Top 280 Mia Sheridan Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “Maybe there was no right or wrong, no black or white, only a thousand shades of gray when it came to pain.”

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153. “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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154. “I try to close my eyes and believe that even though I can’t see the other side right then, and the side I’m looking at is ugly and muddled, there’s a masterpiece that’s being woven out of all the knots and loose strings. 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.”

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155. “It’s not easy,” Ruben said, sitting up on the couch and gesturing to his own marred face. “Wearing your mistakes and regrets on the outside where others can judge them. But, man, the problem is not that others judge you harshly, it’s that you believe what they say.”

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156. “What was sexier on a man than great abs and a heart full of hidden torment? They should bottle it and sell it by the truckloads. Or perhaps write a book: “Abs and Hidden Torment: A Man’s Guide to Bagging Babes.” I would have laughed if I didn’t feel so much like crying.”

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157. “He was so beautiful. I felt something catch in my chest and knew it was just him, taking my breath away.”

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158. “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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159. “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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160. “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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161. “And I thought to myself, even though life could be horrifying and earth-shattering, terrible and tragic, it was also filled with moments of breathtaking beauty. And sometimes you just had to laugh.”

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162. “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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163. “If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can.”

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164. “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?”

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165. “Sometimes the beginning of love is just a simple matter of proximity.”

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166. “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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167. “How do you know what to change, and what to hold on to?” I asked. Were there parts of me that were good and valuable, or did I scrap it all and start completely from scratch? And if that was the case, how in the hell did one go about doing that? Especially in a small town where stories became legend, and every buried secret eventually rose to the surface?”

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168. “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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169. “When it came to you, I noticed everything. I fell halfway in love with you before we ever spoke a word.”

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170. “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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171. “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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172. “And once they know you love them, they all walk away.”

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173. “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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174. “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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175. “As confusing as our situation is, inside it feels like it all makes perfect sense.”

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176. “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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177. “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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178. “Don’t let me destroy this.”

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

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181. “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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182. “Love can’t just disappear when this life is through, can it, Jonah? Even if our bodies turn to dust, the love we feel must go somewhere.”

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183. “Maybe, she thought. Maybe we were all some shade of monstrous given the right circumstances.”

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184. “There’s always someone society chooses not to see. There’s always someone who is invisible through no fault of their own.”

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185. “I barely heard someone behind me at the bar say, “Are they fighting or having a book club?” And a different person answered, “I’m unclear. Looks like foreplay to me.” We both ignored them.”

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186. “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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187. “What’s on your happy list?”

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188. “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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189. “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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190. “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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191. “Society has set up a system that incentivizes the breeding of degenerates, criminals, and predators.”

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

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194. “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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195. “Wearing your mistakes and regrets on the outside where others can judge them. But, man, the problem is not that others judge you harshly, it’s that you believe what they say.”

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196. “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.”

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197. “Lydia. Beautiful. My everlasting dream.”

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198. “I think you’ll find, that where there is real love, there is always real hope.”

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199. “It surprised her that she was so pleased by his compliment when she’d never been a girl who cared overly much about her appearance, instead choosing to focus on her talents, her skills, the things she was in control of. But she was still a girl, and to hear that this man, whose opinion she’d come to care about, thought she was beautiful brought her joy.”

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200. “Man is the cruelest animal. – Friedrich Nietzsche.”

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