Top 280 Mia Sheridan Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don’t seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.”

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202. “He looked like a prince, but if I were going to cast him in a fairy tale now, I’d cast him as The Dragon! A beastly, judgmental, fire-breathing dragon.”

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203. “You have faith in your own worth and the world won’t matter.”

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204. “Good lord. Building stone patios, chopping wood, and walking everywhere was a workout video he needed to put on the market. ASAP.”

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205. “I think, Calder, that we have to figure out how to forgive, not for the people who wronged us, but for us.”

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206. “I myself might have found him appealing if he wasn’t so obviously crazy and useless.”

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207. “But of course, life never worked that way. You had to live every minute of the hard part in order to get to the good.”

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208. “It suddenly occurred to me that Archer Hale had taught himself an entire language, but hadn’t had a single person to talk to. Until me.”

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209. “I kissed her with all I had and everything I was worth, which, most likely, wasn’t very much right about then.”

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210. “That’s how Tenleigh affected me. I wanted her so desperately I felt like some part of me was starving for her.”

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211. “I love you,” he repeated. “In this lifetime and in any that follow. I will always love you, Audra.”

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212. “There are lots of ways to avoid pain,” she murmured. “None of them are healthy if they’re based on fear. A reaction – a rebellion if you will – rather than something from the heart.”

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213. “Funny how different our lives were, and yet how similar our hearts felt.”

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214. “I watched her silently as she retreated. And somewhere deep down inside, somewhere where there were no rules and no limits, somewhere where only the beating of my own heart could be heart, love took root.”

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215. “He sifts through all the pebbles until he finds the smoothest one he can, and presents it to her as a token of his love.”

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216. “I’m not brave, Tenleigh. I get up and live my sucky life. What else can I do?”

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217. “In life, there are those who save us, both in big ways and in small.”

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218. “Fairy tales helped me disappear into worlds where princes were loyal and honest and where princesses were strong and brave.”

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219. “We both just breathed for long minutes, getting our heart rates under control. Archer nuzzled his face into the back of my neck, kissing down my spine as far as his mouth could travel without moving his body. I calmed under the feel of his warm mouth, closing my eyes and sighing contentedly. He ran his nose over my skin, and then I felt his lips again as his mouth formed the words, I love you, I love you, I love you.”

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220. “But life, I supposed, didn’t always offer closure.”

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221. “He’d never seen anything prettier. Not even the almost-night when the colors of the bleeding sun filled the sky and came down to kiss the earth.”

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222. “Something sparked in the air, something Clara was surprised didn’t illuminate the darkness, something that felt bright and shimmery and she swore was raining upon her skin like the fallout of a broken star.”

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223. “Once upon a time, he had been a man used to the spotlight and now he was a man who danced between moonbeams.”

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224. “I love you, too. I know now that I never stopped.”

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225. “You have to feel the pain if you’re going to feel the joy.”

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226. “And maybe we all saw books differently based on our own hearts.”

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227. “I walked toward him, single-minded, and when we reached each other, despite the bandages under his shirt, he swept me up in his arms and swung me around as he laughed silently against my lips, those golden-brown eyes filled with warmth, with love. And I thought to myself, Archer Hale’s voice was one of the most beautiful things in the whole wide world.”

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228. “I think love is a concept, and each person has an individual word for them. My word is Bree.”

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229. “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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230. “There’s light in the darkness, man. I promise you. And you’re going to be a part of it. There’s no one better than you to be a part of it.”

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

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232. “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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233. “Was I wrong to feel like it was worth the pain later for some happiness now, no matter how temporary it may be?”

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234. “It’s always about you, Jonah. It’s always been about you. The world will react the way the world will react. That’s not your business. You have faith in your own worth and the world won’t matter.”

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235. “I looked forward to seeing it restored, not just for Grayson’s sake, but for the sake of beauty itself. A place like this shouldn’t be allowed to crumble to ruin.”

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236. “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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237. “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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238. “There are so many ways to read you, Archer Hale. And I love every single one of them.”

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239. “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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240. “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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241. “My God, she’s enchanting. My God, she’s mine.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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248. “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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249. “I’d give her rainbows every day if I could only see the smile she’d given me this morning, see that wonder glowing in her eyes for longer than a minute.”

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250. “Because the shoe looks unassuming. No one expects the shoe to come from behind and win it all.”

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