Window Shopping Quotes

“Don’t let
the bow tie fool you, Stella. I’m not always nice,” he says, a deep burr in
his voice. “When the situation calls for it, I can be downright rough.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Don’t trade emotional currency with strangers. You will never get a refund.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“It's weird. When you're younger, you think you know everything. Then you get older and live in constant awareness of how little you actually know and understand.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“A wise woman once told me it’s not my job to teach people to be happy.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Do you want some proof I can be more than a nice guy, sweetheart?”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“This girl. I want to run away with her. Elope. Go on safaris. Sink down to the bottom of the ocean holding her hand.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“This butt is courtesy of baked goods and there’s no getting around it—that fact or my ass.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Thinking about picking out side plates with Stella has sent me into the throes of my best orgasm in recent memory, my knees nearly buckling from the monumental rush...”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“I’m about as approachable and welcoming as a vampire bat.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Right away, I’m hit with a prickle of guilt over this morning’s activities. Not only did I fantasize about her body, I had the nerve to pick out dinnerware without her input.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Is this like a strange kink? Instead of flashing people, you just go around accosting people with bizarre tales?”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Christ. My cock is thickening faster than whisked gravy over a high heat.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“first time. Or their first time watching Star Wars or Twilight or Harry Potter.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“You don’t get locked up somewhere for four years and leave without a few soul scrapes.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“A loved one's vote of confidence goes a long way. It can lead to discovering more of your own.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“This man smiles constantly. I hate him.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Nothing in my life has felt as amazing as you, either. Nothing.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“I have the heartache version of a man cold.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Being something to you means being less to myself.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“It’s like we’ve got a fresh spiral notebook from the drugstore and this time we’re going to use good handwriting the whole way through. Not just on the first page.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“breathe,”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“He’s a salmon swimming upstream. He’s Sunday morning swooping in like a hero when you woke up thinking it was Monday.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“I never fully understood the human fascination with butts, but I get it now. I’m a believer. At least in this particular set of taut, brawny buns. He should enter it into some kind of booty pageant. A twinge of jealousy catches me off guard. Oh great, now I’m jealous of the imaginary judging panel of a butt contest. My life has taken a serious turn.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“There is something about revealing art that is so personal, so vulnerable.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“she’s not all in. Yet. She’s window-shopping, while I’ve already bought out the whole damn store.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“It’s like someone tossed a match into a puddle of kerosene.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“He’s maneuvered me to a place where I have a voice and don’t feel invisible.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“I knew I'd end up here again, feeling like I'd melt unless I kiss you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“-Una vez que te tuve, no pude dejarte ir.

-No iba a irme.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Sometimes people just aren’t in a place to receive happiness, you know? And it’s nothing you’re doing wrong. It’s just that they don’t want to feel it. Or they don’t recognize happiness when it’s handed to them, so they take a foreign feeling and turn it into something that makes them comfortable. They wouldn’t know themselves if they stopped obsessing over their own shortcomings or their past mistakes . . . and just let you in. They don’t know how. But it can’t be your job to teach them, okay? You get to take advantage of your own happiness. You’re allowed to keep it if they don’t want it.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping