Top 280 Mia Sheridan Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “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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154. “And once they know you love them, they all walk away.”

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155. “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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156. “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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157. “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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158. “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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159. “As confusing as our situation is, inside it feels like it all makes perfect sense.”

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

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161. “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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162. “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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163. “What I know, is that you walked through my gate that day and I lost my heart. But not because it could have been any girl–because it was you. I lost my heart to you. And, Bree, in case you’re wondering, I don’t ever want it back.”

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164. “I grabbed her hand and pulled her into my arms, kissing her lips and falling in love with her, just like I still did a thousand times a day.”

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165. “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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166. “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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167. “Maybe, she thought. Maybe we were all some shade of monstrous given the right circumstances.”

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “What’s on your happy list?”

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171. “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.”

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172. “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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173. “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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174. “Society has set up a system that incentivizes the breeding of degenerates, criminals, and predators.”

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175. “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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176. “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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177. “There is such a thin veil between love and hate.”

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

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179. “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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180. “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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181. “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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182. “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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183. “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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184. “Life brings us all to our knees at one point or another.”

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

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186. “There’s nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you’re lost and afraid.”

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187. “For the first time in my whole life, I feel like I have control over the monsters in my head. For the first time in my life, I have hope.”

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188. “There are so many ways to read you, Archer Hale. And I love every single one of them.”

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189. “There are no interesting stories in these parts, just weary, never-ending tales of tragedy and woe. And toothlessness.”

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190. “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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191. “Love makes a place for itself even if there isn’t one, Mama,” she said quietly. “Love carves into the hardest of places.”

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192. “If I were just a boy, and you were just a girl, I wouldn’t kiss you once like you asked.” He paused and my heart dropped. Oh. “Eden, I’d kiss you long, and I’d kiss you often.”

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193. “My God, she’s enchanting. My God, she’s mine.”

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194. “Life can still hold miracles, even very small ones.”

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195. “Are thy fighting or having a bookclub?”

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196. “Kiss me back, Tenleigh,” he whispered, his voice strained. “God, please kiss me back.”

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197. “For how is there bravery if there is no fear?”

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198. “You whispered to me. And I whispered back. You heard, didn’t you?”

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199. “But I want you to see me. An expression of vulnerability washed over his face. Now you can see me.”

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200. “I barely knew anything about this girl. I only knew that when I was with her, the entire world felt different. It was like this forest was our own secret land, and here, we could be anything we wanted to be. Anything at all.”

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