Top 280 Mia Sheridan Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You were given this pain because you’re strong enough to endure it.”

— Mia Sheridan

52. “They don’t know who you are, Archer. They have no idea. And they don’t deserve to know. Don’t let their judgment hurt you.”

— Mia Sheridan

53. “Life was full of so many possibilities – why should you spend even one day of it being bored?”

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54. “It was the first time in my life anyone had acted embarrassed in front of me. People had acted embarrassed for me, but never because of something they’d done in front of me. It made me feel like a real person, Bree. It made me feel like something about me mattered.”

— Mia Sheridan

55. “But she made me want to become the man she deserved. She made me braver, and stronger. Because of her, I wanted to be the best version of myself. And that, I think, is what love does, if it’s really love.”

— Mia Sheridan

56. “Because the problem is, you can’t shut off one emotion without shutting off all your emotions. You have to feel the pain if you’re going to feel the joy.”

— Mia Sheridan

57. “I felt broken, humiliated, confused, and helpless. And it didn’t help that I knew I was barely tolerable to look at.”

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58. “You are my dream,” I whisper to her in the dark. “You are my every dream come true.”

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59. “Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt. I don’t want to lose more than I already have either, but isn’t it worth it? Isn’t it worth giving it a chance?”

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60. “It’s not easy. It takes work, and faith, and a whole heart full of hope. It takes letting the pain in, too. Because the problem is, you can’t shut off one emotion without shutting off all your emotions. You have to feel the pain if you’re going to feel the joy. It’s just the way it works. So no, it’s not easy, but it’s possible.”

— Mia Sheridan

61. “He smiled back and put his lips against mine, mouthing, “I love you, too,” against my mouth, as if he was breathing love into my body.”

— Mia Sheridan

62. “I wanted to hurt her like she was hurting me each time I looked at her. I wanted to mark her, claim her, let everyone know that she belonged to me and only me.”

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63. “There’s never been a choice. And I know it must be hard for you to believe in my love after everything I’ve done that’s hurt you, but it’s true. God, it’s true. And if you’ll give me another chance to prove it to you, I’ll do anything. Anything.”

— Mia Sheridan

64. “Someday, when I’m living my dreams, I’m going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I’m going to be thankful for them.”

— Mia Sheridan

65. “I want to be able to love you, more than I fear losing you, and I don’t know how.”

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66. “Half agony, half hope. Half pain, half ecstasy. Half grief, half joy. Half my downfall, half my savior.”

— Mia Sheridan

67. “Acadia “Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” Homer, The Iliad.”

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68. “I’ve wanted to taste them and suck on them since I walked in on you the other day,” I admitted, my lips against her skin as I kissed the other breast. “I’ve wondered if they taste as sweet as they look.”

— Mia Sheridan

69. “For just a moment in time, we were just a boy and a girl, running and laughing in the rain on our wedding day.”

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70. “It was as if my body was his instrument and he learned to play it so perfectly that the melody vibrated within my very soul. Not only because of the pleasure he brought, but because he cared so much to know every little thing about me.”

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71. “I’m going to take it slow this time. We’re going to burn every stroke, every touch, and every kiss into our skin so when we’re back together, it will only then just be cooling. While we’re apart, we’ll still be keeping each other warm.”

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72. “Anytime she was in the room, it was like the whole place was bathed in her warmth.” He tilted his head, looking thoughtful for a second. “Does that sound like an exaggeration? Maybe overly dramatic, poetic words from a boy who has loved her his whole life?”

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73. “Happily ever after doesn’t mean a lifetime of perfection. I don’t think anyone believes that happily ever after means there are no unhappy days, even unhappy years. It means loving forever, despite all the many reasons it’s easier not to.”

— Mia Sheridan

74. “But no one could fix anyone else. We could only fix ourselves.”

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75. “I’m in love with Haven Torres. Deeply, miserably, completely in love with her.”

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76. “For a couple hours, I was a kid, doing something simple that I had never done when I was actually a kid. For a short time, I lost myself in doing something for no other reason than that it was fun.”

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77. “Eden, I vow this. My heart is yours. My life is yours. My body is yours. My art, my dreams. You own each and every part of me.”

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78. “It’s not the things you do with love and good intentions that you end up regretting. It’s the things you don’t do that you have to live with.”

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79. “He looked like every hero in every fairy tale I’d ever dreamed come to life. And, God, I wanted to believe in heroes again. But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero.”

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80. “I think that when enough time has passed, when you’ve survived that which you didn’t imagine you could, there’s a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I’m living my dreams, I’m going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I’m going to be thankful for them. – TF.”

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81. “We must never choose safety over right. Safety is the blanket under which cowards sleep. Safety smothers hope and extinguishes all fight.”

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82. “Guilt at turning a blind eye, at participating, even by inaction, in something he’d innately known was wrong.”

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83. “Chiron’s wound symbolizes the transformative power of suffering–how personal pain, both physical and emotional, can become the source of great moral and spiritual strength.”

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84. “We had talked about taking a bus to Cincinnati on your eighteenth birthday. It was the only connection any of the three of us had to anywhere and we knew we needed to leave town. He probably didn’t even have time to tell you that plan.”

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85. “I swear to you, my beautiful, sweet love, everyone deserves a love story that doesn’t hurt.”

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86. “Never fret, my love, the universe always balances the scales. Her ways may be mysterious, but they are always just.” Isabelle Dallaire, “Gram.”

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87. “You had to appreciate the small things in life when the big things made you want to curl up in the corner in the fetal position and give up.”

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88. “What’s on your happy list?”

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89. “I learned that every choice has an outcome and I learned that holding on to bitterness is a poison that eats away at you from the inside.”

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90. “It’s always been you, and no one else.”

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91. “I love you, I love you, I love you,” I whispered, smiling, trying to make this moment a happy one. He smiled back and put his lips against mine, mouthing, I love you, too, as if he were breathing love into my body.”

— Mia Sheridan

92. “If this is the last piece of heaven I get before I’m dragged down to hell, then I’ll gladly take it.”

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93. “I knew from experience that people didn’t change because they were begged to do so. People changed only when they made the choice to change on their own.”

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94. “The thing about Maya was it was like that extra chromosome was filled to bursting with love. So filled up, it wa constantly leaking out of her in some shouty way, and she just couldn’t keep it insinde her. It hat to come out in some way, shape or form.”

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95. “Her father had wiped her tears and told her she couldn’t always cry for the world or she’d be crying all the time. “But, Daddy,” she’d said, “if I don’t let my tears out, won’t I drown inside?”

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96. “We had each reacted differently in a moment of terror, and yet we both still hurt. Maybe there was no right or wrong, no black or white, only a thousand shades of grey when it came to pain and what we each held ourselves responsible for.”

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97. “I’ve found that people say what suits them in the moment. Doesn’t always mean it can be counted on.”

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98. “Life brings us all to our knees at one point or another.”

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99. “It was true what I’d once said about the stars – some things are seen more clearly in light... and some things are seen more clearly in darkness. Because somewhere in the dark of the night, Calder pulled me close to him and we agreed in ways both spoken and unspoken that the world was ugly and broken, and love was ridiculously dangerous and absurdly unsafe... and that we would love anyway.”

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100. “Heaven showed up in small, stolen moments. And he had learned to recognize them for what they were. To pause, to hold them close and breathe them in as they filtered slowly, slowly through his soul. And for those tender slips of precious time, the broken world was only perfect.”

— Mia Sheridan