Top 160 Shelby Mahurin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You knew I was a snake when you picked me up”.”

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2. “A queen must do what is necessary, Louise. You were almost there, but you stopped. Shall I show you the path to continue? Shall I show you everything you lack?”

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3. “Claud and Blaise and Angelica. Gods and werewolves and witches and mermaids.”

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4. “Spilling a person’s secrets is a lot like spilling their blood. Once it’s done, it’s done. There’s no going back.”

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5. “Never apologize for being uncomfortable.”

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6. “Hope isn’t the sickness. It’s the cure.”

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7. “Algunas cosas no pueden cambiarse con palabras. Es necesario ver algunas cosas para creerlas. Es necesario sentirlas.”

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8. “Would you, oh brave and virtuous Chasseur, stick your tongue down my throat and your hands up my skirt? My ass needs grabbing.”

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9. “There was only one way such a story could end -a stake and a match.”

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10. “You said it yourself.” Their glow reflected in his eyes. “Magic isn’t good or evil. It heeds those who summon it. When life is a choice between fighting or fleeing – every moment life or death – everything becomes a weapon.”

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11. “And such a tight little ass.”

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12. “Big Titty Liddy was not very pretty, but her bosom was big as a barn. Her creamery knockers drove men off their rockers, but she was blind to their charms.”

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13. “Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.”

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14. “What do we do with the evidence?” I wiped my bloody hands on my hem. “We burn it. There’s a furnace downstairs.” My eyes lit up. “Yes! I set a warehouse on fire once. One match, and the whole thing went up like a smokestack.” He stared at me in horror. “You set a building on fire?”

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15. “She is.” Coco stared down the alley where Nicholina had disappeared. “The sort of treat that rots your soul instead of your teeth.”

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16. “Perhaps it’d be peaceful, to drown. I’d never given it thought. When I’d imagined my own death, it’d been at the end of a sword. Perhaps twisted and broken by a witch’s hand. Violent, painful endings.”

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17. “I leaned back, studying her as she finished my bun. A bit of icing covered her lip. Her nose was still red from the cold, her hair wild and windblown. My little heathen.”

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18. “Reid eyed me incredulously. “You drink like a man.” “Maybe men can learn a thing or two from women.”

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19. “C’est cela l’amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour. That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return. – Albert Camus.”

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20. “Allow me to fill in the gaps for you.” I kissed his nose. “You are a huntsman.” Though he recoiled slightly, I didn’t let him escape, kissing his cheek. “You are a son.” I kissed his other cheek. “You are a brother.” His forehead. “You are a husband.” His eyelids and his chin. “You are brave and strong and good.” And, finally, his lips. “But most important, you are loved.”

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21. “For days I’d waited to hear those words, yet now they rang hollow in my ears. Empty. She didn’t understand the meaning of them. Perhaps couldn’t. They implied truth, trust. I doubted she’d ever known either. Still – I wanted to believe her. Desperately. And an apology from her didn’t come lightly.”

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22. “Forgive me,” Madame Labelle snapped. “After birthing a man’s child – and all that predicates such a happy occasion – I assumed formalities would cease. An egregious mistake.”

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23. “A name isn’t a person.”

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24. “This was the nature of the beast. Magic required sacrifice. Nature demanded balance. Reid would need to learn this sooner rather than later if we were to survive.”

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25. “More potent than pain – more potent than magic – our fury simmers and bubbles, a poison all its own. Noxious. We must not kill her. Though she has forsaken her family, forsaken my mistress, we must obey.”

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26. “That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return. – Albert Camus.”

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27. “Wicked are the ways of women – and especially a witch. Their guile knows no bounds.”

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28. “I loved her. Despite everything. Despite the lies, the betrayal, the hurt. Despite the Archbishop and Morgane le Blanc. Despite my own brothers. I don’t know if she returned that love, and I didn’t care. If she was destined to burn in Hell, I would burn with her.”

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29. “The more we gain, the more we lose.”

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30. “Only you can decide what your happiness looks like.”

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31. “I was no one’s sacrifice. Not then. Not now. Not ever.”

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32. “You’re acting like I’m suddenly damaged goods, or – or a piece of glass about to shatter. News flash – I’ve practiced magic all my life. I know what I’m doing.”

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33. “Death couldn’t take him away from me. He was me. Our souls were bound. Even if he didn’t want me, even if I cursed his name, we were one.”

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34. “Ask me no questions, mon amour, and I shall tell you no lies.”

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35. “Hay un momento para el duelo y un momento para seguir adelante.”

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36. “Our lives reflect our hearts.”

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37. “If you want to make me happy, you’d treat me like your partner. Your spouse. You wouldn’t keep secrets from me like a foolish child. You wouldn’t play with memories or steal Balisardas. You wouldn’t turn yourself to ice. Are you – are you trying to get yourself killed?”

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38. “No hay nada esperanzador en la muerte. La muerte es muerte.”

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39. “Because you’re incapacitating yourself with hate,” Lou said. “Open yourself up to your magic. Accept it, welcome it, and it’ll come to you. Are you ready?”

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40. “Accept it. Move on. