Top 30 Madeline Sheehan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There will always be a reason why you meet people. Either you need them to change your life or you’re the one that will change theirs. – Angel Flonis Harefa.”

— Madeline Sheehan

2. “It wasn’t easy. Nothing worth doing ever is. And love is worth everything.”

— Madeline Sheehan

3. “Life may not always go the way you’d planned, you may not have the perfect family, you may not be the most beautiful, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make the best of what you do have.”

— Madeline Sheehan

4. “Everything has beauty. Even the ugly. Because without the ugly, there would be no beauty. Because without beauty, we would not survive our pain, our sorrow and our suffering.”

— Madeline Sheehan

5. “To always having someone to rely on, a person in your corner to fight for you no matter the reason, no matter the cost. To having more than a friend, more than a sister, but a soul mate. To the hope they give us, the strength they provide us, and the unconditional love they empower us with. To best friends.”

— Madeline Sheehan

6. “I wasn’t always broken; we are all born pure. It is our journey that burdens us and leads us astray. Our mistakes that beat us down and cover us in guilt and shame, burying us a little more with each successive hardship. It is up to us to dig ourselves out, to come to terms with our faults, to embrace not only our imperfections but those of the ones we love, and to once again find the path we strayed from.”

— Madeline Sheehan

7. “From chaos, the strongest sort of love is usually born.”

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8. “Ripper was my rainstorm, my skin-drenching frenzy, where you couldn’t tell right from left, where all you could feel was the phenomenon exploding throughout your body, feverishly burning through you even as it pleasurably cooled.”

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9. “There is an old story passed down through the generations of a Native American grandfather counseling his young grandson, telling him that he has two wolves living inside of him, constantly fighting each other for dominance. One is the wolf of peace, love, and kindness. The other represents fear, greed, and hatred. The boy asks, ‘Which wolf will win, Grandfather?’ and the wise old man replies, ‘Whichever one I feed.”

— Madeline Sheehan

10. “The difference between a self-induced orgasm and an orgasm given by a man is like comparing a rainy day and a rain storm. Rain was a sure thing, you knew exactly what you were going to get: a clean and crisp, both sweet and refreshing experience. But rainstorms were unpredictable, they were riddled with surprises, messy and wet; they were something you had no control over.”

— Madeline Sheehan

11. “Babe,” he whispered. “Can’t look at me like that and expect me to be keepin’ it reeled in.”

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12. “Fuckin’-A,” Ripper said, backing away, looking disgusted. “Keep your Sparky Marky and the Spunky Funk stories to your fuckin’ self.”

— Madeline Sheehan

13. “I am not an old lady.” “You in Frankie’s bed?” “Nope,” I shot back. “Frankie’s in mine.”

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14. “Eva shrugged. “Take a look around you, Cage. From chaos, the strongest sort of love is usually born.”

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15. “She was undoubtedly trying to set me up with one of her husband’s friends again. And while they were all nice guys, which seemed to be my biggest problem with them, they were pushovers, metrosexual girly men that did nothing for me except make me angry and want to slap them across the face with a lacy thong and ask them what they’d done with their balls.”

— Madeline Sheehan

16. “At the end, we should all go back to the beginning, if only to remind ourselves that we once lived.”

— Madeline Sheehan

17. “And then I’m gonna fix it again and keep on fixin’ it until the bad stops outweighin’ the good, until there ain’t nothin’ but good left.”

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18. “ZZ laughed. “I’m fine, baby. It’s worth it, anyway, if it means I’m gonna get what I want.” Me. He wanted me. He’d taken a beating just for the opportunity to ask me out.”

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19. “That was my problem. I didn’t have one. I’d spent my entire life surrounded by problems, wishing and aching for things I knew would never happen. But they had. And now my poor mind didn’t know what to do with itself.”

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20. “Ripper shook a cigarette out of his pack and pulled it out with his teeth. He lit it and took a long drag. “Throw me a bone, yeah?” he said as smoke poured from his nostrils. “I ain’t a mind reader.”

— Madeline Sheehan

21. “I want tonight to last forever,” I whispered brokenly. Because it had to last forever, or at least for the next ten years.”

— Madeline Sheehan

22. “I like you, Ripper,” she whispered, sliding her arms over his shoulders, threading her fingers through the hair at his nape, causing a ripple of tiny, pleasant tingles across his skin and a warmth inside of him, the likes of which he’d never felt before. “Yeah, beautiful girl,” he whispered. “I’m feelin’ you too.”

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23. “Cause when it comes to you, darlin’, I got no fuckin’ sense. You fuckin’ pull me in until you’re all I can fuckin’ see. Suddenly, I can’t fuckin’ breathe, but I don’t care ‘cause you, babe, you’re you. And I ain’t ever met anyone as fuckin’ perfect as you.”

— Madeline Sheehan

24. “But when it did, when the first American fell to his knees, the government was ill prepared for the fallout and the sickness spread like wildfire.”

— Madeline Sheehan

25. “You’re still feelin’ me, Teacup.”

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26. “One second they were glaring, and the next they were kissing. And wrestling. Wrestle kissing?”

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27. “Girls are stupid like that. Falling in love with what they can never have – the untouchable, the seemingly larger than life, the unattainable.”

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28. “Ellie would think back on that moment and remember that Dirty hadn’t so much as flinched when she’d touched him. In fact, he’d never shied away from her touch again. Not once, from that day forward.”

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29. “And it was. It was enough because he was enough. It was enough because I was enough for him. My faults, his faults, and all. We were enough.”

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30. “Right. Like he was going somewhere. Pulling his phone out of his cut, he called his wife. “Hey, baby,” Eva sniffled. “You okay?” “No,” he said softly. “I fuckin’ need you.” “Five minutes,” she said without hesitation. “And you got me.”

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31. “First order of business,” Ripper said dryly. “Does Dirty need a new name?”

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32. “Love, they say, has the potential to kill a person if they aren’t careful.”

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33. “We’d all lived through our own horrors, and whether they showed on our skin or not, we all bore scars, didn’t we?”

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34. “Don’t see how,” he muttered. “I’m always the voice of fuckin’ reason in this circus.”

— Madeline Sheehan