Top 100 Mia Sheridan Quotes
#1. Also, babe, you play hot secretary for me when I get home at the end of the day, and I'll have no need to do my real one.
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#2. Kiss me back, Tenleigh," he whispered, his voice strained. "God, please kiss me back.
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#3. 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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#4. Maybe there was no right or wrong, no black or white, only a thousand shades of gray when it came to pain and what we each held ourselves responsible for.
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#5. 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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#6. Tenleigh," he repeated, his voice cracking. "Don't love me. Please don't love me. I can't stay here. Don't love me."
"It's too late." I shook my head back and forth in defiance. "It's too late. I'm not asking you to stay, but it's too late for me not to love you.
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#7. It's meant to strip you bare in order to heal. Be brave enough not to fight it. Surrender, my boy. Let go. For just once, have the courage to let go.
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#8. It's my heart that makes me want to deny my so-called destiny.
It's my heart that wants you to be my destiny.
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#9. You are my dream," I whisper to her in the dark. "You are my every dream come true.
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#10. Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart.
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#11. Acadia "Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." Homer, The Iliad
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#12. 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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#13. I don't think you can judge every man by one or two who let you down
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#14. I'd like to take you to dinner tonight."
Oh." I say, surprise. "Um, I -"
"Evie, it's a yes or yes question.
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#15. I had never actually seen an eight-pack, but there it was, right in front of me. I guessed that even slightly strange, silent hermits weren't exempt from exceptional physiques. Good for him.
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#16. How do you teach a man who has lost everything, not to fear it happening again? How do you teach a person to trust in something none of us can guarantee?
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#17. She stared into my eyes. "Oh shit. You idiot. You totally did! You fell in love with the porn star!" She groaned, leaning back and sliding down in her chair. "Oh God, this is worse than I thought. When you let loose, you really go all out, don't you girlfriend? Holy crapola.
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#18. The only thing we'll get from trying to figure out where another path would have taken us are questions there are no answers to, and heatbreak that can't be healed. Regardless of how we got there, all any of us can do is move forward frome where we are.
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#19. 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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#20. I fell so damn hard, Tenleigh. Standing right at this bookshelf. I gave you my heart and you weren't even in the room.
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#21. I think you'll find, that where there is real love, there is always real hope." **********
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#22. There's nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss
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#23. I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine.
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#24. You're mine, Eden. You always have been, from the very first second I saw you.
I nodded. It seemed like the simplest truth the world had ever known.
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#25. Because I don't want to be with anyone except you. I didn't want her, I only want you. I only want you,
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#26. 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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#27. Each night before I fall asleep, I make it a point to turn to my wife and silently say "Only you, only ever you". And her love slips quietly around me, holding me, anchoring me, reminding me that the loudest words are the ones we live.
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#28. He invited me to his home for Christmas dinner and his little girl learned a few signs before I got there, and I taught her a few more."
I smiled, thinking of little Claudia.
"She asked me the sign for love and I spelled out your name.
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#29. Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.
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#30. There was absolutely no getting turned on by porn stars purposefully trying to shock and intimidate for no apparent reason.
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#31. 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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#32. There would be consequences to this weekend, I knew that now and I wasn't lying to myself anymore. But maybe they wouldn't all be negative. Maybe I would walk away a better person because of my encounter with this man. Yes, it sure was, life was wild.
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#33. And bear this in mind; love is not always smooth and easy. Love can be piercing. Love means exposing yourself - all of yourself, every tender part - to being hurt. Because true love is not only the flower, true love is also the thorns.
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#34. Eventually, I turn on the internet and go to my email
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#35. I realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me
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#36. 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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#37. The gods created this place for us," I whispered, smiling dreamily. Calder paused, brushing his lips once more across my throat before responding. "Yes." I felt him smile against my skin. "Why do you think they did that?" "So we'd have a place to fall in love.
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#38. I love you, Morning Glory. It's always been your heart that kept me alive. Your love. Your sweetness. I painted you to keep you alive, and that's what kept me breathing, too.
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#39. Then take my hand. Let me carry you. It's my turn. Don't deny me that. Whatever I have .
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#40. Maybe if you find the love in any situation, even the most horrifying ones, maybe that's where God is.
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#41. Why does every deliberately cruel person describe themselves as the perfect example of necessary bluntness?
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#43. The thing about Maya was it was like that extra chromosome was filled to bursting with love. So filled up, it wa constantly leaking out of her in some shouty way, and she just couldn't keep it insinde her. It hat to come out in some way, shape or form.
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#44. I couldn't have known that Archer Hale existed somewhere in this crazy world, and that he had been made just for me.
And in that moment, I knew. I was falling in love with the beautiful, silent man staring down at me. If I hadn't already fallen.
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#45. Realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me. It was like a bolt of lightning hit me, Bree.
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#46. And I fell in love. Deep, hard, utter and complete love.
