Top 280 Mia Sheridan Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I realized that people’s reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me.”

— Mia Sheridan

52. “No matter who we are, we have to take the hand we’re dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway... to have faith that there’s a purpose to the journey we’re on... And try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks.”

— Mia Sheridan

53. “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

54. “I suffered, yes, but I realized I would happily suffer for you, because that’s what loving someone is. Willing to do anything for them, willing to make any sacrifice, suffer so they don’t have to. I loved you then, and I still love you now.”

— Mia Sheridan

55. “Watch what people do when they think no one’s watching, love. That’s how you’ll know who they really are.”

— 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. “Sometimes we wore such hurtful, limiting labels in this life, whether they’d been assigned by others or by ourselves. I’d felt damaged and ruined once, but I didn’t anymore. I was still a work in progress, but I wasn’t a victim. I was a survivor. – Gabriel.”

— Mia Sheridan

58. “There’s always going to be the chance that that I could lose you in this lifetime. There’s nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss. But in that moment, I decided I was more interested in focusing on the great privilege I’ve been given in having you at all.”

— Mia Sheridan

59. “I turned her around to face me and brought my hands up, Someday, I said, when we’re old and gray, I’m going to look at you lying in bed beside me, just like this, and I’m going to look into your eyes and know that it’s only ever been you. And that is going to be the great joy of my life, Bree Prescott.”

— Mia Sheridan

60. “I believe everyone deserves grace, Clara. What you will have to ask yourself is if you should offer that grace from near or from afar. Offering grace does not mean offering your heart. That, my darlin’, must be protected at all cost.”

— Mia Sheridan

61. “You get my heart, Eloise. You. And, God, I hope you want it. But if you don’t, I still won’t regret giving it to you.”

— Mia Sheridan

62. “Archer had this way of doing things that was so sexy and supremely male, it made my heart skip a beat at how naturally and unknowingly he did them. He would lean a hip against the counter in a certain way, or stand in a doorway holding on to the moulding above him as he watched me – things he had no idea affected me the way they did. It was just him being him, and somehow that made it even more appealing.”

— Mia Sheridan

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

— Mia Sheridan

64. “I try to believe that something beautiful can result from something ugly, and that there will come a time when I’ll get to see what that is.”

— Mia Sheridan

65. “There has only ever been you. There. Will. Only. Ever. Be. You.”

— Mia Sheridan

66. “Everyone deserves a love story that doesn’t hurt.”

— Mia Sheridan

67. “People always said things like, “Everything will work out,” or, “That won’t happen.” But what about when things didn’t work out? Or when the unthinkable did happen? You had to walk around with the knowledge that life could sweep the rug out from under you at any moment. It could, because it had.”

— Mia Sheridan

68. “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.”

— Mia Sheridan

69. “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

70. “Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt.”

— Mia Sheridan

71. “Hope is like a wisp of smoke on the horizon.”

— Mia Sheridan

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?”

— Mia Sheridan

73. “She learned the same lesson I had learned though – if someone is hell-bent on self-destruction, there isn’t a lot you can do to change their mind.”

— Mia Sheridan

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

— Mia Sheridan

75. “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?”

— Mia Sheridan

76. “It’s meant to strip you bare in order to heal. Be brave enough not to fight it. Surrender, my boy. Let go. For just once, have the courage to let go.”

— Mia Sheridan

77. “Sometimes my life felt so small. And I had to wonder why those of us who were given small lives, still had to feel pain so big.”

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

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79. “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.”

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80. “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.”

— Mia Sheridan

81. “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.”

— Mia Sheridan

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

— Mia Sheridan

83. “He loves me, my heart sang. And I love him, and he owns me, body and soul. I don’t care about all the other stuff. All of it will work itself out. And in that moment I believed it with every fiber of my being.”

— Mia Sheridan

84. “Maybe I needed to feel safe and accepted in my pain before I was set free from this daily misery.”

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85. “You listen to your heart, Jack. And you listen to the voice that comes to you when you close your eyes. You’ll know it because it will be something between a feeling and a whisper. And that voice? Jack, if your heart is good like yours is, that voice never, ever lies.”

— Mia Sheridan

86. “We laughed and something inside me clicked into place. It was as if the mix of colors on the canvas was finally perfect for the picture I wanted so desperately to create.”

— Mia Sheridan

87. “In my experience, the handsome ones thought they were God’s gift to womankind, and that it was their moral duty to spread themselves far and wide.”

— Mia Sheridan

88. “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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89. “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

90. “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.”

— Mia Sheridan

91. “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.”

— Mia Sheridan

92. “I feel your lips on me, Eden. When I close my eyes, when I’m awake. I taste you. You are my first breath, and my last. I feel you.”

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93. “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

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

— Mia Sheridan

96. “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

97. “I love you, Morning Glory. It’s always been your heart that kept me alive. Your love. Your sweetness. I painted you to keep you alive, and that’s what kept me breathing, too.”

— Mia Sheridan

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

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100. “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.”

— Mia Sheridan