Midnight Lily Quotes

“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.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“There's always someone society chooses not to see. There's always someone who is invisible through no fault of their own.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“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, Midnight Lily

“I love you, Lily of the Night. I love you so much. I'm going to love you forever,
Forever.
In the darkness, or in the light.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“Fate is the language God uses to speak to us, baby. It's up to us to listen, though.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“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. And I'm yours.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“we don't get to choose what we carry, but we do get to choose the grace with which we carry it." I”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“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, Midnight Lily

“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, Midnight Lily

“They say crazy people rarely question their own sanity." "Who's they?" "The crazy people,”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“Life can still hold miracles, even very small ones.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“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 , Midnight Lily

“I myself might have found him appealing if he wasn't so obviously crazy and useless.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“-Lily - he whispered. - Lily of the Night. How do I say goodbye to you now?
-With happiness, - I whispered, - because we'll see each other soon. And when we do you'll kiss me again.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“the ones who see what we carry and want us anyway, those are the ones to hold on to.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“Deserve it? Do any of us deserve what we get in this life? Is that how it works?”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“It felt like my soul was sleeping, and I had no earthly idea what would wake it up again.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“We will never be perfect or without flaws, the lives we've been given are not like that.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“I'm not afraid of the darkness. I've been there before. I'll step into it willingly, unhesitatingly, and I'll come find you.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“think that sometimes, well sometimes, the only way to survive is to go crazy." I thought about”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“from my personal observation, the majority of crazy people are artists. They're more sensitive souls—they have to be to create art others respond to. But it means they're more easily broken.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“You have the heart of an artist. It's why so many of us lose our minds.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“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, Midnight Lily

“Listen, baby, life is a series of things we choose and things we carry.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“I was surprised Nyala believed in God, that anyone with an illness of any kind could believe in a loving God. Why couldn't he heal us then? Were we not worthy?”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“Life is a series of things we choose and things we carry”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“Being with her made me starkly aware of how harsh and dirty my own life felt.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“Are you a dream?" I mused aloud. "Or maybe a . . . ghost?" She”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“His kiss sent sensation from the tip of my tongue all the way to my knees, and I let my weight fall against him as I met his probing tongue with my own. I wanted to be closer, to absorb all of him, to experience the shimmery feeling flowing through my veins for as long as possible.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily

“hysteria," a term used for women who exhibited sexual desire and strong emotions.”
― Mia Sheridan, Midnight Lily