Mia Sheridan > Quotes

“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“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, Archer's Voice

“I lost my heart to you. And, Bree, in case you're wondering, I don't ever want it back.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Someday … 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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I stand by my logic though. I think love is a concept, and each person has an individual word for what sums it up for them. My word for love is Bree.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“You brought the silence,
The most beautiful sound I’d ever heard.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“..the loudest words are the ones we live.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I knew I loved her – fiercely and with every part of my heart, even the broken parts, even the parts that felt unworthy and without value. And maybe those parts most of all.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I didn’t know enough to dream you, Bree, but somehow you came true anyway. How did that happen?” He rubbed his nose along mine, pausing and then pulling back again. “Who read my mind and knew exactly what I wanted, even when I didn’t?”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I know I'm probably the last person you want to see right now, but I thought if I sat on your porch, you wouldn't be scared. You wouldn't be alone.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I CAN SPEAK. I JUST LIKE TO SHOW OFF MY NICE PENMANSHIP.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“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, Archer's Voice

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“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, Leo

“...not all great acts of courage are obvious to those looking in from the outside.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Leo

“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, Archer's Voice

“Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.”
― Mia Sheridan, Leo

“I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“And sometimes, that's all it takes–one person who's willing to listen to your heart, to the sound no one else has ever tried to hear.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“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, Archer's Voice

“Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart.”
― Mia Sheridan, Leo

“How do you teach a man who has lost everything, not to fear it happening again?”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Today may be a very bad day, but tomorrow may be the best day of your life. You just have to hang on until you get there.”
― Mia Sheridan, Grayson's Vow

“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, Archer's Voice

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Leo

“I do go to hell. Every day. For you.”
― Mia Sheridan, Kyland