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#47. Your gift with storytelling, Evie? It's not about you getting lost in your own mind, or living in a dreamland. It's about the beauty of your heart. It's about being able to rise above even the worst of situations. It's one of the reason I've loved you every single day since I was 11 years old.
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#48. 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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#49. Falling, whether to the ground or in love, is always at least a little bit scary, even if you do it slowly.
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#50. -I don't need fancy clothes, Leo. I just need you.
- You can have both.-he says smiling back.
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#51. 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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#52. You're worth fighting for. Maybe I'm getting there. Maybe I'm not the bad bet that I believed myself to be for so, so long.
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#54. Because I missed you. Because I didn't have anyone else to talk to, and so I kept talking to you, even though you never answered.
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#55. I wanted her. I wanted to strip her naked. I wanted to thrust into her, hard and fast, and watch her face as I did it. I wanted to know what she was thinking as my body filled hers.
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#56. 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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#57. People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.
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#58. For just a moment in time, we were just a boy and a girl, running and laughing in the rain on our wedding day.
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#59. It's like, the second I saw him, my life stated.
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#60. That's our plan because I swear to you, my beautiful, sweet love, everyone deserves a love story that doesn't hurt.
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#61. He gazed up at me in that way that made me feel cherished. His expression was simultaneously wondrous and joyful. I realized that I put that expression on this beautiful man's face.
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#62. Eden, yeah, she was definitely a morning glory: as pretty as a flower, with the strength of a weed.
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#63. Way I see it, maybe it's not so unfair, as unfinished. If you stopped in the middle of a lot of stories, they'd seem unfair. You're still in the middle of yours.
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#64. I'm going to kiss you now, Evie, and when I do, it's going to mean that you're mine. I don't care how far away from each other we are. You. Are. Mine. I'll wait for you. And I want you to wait for me. Promise me you won't let anyone else touch you. Promise me you'll save yourself for me.
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#65. I hope we're working toward something? There's so much ... I'll take whatever you have to give me, Tenleigh. Anything.
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#66. Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?
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#67. But what I did know was that I loved a girl. And I knew I loved her in a way I'd never, ever recover from. I knew I loved her to the very core of myself. And I knew she loved me back.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. Being able to escape to a dreamland was a survival instinct for me.
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#71. 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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#72. Peanut butter, jelly, applesauce? Are you six? I grinned at him.
He didn't smile back, though, just looked at me for a few beats as if considering my question. In some ways, yes, Bree. In other ways, no
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#73. I leaned my head on the back of the wooden chair and looked over at his handsome profile, all alight in the glow of the fire. For a second he looked like a God, maybe of the Sun, all golden and beautiful, his own magnificence outdoing that of the dancing flames.
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#74. He made it ok. When I was loved by Leo, I always felt like I would be okay.
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#75. Some people can't be fixed, or if they can, it's only by love so big it destroys the fixer.
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#76. 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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#77. I will prove to you that forever is not just a word, not just a measurement of unending time, but that forever is a place where I will treasure your heart.
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#78. 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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#79. The depth of heartache and love, hurt and forgiveness we had experienced since the last time we were here. And my heart filled with gratitude for all of it, even the pain, because it had brought us here, to this very moment.
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#80. May ya never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if ya must lie, lie in each other's arms. If ya must steal, steal kisses. If ya must cheat, cheat death. And if ya must drink, drink with us, your friends. To me friends!
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#81. The true value of money - it was meant to be shared, used to help others, but also represented a type of freedom
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#82. 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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#84. Eden, Eden, I was dead without you. Oh God, I've been walking around like a ghost - half in this world, and half in the other. Eden . . ." I moaned out the words,
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#85. Someday, I said, when we're old and gray, I'm going to look at you lying in bed beside me, just like this, and I'm going to look into your eyes and know that it's only ever been you. And that is going to be the great joy of my life, Bree Prescott.
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#86. I want to be able to love you, more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how.
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#87. I've wanted to taste them and suck on them since I walked in on you the other day," I admitted, my lips against her skin as I kissed the other breast. "I've wondered if they taste as sweet as they look.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. I guess if it wasn't beautiful, the tragedy ultimately wouldn't be sad.
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#91. Not all great acts of courage are obvious to those looking in from the outside.
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#92. Marriage is much like wine. They both mature slowly and grow deeper and more complex with time.
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#93. Sometimes, you don't even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you
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#94. You brought the silence,
The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard.
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#95. Life could injure you, but you could get up again if you were strong enough, and especially if you had the right person to help you out.
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#96. My God, she's enchanting. My God, she's mine.
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#97. He stared back like I was an advanced math problem he couldn't interpret.
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#98. Calder kissed me in a way that made me believe I had no only always been his, but I would be his forever. In this life or any other. In his kiss was the promise that wherever he and I existed, we would belong to each other.
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#99. Funny how different our lives were, and yet how similar our hearts felt.
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#100. She took part of my pain and made it her own. I didn't want her to hurt, but to share my scars with another human was a relief that I hadn't even known I needed until I got it.
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