Top 280 Mia Sheridan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “All human wisdom is contained in these two words – wait and hope.”

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

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105. “The colorful sky stretched before us – magnificent – as if it was trying to make up for the ugliness of our lives, our constant struggles. And for just the briefest, most fleeting of moments, maybe it did.”

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

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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.”

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111. “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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112. “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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113. “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.”

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

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “Life brings us all to our knees at one point or another.”

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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “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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125. “I want the wolf,” she said softly. “I want you. I don’t need you to hold back.”

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

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “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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130. “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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131. “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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132. “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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133. “Society has set up a system that incentivizes the breeding of degenerates, criminals, and predators.”

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134. “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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135. “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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136. “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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137. “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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138. “Everyone deserves a love story that doesn’t hurt.”

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139. “When we opened our eyes and he stared down at me, smoothing my hair back and tucking a piece behind my ear, his eyes told me everything his voice couldn’t. We communicated a thousand words, without a single one being spoken.”

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140. “I couldn’t have known that Archer Hale existed somewhere in this crazy, crowded world, and that he had been made just for me.”

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141. “As confusing as our situation is, inside it feels like it all makes perfect sense.”

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142. “You’ve kept that fire burning all this time, despite all you’ve lost. There’s nothing stronger than that. Nothing.”

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143. “Did you know the trees speak to each other?” She wrinkled her brow. “No.” “They do. They tell secrets in their roots, those deep, dark places that can’t be seen. I think we’re like that too. We know things deep, deep down, secret things, ancient things, that whisper through us, one to the other. You whispered to me. And I whispered back. You heard, didn’t you?” Her heart beat with love for him, at the sweetness of what he’d said. She nodded. “Yes, I heard.”

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144. “I wanted to believe that love was the rarest of all flowers: it delighted in the sunshine but did not require it to grow and flourish.”

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145. “I am yours. I’ve always been yours. I’ll be yours here on earth, in Elysium. I’ll fight the gods if I have to. I’ll stand before them and declare.”

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146. “Fate is the language God uses to speak to us, baby. It’s up to us to listen, though.”

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147. “Trust yourself. Go with your gut.”

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148. “Sometimes it seemed so much of the beauty in life resulted from the ugly. And how did you make sense of such things? How could you be thankful for something when so much suffering was necessary to bring it to you? Or was that the very thing that defined real beauty–light after darkness?”

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149. “And once they know you love them, they all walk away.”

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150. “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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