“As long as we’re both under the same moon, we’ll always find a way to each other.”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Becoming Calder
“Eden, yeah, she was definitely a morning glory: as pretty as a flower, with the strength of a weed.”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Becoming Calder
“I love this. I love you, the feel of you, the smell of you, just you,”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Becoming Calder
“There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve,”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Becoming Calder
“Every once in a while I hear something...something between a feeling and a whisper.”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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 heard, love took root.”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Becoming Calder
“All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking in the movie theatres. He was a good man, considerate and kind, but he was not strong. He had never been through any kind of bad hardship before. So I worried.”
― Amy Tan, quote from The Kitchen God's Wife
“I'll risk everything together with you.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from A Doll's House
“Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, quote from Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“Twenty, thirty, forty feet. The pressure wasn’t uncomfortable. I’d never tried to push it—to see if there was a limit to how deep I could dive. I knew most regular humans couldn’t go past two hundred feet without crumpling like an aluminum can. I should’ve been blind, too, this deep in the water at night, but I could see the heat from living forms, and the cold of the currents. It’s hard to describe. It wasn’t like regular seeing, but I could tell where everything was. As I got closer to the bottom, I saw three hippocampi—fish-tailed horses—swimming in a circle around an overturned boat. The hippocampi were beautiful to watch. Their fish tails shimmered in rainbow colors, glowing phosphorescent. Their manes were white, and they were galloping through the water the way nervous horses do in a thunderstorm. Something was upsetting them. I got closer and saw the problem. A dark shape—some kind of animal—was wedged halfway under the boat and tangled in a fishing net, one of those big nets they use on trawlers to catch everything at once. I hated those things. It was bad enough they drowned porpoises and dolphins, but they also occasionally caught mythological animals. When the nets got tangled, some lazy fishermen would just cut them loose and let the trapped animals die. Apparently this poor creature had been mucking around on the bottom of Long Island Sound and had somehow gotten itself tangled in the net of this sunken fishing boat. It had tried to get out and managed to get even more hopelessly stuck, shifting the boat in the process. Now the wreckage of the hull, which was resting against a big rock, was teetering and threatening to collapse on top of the tangled animal. The hippocampi were swimming around frantically, wanting to help but not sure how. One was trying to chew the net, but hippocampi teeth just aren’t meant for cutting rope. Hippocampi are really strong, but they don’t have hands, and they’re not (shhh) all that smart. Free”
― Rick Riordan, quote from Percy Jackson and the Olympians
“Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’
‘How can you even talk to me like that? Don’t you know I can summon zombies and skeletons and –’
‘Right now you couldn’t summon a wishbone without melting into a puddle of darkness, di Angelo,’ Will said. ‘I told you, no more Underworldy stuff, doctor’s orders. You owe me at least three days of rest in the infirmary. Starting now.’
Nico felt like a hundred skeletal butterflies were resurrecting in his stomach. ‘Three days? I – I suppose that would be okay.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Blood of Olympus
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