Top 280 Mia Sheridan Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Weren’t all of us a compilation of the versions of ourselves we’d once been? Maybe if we were lucky – and insightful – we learned how to extract the good, and leave the bad behind, the parts that hadn’t worked for us, and instead brought nothing but pain. Maybe.”

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102. “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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103. “I don’t think you can judge every man by one or two who let you down.”

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104. “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.”

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

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

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “Hope is like a wisp of smoke on the horizon.”

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112. “All human wisdom is contained in these two words – wait and hope.”

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

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114. “There is such a thin veil between love and hate.”

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115. “You’ve always been so sure about me. Thank you for that gift.”

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116. “And I realized again what a tender soul she was, how she wanted love so badly she had even tried to find it in the ugliest of places, in the first attention she’d ever received from.”

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117. “She just wanted to love him and feel loved in return. Why was that too much to ask? Why must the color of one’s skin determine destiny? Determine wars. Separation. How did the color of one’s skin create such distinction when no one asked to be born what he or she was? Surely God on High hadn’t intended that. Had He?”

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118. “Archer took my hand in his for a brief second and then let it go, saying, I’m sorry. I had heard those words before, but looking at him in that moment, I knew they had never held as much weight as they did when Archer spoke them.”

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119. “I watched with wonder, as she came undone, this woman who had resisted me so stridently, challenged me at every turn, this woman who fascinated me, tested me, pushed me to my limits, and kept me guessing. She was everything to me: my dreams, my weakness, and the person who made me want to be strong. She was the one woman who showed me I mattered, that I was wanted. That I was enough.”

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120. “And listen to them, not with your hurt, but with your heart.”

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121. “Do you know the quality all lions possess, above all else?” “No.” I shake my head. “Loyalty,” he says, smiling and showing me that adorable gap in his teeth. No matter how far apart we are. No matter the distance or time, I will never love anyone except you. Not ever.”

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122. “You’re coming up to the main house and that’s final. I’m laying down the law. I know somewhere in there you’re arguing with me, but I’m not taking no for an answer. You have no choice but to obey me. How do you like that, wife?”

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123. “What’s on your happy list?”

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124. “But what I knew in that moment was that the size of your home, your car, your wallet, doesn’t have one single thing to do with the size of your life.”

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125. “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.”

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126. “You only throw a punch for two reasons: if someone hits you first, or to protect the honor of a woman.”

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127. “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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128. “I whispered against his throat, “You’re beautiful everywhere, Archer.” He let out a breath and leaned his head back very, very slightly, giving me more access, baring his scar to me, a beautiful act of trust.”

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129. “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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130. “If I have to live in Elysium for eternity with someone I don’t love, I thought maybe a kiss from you, even just one, would make it bearable.”

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

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133. “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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134. “It had to be one of the worst hurts in the entire world – being embarrassed by someone who was meant to protect you, not humiliate you.”

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135. “You want my truth, Lydia? I’ll give you this one willingly. I want you, too.” He paused, intensity vibrating between us as my pulse jumped and my breath hitched. “I want you so bloody much I feel like I’ll die from it.”

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136. “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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137. “I want the wolf,” she said softly. “I want you. I don’t need you to hold back.”

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138. “But you did fight. You survived. You fought to live. And you did.”

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139. “I want my home to be your home, my bed to be your bed. I want your nighttime heat to be within arm’s reach.”

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140. “I love you,” she said, nuzzling him back. “All of you. Maybe the wolf most of all, because he was the one who ensured you lived so you could love me when I arrived.”

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141. “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.”

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142. “I heard again and again that my and Archer’s story made people want to be better, to reach out to those no one else saw, to be friends to the friendless, to look at others more closely, and recognize pain when they came across it, and then to do something about it if they were able.”

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143. “He smiled. I still wasn’t used to getting them, and this one made my heart speed up just a little bit. They were like a rare gift that he gave out. I snatched it up and stored it somewhere inside of me.”

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144. “I’m going to take you away from here, to a place where my bed is your bed, and my home is your home. And in that place, I’ll never be more than an arm’s reach from you.”

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145. “Society has set up a system that incentivizes the breeding of degenerates, criminals, and predators.”

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146. “Sometimes an evil man acted as a hero, and sometimes a victim became a tormenter. Criminals exhibited unexpected grace, and honest men had moments of great weakness. There was a strange, terrible, beautiful, complicated universe inside them all where nothing was simply black or white.”

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147. “And then his mouth met mine and the taste of him was all I knew. I moaned, a wordless confession of my desire and complete willingness.”

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148. “As I stood there holding onto him, it occurred to me that not all great acts of courage are obvious to those looking in from the outside. But I saw this moment for what it was–a boy who had never been made to feel that he was wanted anywhere, showing up and asking others to accept him. It made my heart soar with pride for the beautiful act of bravery that was Archer Hale stepping into this small town diner.”

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149. “Since I had met him, it had occurred to me that it would probably be amazing what we could all see and hear if we would just shut our mouths a little more, and stop trying to constantly hear our own voice.”

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

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