Becoming Calder Quotes

“As long as we’re both under the same moon, we’ll always find a way to each other.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“Eden, I vow this. My heart is yours. My life is yours. My body is yours. My art, my dreams. You own each and every part of me.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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, Becoming Calder

“Eden, yeah, she was definitely a morning glory: as pretty as a flower, with the strength of a weed.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“She had dared to dream beyond what someone else had ordained her destiny to be, beyond what even the gods had destined.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“I love this. I love you, the feel of you, the smell of you, just you,”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

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

“I am yours. I've always been yours. I'll be yours here on earth, in Elysium. I'll fight the gods if I have to. I'll stand before them and declare”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“If this is the last piece of heaven I get before I'm dragged down to hell, then I'll gladly take it.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve,”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“I had dreams as well. In that moment, right there and then, I admitted to myself that I longed for more for my life and maybe those dreams were beautiful too. Brave. I had always pushed that desire away, ashamed of it, thinking it sinful, selfish.
But maybe, just maybe, my own dreams weren’t as sinful as I’d always thought them to be…somehow.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“..."And when you go back to your room tonight, I'll know I'm closer to you than I was yesterday, and my bed will have your smell all over it".”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“Every once in a while I hear something...something between a feeling and a whisper.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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, Becoming Calder

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“And then his mouth met mine and the taste of him was all I knew. I moaned, a wordless confession of my desire and complete willingness”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“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, Becoming Calder

“The thing about Maya was it was like that extra chromosome was filled to bursting with love. So filled up, it was constantly leaking out of her in some shouty way, and she just couldn’t keep it inside her. But I figured when you love someone, you put up with all their faults, even the especially loud ones.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder

“The thing about Maya was it was like that extra chromosome was filled to bursting with love. So filled up, it was constantly leaking out of her in some shouty way, and she just couldn't keep it inside her. It had to come out in some way, shape or form. But I guessed when you love someone, you put up with all their faults, even the especially loud ones.”
― Mia Sheridan, Becoming Calder