Mia Sheridan Quotes & Sayings

Love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your
heart. — Mia Sheridan

I smiled at his note. I'd never thought about myself as an optimist, but maybe I was. And maybe we all saw books differently based on our own hearts. — Mia Sheridan

You drive me crazy," he murmured. He brushed his lips across mine lightly and I shivered. "And you make the darkness go away. You bring me some kind of peace." He let out a harsh exhale of breath and I drank it in. "I don't know what to do with it."
"Take it, Ky," I whispered. "You deserve some peace. Let me give it to you. — Mia Sheridan

And once they know you love them, they all walk away — Mia Sheridan

I'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing. I can't ... " He sucked in a shaky breath. "I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me, Bree. Please teach me. Don't let me destroy this. — Mia Sheridan

Those guys out there who have been coddled constantly, and cheered for their whole lives, they'll be the first ones to quit when they don't have anyone to depend on but themselves. But not you - because you've never known any different. And that sucks. But in this case, it's your strength. It's your ace in the hole. I'd bet on you, Carson Stinger. — Mia Sheridan

I can't make the fire go away," she had seemed to say, "I can't guarantee you won't get burned. But I can hold this hoop for you, I can remain steady and strong, because I believe in you. Because you are mine. — Mia Sheridan

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

As pretty as a flower . . . as strong as a weed. — Mia Sheridan

I have loved none but you, — Mia Sheridan

That's our plan because I swear to you, my beautiful, sweet love, everyone deserves a love story that doesn't hurt. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

You're jealous of a bird?" she asks.
"What? No!" I snap. I just don't think I like peacocks very much.
"You're jealous of a bird," she says, a glint of amusement coming into her eyes. She glances back at her phone. "He IS gorgeous. Goddddd, soooo gorgeous," she moans out the words, throwing her head back.
"Hilarious," I say, trying not to smile now at my own ridiculousness. "That bird was trying to move in on my territory. I know a brazen male threat when I see one. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

Some people can't be fixed, or if they can, it's only by love so big it destroys the fixer. — Mia Sheridan

..."my wounded healer, my beautiful Archer. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

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 — Mia Sheridan

I don't know enough to dream you, Bree, but somehow you came true anyway. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

There was absolutely no getting turned on by porn stars purposefully trying to shock and intimidate for no apparent reason. — Mia Sheridan

Is that your smile? Truly?" I pretended to shudder. "Looks more like a demented hyena. — Mia Sheridan

You are my dream," I whisper to her in the dark. "You are my every dream come true. — Mia Sheridan

I was finally home. Not the place, but his arms. Archer's arms were my home- the only place I wanted to be, the place where I felt safe. The place where I felt loved. — Mia Sheridan

Watch what people do when they think no one's watching, love. That's how you'll know who they really are — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

Why, if it isn't Carson Stinger, Straight Male Performer, — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

This is that burden I was talking about, Bree. This is what the burden of loving me looks like."
"Loving you isn't a burden. Loving you is an honor and a joy, Archer. — Mia Sheridan

Tenleigh, when I say it was my choice to do what I did, to sacrifice getting out of here so you could, I meant that I did it happily. I mean that. I suffered, yes, but I realized I would happily suffer for you, because that's what loving someone is. Willing to do anything for them, willing to make any sacrifice, suffer so they don't have to. I loved you then, and I still love you now. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

It's like, the second I saw him, my life stated. — Mia Sheridan

Nature was cruel that way; giving long, dark lashes to boys who didn't appreciate them. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

You have to feel the pain if you're going to feel the joy. — Mia Sheridan

We laughed and something inside me clicked into place. It was as if the mix of colors on the canvas was finally perfect for the picture I wanted so desperately to create. — Mia Sheridan

I hate saying goodbye to you."
I nuzzled my face into his chest and then tipped my head back and looked up at him. "Just promise me once we get out of here, we'll never say goodbye again."
"I promise. — Mia Sheridan

I thought about how Bree and I were so different... and yet so similar. She carried the guilt of not fighting when she thought she should have, and I carried the scar of what happened when you did. We had each reacted differently in a moment of terror, and yet we both still hurt. 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. ~Archer, Ch.15 — Mia Sheridan

That's how Tenleigh affected me. I wanted her so desperately I felt like some part of me was starving for her. — Mia Sheridan

Maybe having something good and then having to let it go is more painful than never knowing what you're missing. — Mia Sheridan

There's nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss — Mia Sheridan

I realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me — Mia Sheridan

Was I wrong to feel like it was worth the pain later for some happiness now, no matter how temporary it may be? — Mia Sheridan

It was hard to really hate someone so good-looking. That was just the unfairness of life. — Mia Sheridan

Someday I'm going to leave here, but a part of my heart is going to remain. With you." My — Mia Sheridan

I still feel sad. Maybe I'll always
feel sad." It wasn't the kind of sorrow that brought tears anymore, though. The sadness
simply was part of me now. It had settled into my bones and I just kind of figured it'd
always be there. "But I don't feel crazy. — Mia Sheridan

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. It hardly seemed fair. — Mia Sheridan

Bad things don't happen to people because they deserve for them to happen. It just doesn't work that way. It's just ... life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we're dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway ... to have faith that there's a purpose to the journey we're on. — Mia Sheridan

And, Evie, when you walk away from people, even strangers, you gotta know that their eyes follow you. And I'll tell you why because I've felt it myself. It's because they don't want to see the light that is Evie, the light that is you, walking away from them. They want to see it coming towards them and staying with them. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

I've found that people say what suits them in the moment. Doesn't always mean it can be counted on — Mia Sheridan

Never fret, my love, the universe always balances the scales. Her ways may be mysterious, but they are always just." Isabelle Dallaire, "Gram — Mia Sheridan

