Getaway Girl Quotes

“Unlock the door or I’ll call a locksmith. You’re going to be comfortable in my home, goddammit.” Her mouth wobbles and she breaks into a laugh. “What is this? Aggressive southerning?”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“What are you looking at?” “Just checking to see if your milkshake brought all the boys to the yard.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“You have to admit, you’re a little clumsy.” I gasp. “Only when scary politicians leap out of the shadows.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“used to get excited about dressing up or adding a pink streak to my hair. Now I have Pasta Thursdays.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Running for mayor is time consuming. That’s why I’ve never done it.” My laugh sneaks up on me. “Oh, is that why?”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“I can’t get over the view. I spent most of the night sitting on the third-floor balcony watching the boats.” Don’t sing to them or they’ll crash on the rocks. The thought catches me off guard, but it sticks. I can picture her up there, dark hair flying around in the wind, beckoning to passing sailors. Will I ever get to see her up there? “You like the house?” I rasp. She shrugs one shoulder. And coming from Addison, that’s a resounding yes. “It reminds me of you.” Why am I holding my breath? “Does it?” “Mmmhmm. Old-fashioned and charming…” She squints at my backside. “With a big old kitchen.” The heat that weaves up my neck is humiliating, but I cough my way through it. I’m not sure if my usual embarrassment is at play, or if I’m remembering for the thousandth time how hard I came when she used that damn finger on me. Was it supposed to make me shake like a damn teenager? “It’s not polite to make ass jokes about your tour guide.” “Oh come on. You know I love that thing.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Lungs. They don’t make them like they used to. Mine are clearly malfunctioning.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Did you get a haircut?” “No.” In my periphery, I see her dimple pop. “I got all of them cut.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“My father taught me a very important lesson when I was a young boy. When a man doesn’t know how to fix a situation with a woman, he best get himself to a florist.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Is it the devil horns? I thought I hid them better.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Impossibilities don’t exist when my whole being can be taken over by hope.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“I really look forward to. Mostly because there’s day drinking involved and when Virginia gets tipsy, she tells us stories about Elijah as a child. Turns out he had an imaginary friend named Albert. A zebra. And Virginia used to overhear Elijah asking Albert if he thought his butt looked big.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Addison is a beautiful woman. That’s an understatement, actually. When I was a young boy, I overheard my grandfather describe a woman, saying, “That one could end friendships, start wars and make a glutton suck in his gut.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“My heart is trying to beat inside a jar of honey. It’s all slow and sugary and thick.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Don't smile when I'm frowning at you.'

'I can't help it. It confuses me, too.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“You have my heart. You have my soul. And you're the first and last person to ever have either one. I loved you first. And last. I've only got this feeling for you. No one else. Never.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Getaway Girl!” shouts a photographer, lifting his camera. “Over here!” “You’re going to have to come up with another name for her!” Elijah calls back. “I’m never letting her get away again.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“I’ll hold you every day for the rest of my life,” I say, my voice hoarse. “Or it won’t be worth living, Addison. Don’t tell me I shouldn’t hold you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“You own this city now, Mr. Mayor. Right now, that includes what’s under my dress.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“Yeah, I am. She’s the one thing in my life that hasn’t been planned.”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl

“I’m losing my mind, Addison.” I wrap her hair around my fists and lift her head away from my lap. “This is what it’s like to have a man obsessed with you. Do you like it?”
― Tessa Bailey, Getaway Girl