Unwanted Quotes

“Sometimes miracles—like love—arrived gently. Softly. Without fanfare. Without a lightning strike. For true miracles needed no such thing.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“We know things deep, deep down, secret things, ancient things, that whisper to us, one to the other. You whispered to me. And I whispered back.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“All human wisdom is contained in these words – wait and hope””
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“That if we can hang on—survive—through the hard times in life, there is something better waiting for us. There’s a purpose we can’t always see. There’s an . . . order.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“You whispered to me. And I whispered back. You heard, didn’t you?”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“Society has set up a system that incentivizes the breeding of degenerates, criminals, and predators.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“He was no savage. Far from it. He was the one who had been savaged by cruelty and evil.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words—wait and hope.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“Did you know the trees speak to each other?” She wrinkled her brow. “No.” “They do. They tell secrets in their roots, those deep, dark places that can’t be seen. I think we’re like that too. We know things deep, deep down, secret things, ancient things, that whisper through us, one to the other. You whispered to me. And I whispered back. You heard, didn’t you?” Her heart beat with love for him, at the sweetness of what he’d said. She nodded. “Yes, I heard.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“I love you,” she said, nuzzling him back. “All of you. Maybe the wolf most of all, because he was the one who ensured you lived so you could love me when I arrived.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“An ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass,”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“He’d never seen anything prettier. Not even the almost-night when the colors of the bleeding sun filled the sky and came down to kiss the earth.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“CHAPTER ONE”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“I want the wolf,” she said softly. “I want you. I don’t need you to hold back.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“Pup had saved more than just his life . . . he’d given him a reason to live.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“People were hateful and cruel, vicious and underhanded. But…but they were also capable of selflessness and acts of deep love and grace. Mark had to remind himself of that often. And the fact was, people needed other people in order to hold on to their own humanity.”
― Mia Sheridan, Unwanted

“And she saw that she could not claim the joy without also claiming the pain.”
― Mia Sheridan, Unwanted

“The question waved through Jak’s mind,”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“We know things deep, deep down, secret things, ancient things, that whisper through us, one to the other. You whispered to me. And I whispered back. You heard, didn’t you?”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“big trees that didn’t grow in the ground, but instead in . . . pots all around the sides. He wondered how they whispered to each other that way when they had no deep-down place to meet.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“life that flowed through the living being and when you ate them, you could taste all the things that animal had experienced. Its life flowed into you and in that way, never really stopped living. Life went on and on and on. Never stopping.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“Winter always waited. It might seem far away for now, but it would be back before he was ready. It would come back to steal his hope—of survival, of rescue, of having a family or people to love him.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“Everything grew silent around them, even the birds had stopped their morning chitter-chatter. But suddenly Harper fell forward, her sob shattering the air. She grabbed at him, and Lucas caught her. He startled and then stilled, taking her in his arms and pulling her against his chest as she cried, her sadness bouncing off the walls of the canyon and disappearing into the forest high above.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged

“He’d done it then. He’d do it now. Face the monster. Even if it felt like he’d already faced too many monsters.”
― Mia Sheridan, Unwanted

“So being polite is saying something you don’t mean so the other person has to say the thing you do mean.”
― Mia Sheridan, Unwanted

“People were hateful and cruel, vicious and underhanded. But…but they were also capable of selflessness and acts of deep love and grace.”
― Mia Sheridan, Unwanted

“Her heart twisted, half joy, half sorrow, as she realized that, yes, the forest had nourished his body, but her mother’s words had nourished his soul.”
― Mia Sheridan, Unwanted

“the forest had nourished his body, but her mother’s words had nourished his soul.”
― Mia Sheridan, Savaged