I was being touched by Carson Stinger, Straight Male Performer! No! Yes! Yes! Yes! Three yes's to one no. Majority rules! — Mia Sheridan

These were the hills of my blood, the land my father and all his fathers before him had worked and loved in, toiling in the coal mines, working the soil of their land, and falling in love with women who would give them proud Kentucky sons and daughters. For the first time since I'd been a little boy, I felt fierce with the love of home, of these mountains, of the people who lived here, trying, failing, trying again, hanging on by their fingernails to their God-given pride and their enduring love of Appalachia. — Mia Sheridan

There is such a thin veil between love and hate. — Mia Sheridan

Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt — Mia Sheridan

Try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks. — Mia Sheridan

You don't have to be awake to cry. — Mia Sheridan

Everyone tells a story about who they are in their own head. That story defines you, dictating all your actions and all your mistakes. If your own story is filled with guilt and fear and self-hatred, life can look pretty miserable. But, if you're very lucky, you might have a person who tells you a better story, one that takes up residence in your soul, speaking louder than the woeful tale of which you've convinced yourself. If you let it speak loudly within your heart, it becomes your passion and your purpose. — Mia Sheridan

hysteria," a term used for women who exhibited sexual desire and strong emotions. — Mia Sheridan

I lost my heart to you. And, Bree, in case you're wondering, I don't ever want it back. — Mia Sheridan

Lose control, baby. Just for a weekend. Let me take charge. I'll take good care of you, I promise. — Mia Sheridan

Sometimes, you don't even realize anything is wrong until someone comes along and changes you — Mia Sheridan

Oh God! I moan out as her hand slows. Will it always be like this with her? Holy shit. I'll be dead by the time I'm thirty-two. But what a way to go. Death by orgasm. He came so hard he had an aneurism. Lucky bastard. — Mia Sheridan

I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent. — Mia Sheridan

But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero. Especially — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

And listen to them, not with your hurt, but with your heart. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

I want to be able to love you, more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. — Mia Sheridan

~ Jake is my lion, and Leo is my boy, I love both, I need both - Just one or the other doesn't add up to the complete person that he's become.~ — Mia Sheridan

But the greater knowledge that now lived in the peaceful silence of my heart was: in love there is
truth.
And the truth that love had taught me was you can only be strong once you are brave enough to
break, and that pain makes more room for love within. I was grateful for it all, because that was the
beautiful balance of life — Mia Sheridan

If you really search your heart, I think you'll realize that we were never right for each other as more than friends." ~Grace, Ch.28 — Mia Sheridan

Looking at this house made me crushingly aware that most of my life I'd lived behind the shadow of who my father wished me to be. And all I'd ever longed for was to stand in the sunshine of being loved for who I was. — Mia Sheridan

Dandelion seeds were scattered across the glass, and as a light breeze blew, the fluffy ends were caught in the moving air and danced delicately off my windshield as they took flight, moving away from me, in the direction the man had gone. — Mia Sheridan

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 — Mia Sheridan

I fell so damn hard, Tenleigh. Standing right at this bookshelf. I gave you my heart and you weren't even in the room. — Mia Sheridan

I kissed her with all I had and everything I was worth, which, most likely, wasn't very much right about then. — Mia Sheridan

I thought about my dad the whole time I sat there, remembering special moments, we'd shared, reminiscing about the little quirks he had, picturing his face so clearly in my mind. I focused on what I had had, on what some people never got for even a minute. I had had him for twenty-one years. I was lucky-I had been blessed. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

We will never be perfect or without flaws, the lives we've been given are not like that. But, Lily, in my heart, you are perfect for me. Perfectly mine. — Mia Sheridan

Listen, baby, life is a series of things we choose and things we carry. The things we choose, well, those are ours. But we don't get a vote on the things we carry. Some are heavier than others, some we can put down eventually, and some are ours to keep. We don't have a choice in the burdens we're given to bear, but we do have a choice in how we hold them. We can strap them to our backs and walk through the world hunched over under the weight like someone who should spend his or her days in a bell tower. Or we can stand tall and straight like one of those African queens carrying a woven basket on her head. — Mia Sheridan

It was as if my body were his instrument and he learned to play it so perfectly that the melody vibrated within my very soul — Mia Sheridan

I'm here for you. I'm here because of you. I'm here because you saw me, not just with your eyes, but with your heart. I'm here because you wanted to know what I had to say and because you were right ... everyone does need friends. — Mia Sheridan

Half agony, half hope. Half pain, half ecstasy. Half grief, half joy. Half my downfall, half my savior. — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

It's always been you, and no one else. — Mia Sheridan

In life, there are those who save us, both in big ways and in small. — Mia Sheridan

You brought the silence,
The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard. — Mia Sheridan

People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too. — Mia Sheridan

For a couple hours, I was a kid, doing something simple that I had never done when I was actually a kid. For a short time, I lost myself in doing something for no other reason than that it was fun. — Mia Sheridan

There's always someone society chooses not to see. There's always someone who is invisible through no fault of their own. — Mia Sheridan

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, — Mia Sheridan

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. — Mia Sheridan

Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, Because I like your face. — Mia Sheridan

I hope we're working toward something? There's so much ... I'll take whatever you have to give me, Tenleigh. Anything. — Mia Sheridan

I don't think it's stalking if I get an invitation, but yes, I'd love to accompany you to the store."
"I don't know if I'm ready for this huge jump in status," I tease. "From stalker to chaperone in a day? You'll think I'm easy. — Mia Sheridan

We're always the ones stuck while you men fight for the things that are so important to you for reasons we can't understand. We wait, and we wonder, and we hurt." He — Mia Sheridan