Mia Sheridan > Mia's Quotes

“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months now, I’ve lived in terror, fearing everything and everyone. I don’t want to be scared anymore. The only time I’ve ever felt safe is in your arms. I love you, and I just want to let you in all the way. So please. Please fill me with love, because I can’t bear to be filled with fear anymore. It’s suffocating me.”
― Devon Ashley, Nearly Broken

“There's a girl, Dad."

He smiled a bit. "A girl."

"She kinda hates me, and I kinda..."

"Love her?"

"I don't know. I don't think so. I mean...how do you know?"

His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“I am selfish — you have already said so— and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.

Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678).”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo