It Happened One Summer Quotes

“I’ll love you until my heart gives out. I’ll be your man for a thousand years. Longer if I’m allowed.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“When I hug you?” Fuck. His heart was turning over and over like a car engine. “My hugs are your recharging station?”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“You can be as high maintenance as you want, honey. But I'm the only one who does the maintenance.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“It won’t let me just use my own name as my username.”
“Yeah, probably because about nine hundred Brendan Taggarts joined before you.”
“So what should I use?”
“CaptainCutie69,” Fox spat out.
“IGotCrabs4U,” Deke supplied.
“SlipperyWhenWet.”
Brendan stared. “You’re all fired. Go home.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Constant work, Piper? No. You misunderstand me.” He tipped her chin up and kissed her mouth. “When the reward is as perfect as you, as perfect as this, the work is a fucking honor.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“If this woman tacked the word “please” onto any request, he would find a way to fulfill it. Build me a palace, please. How many floors, baby?”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“I can be in a room full of people that I know and still not feel like I belong”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Her soul was made of musical notes.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“You can wrap me as tight as you want around that little finger, but I won’t play games about what this is. Get me, Piper?”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“but more important, she was learning to be kind to herself. Learning to love herself, just as she was.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“This girl. He’d be keeping her. There was no way around it.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Brendan cleared his throat hard. “What does ‘follow’ mean?”
“Don’t,” Deke rushed to say. “Don’t press it.”
His thumb was already on the way back up. “Too late.”
All three of his crew members surged to their feet. “No. Brendan, don’t tell me you just tapped the blue button,” Sanders groaned, hands on his mop of red hair. “She’s going to see you followed her. She’s going to know you internet stalked her.”
“Can’t I just unfollow now?” Brendan started to tap again.
Fox lunged forward. “No! No, that’s even worse. If she already noticed you followed her, she’s just going to think you’re playing games.”
“Jesus. I’m deleting the whole thing,” Brendan said, throwing the offending device onto the dashboard.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“The captain is a little sensitive about Piper,” Fox explained, still wearing that shit-eating grin. “He doesn’t know what to do with his confusing man feelings.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Eh.” She waved a hand. “There are thousands of me there.”
Brendan snorted at her joke. And then he realized she was serious.
“Piper, there is nobody like you.”
She smiled like she was humoring him...
He pulled the car onto the side of the road, slammed on the brakes, and threw it into park. “Did you hear me?” He reached over to tilt up her chin. “There is nobody like you.”
“Why are you getting so worked up?”
“Because I . . .thought I was an intuitive man. A smart man. But I keep finding out new ways I’m flying blind when it comes to something so important. You. You are important.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Trying to figure out what to do when no one is watching. And wondering if maybe that’s the stuff that actually matters.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“That sparkle was positivity and life and promise of better things, and she always, always had it, glowing within the blue of her irises, lighting up the room.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Glad you like it."
"No. I love it."
He grunted. "You ready?"
"Ready for what?"
"For me to ask you to dinner yet."
Her pulse tripped all over itself. Got up. Tripped again. "Did you think you needed to build a pergola to convince me?"
"No. I, uh..." He tossed down the rag, shoved his hands into his pockets. "I needed something to keep me busy while I worked up the nerve to ask.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“thrust. “Came here to be neighborly, Piper? Is there anything neighborly about the way I’m giving you this cock?”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Piper, I don’t just go putting my arms around girls.” She paused in the doorway. Looked back. “What does that mean?” He gave in to just a touch of temptation, tucking a wind-tangled strand of hair behind her ear. Soft. “It means I’ll be around.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Wow. A vaginal orgasm and a psychological breakthrough in the same day. You must be tapped.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“His lips twitched, his hand rubbing circles in the center of her back. "You want to dance some more, or can I bring you home?"

"Where is home?"

"With me.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“And when her face transformed with pure joy and she waved enthusiastically, Brendan knew he loved her.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“God must have been busy answering someone else’s prayers.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Maybe she should try to put her phone down more often. Or at least take in the real moments when she could.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“He'd ridiculed her at the outset. Now he wanted to fight off anything that made her sad.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“She’d come to the hospital. In his clothes. Did she realize tears were spilling down her cheeks and she was shaking, head to toe? No, she didn’t. Based on her flirty shoulder shrugs and attempts to wink, she thought she was playing it cool, and it made his chest burn. This girl. He’d be keeping her. There was no way around it.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Women are protective. Nurturing. A boat is given the name of a woman in the hopes that she'll protect the crew. And hopefully put a good word in the other important woman in our lives, the ocean.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Can you be mad at me while I kiss you, baby? It’s all I’ve wanted to do for the last two weeks.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“B-Brendan.” Her chest ached almost too much to speak. “When I was falling in love with you, I was falling in love with Westport at the same time. That is my home. Our home. And I don’t want to be anywhere else. I knew it as soon as I got here tonight. Nothing was right. Nothing was right without you.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“How soft she’d be beneath him, how high maintenance she’d probably be in the sack and how he’d deliver. Again and again, until she wrecked his back with her fingernails.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer