Secretly Yours Quotes

“Bumpier journeys lead to better destinations. You. Me. We’re the best destination of all.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Hallie, listen to me. You don’t make messes. You follow your heart, and your heart is so beautiful, I can’t believe it was mine.” He seemed to brace himself. “Put me out of my misery and tell me it’s still mine. Please.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“You’re still not going to yell at her anymore. If she’s upset, I’m upset. I don’t think you want that.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“I can’t be expected to make promises under the influence of pasta and wine!”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“One dog started woofing and his buddies joined in solidarity, announcing the entrance of their queen.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Are we all constantly fighting that change to something new and unfamiliar? Is that why, no matter what we do in our personal or professional lives, somehow it’s never done with full confidence? There’s always the fear of being wrong. Or maybe we’re afraid to be right and make progress, because that means change. And moving forward is hard, like you said.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“I want to feel you forgive me. I want to taste it in your mouth.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“I wonder if I’m who I’m meant to be or if I’m just too distracted to keep evolving.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Owen has to go. There was already a crowd assembled, wanting to be entertained for the night. Why not make it a murder mystery?”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“The kind of person who wants to be better and sees their own faults is someone I want to spend time with.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Time is change. But letting it move you forward is hard.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“I’d say the one thing you can expect in life are thwarted plans,” said Lorna. “Fate keeps its own schedule. But sometimes fate drops a present in our lap, and we realize that if everything we’d arranged ourselves had gone according to plan, the gift from fate never would have arrived.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Women had to make moves on men these days, or everyone on planet earth would be single.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Makes me wonder how long you could make me . . .” He dragged that bottom lip through his teeth while seemingly transfixed by the pulse on her neck. “Lose track of time.” That pulse sped up like a sports car on an open road. “I have no idea,” she murmured. He took a step closer, then another, a muscle bunching in his cheek. “Hours, Hallie? Days?” A raw sound ground up from his throat, one hand lifting to run a single finger down the side of her neck. “Weeks.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Unless I’m as close as possible to that smile, that voice, your . . . sunlight.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“As I’m writing this, I’m starting to wonder if the longer we fight change in ourselves, the less time we have to live as better people. Or at least more self-aware people. I propose that we both do something that scares us this week.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Rebecca was always saying that. ‘Lorna, what’s meant to be will always find a way.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“If I regret one thing about not having a direct hand in making wine at this vineyard . . .” He leaned in, letting out a long, heavy breath into her hair. “It’s that I can’t watch you drink a glass of Vos wine and know my efforts are sitting on that tongue.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“How was the wine?” Hallie asked, feeling winded. Another one bites the dust. “Robust, with a betrayal aftertaste, I’m guessing.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“I’d dim her glow. I’d change her, and I would hate myself for it.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“I know every little jiggle of this body. They’ve taken turns making my cock hard.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“But he won’t find my letter that way.” “You’ll have to tell him in person.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“You’ve got to let those beautiful tits out and deal with me, don’t you?”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“I want to . . . date you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“God almighty, the way the material of her shirt stretched over those generous mounds would keep him awake tonight.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“But he found himself wondering what it might be like to fill that role for Hallie. In another life, obviously. A full-time giver of Hallie smiles.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“Your grandmother sounds like someone worth missing.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“When a familiar face stepped into her path on the sidewalk, Hallie almost collapsed with relief. “Without asking me any follow-up questions, can I hide in your kitchen?”

“Fuck sake, what have you done now?” asked her friend Lavinia”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“You were great. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. They say kids are drawn to authenticity. You really nailed the genuine vibe, calling them disgusting and all.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours

“That’s how we know each other.” He eagerly traced her features with his gaze. “We went for a walk together in the vineyard. The night my sister threw that party.”
― Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours