Hook, Line, and Sinker Quotes

“You can’t live life worrying about what people will think. You’ll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I could tell by the way you looked at her, she was something real special.” “How did I look at her?” He was afraid to find out. “Ah, son. Like a summer day showing up after a hundred years of winter.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Doesn’t feel like enough to say I love you at this point.”
“Our love is always enough. It’s always more than enough.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Just get off the bus somewhere safe and wait for me, all right? I fucking love you. I love you. And I'm sorry you fell in love with an idiot. I'm...Remember Seattle, you said we've been trying this whole time. Since last summer. To be in a relationship. I didn't fully understand at the time, but I do now. There was never going to be a life away from you, because, Jesus, that's no life at all. You, Hannah. Are my life. I love you and I'm coming home, so please, babe. Please. Will you just wait for me? I'm sorry.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“You make me feel like I’m in the exact right place.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I've never even had you, and your body haunts mine.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Hannah had a playlist consisting of 308 love songs and not one of them could describe this moment accurately. Not even close.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Do you ever get so happy, you can barely stand it?”
“Yes.”
“With you? All the time.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Hannah, I can't answer what I don't know," he said through stiff lips. "What do you want me to say? Do I want to fuck you? Yes. Oh my god, I" -- his eyes closed briefly, those fisherman's hands flexing on the steering wheel-- "I want you underneath me so bad that I can't lie in bed without already feeling you there. I've never even had you, and your body haunts mine.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I didn’t know what right felt like until you,” he choked out. “I’m holding on to the good you give me. I’m holding on to you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“If you’re laughing with them, they can’t laugh at you, right?”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I’m far from immune to you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I had it bad for you. If the convention didn't make it obvious, I thought for sure the Fleetwood Mac album would do it. I've got it so bad for you, Hannah. Really, really bad. I tried to keep you out of here. But you won't go. You're never going to go. You just won't.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“But knowing he could help, knowing he could do something to potentially make her happy? That was like holding the keys to a kingdom.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“But you can't take the bad lessons you learned and apply them to every good thing that comes your way. Because there's nothing about what we have. It's really, really good. You're wonderful, and I love you. Okay, you stupid idiot? So when you've done some thinking and pulled your head out of your stubborn ass, come and find me. You're worth the wait.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Mmmm. I like that idea. W-we can find out who we’ll become together. Without everyone around all the t-time.”
“Whoever we become together, Hannah,”
“I’m yours and you’re mine. So it’s always going to be right.”
“I didn’t know what right felt like until you,” he choked out.
“I’m holding on to the good you give me. I’m holding on to you.”
“I’m hanging on to you, too, Fox Thornton,”
“Never letting go.”
“I’m in for the good, bad, and everything in between, Hannah.”
“Decades. A lifetime. I’m in.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Jesus, Hannah," he whispered in a rough voice. "Do you ever get so happy, you can barely stand it?"
"Yes." She reached up and cradled his jaw. "With you? All the time.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“You can't live life worrying about what people will think. You'll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy. With her. And no one else, especially the ones wagging their tongues, are going to be there to console you”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“There was never going to be a life away from you, because, Jesus, that's no life at all. You, Hannah. Are my life. I love you and I'm coming home, so please, babe. Please. Will you just wait for me? I'm sorry.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Hannah was the total opposite. When she decided to commit herself to someone or something, she went in one thousand percent. Loyalty to the people she cared about hummed in her blood. Loyalty made her Hannah.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Like a summer day showing up after a hundred years of winter.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Maybe, like the ocean, he could evolve.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“You’re a surprise, Hannah. How could I hate them?” He cleared his throat hard. “Even familiar . . . you’re a constant surprise.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“You get this expression on your face when you listen to music, like you're trying to climb inside it. Right now, it looks like the door is locked and you can't get in.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“He'd never met anyone in his life that gave a shit as hard as Hannah. For other people.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Decades. A lifetime. I’m in.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“What is it that you love so much about them?"
"The fact that someone thought about me, I guess. Wanted me to feel special. I bet you hate them, don't you?"
"You're a surprise, Hannah. How could I hate them? Even familar...you're a constant surprise.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“You can't live life worrying about what other people will think.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Fox, listen to me. I don’t care how many different beds you’ve been in. I know you belong in mine.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“She was Eve in the Garden of Eden, and she'd just taken a bite from the apple.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker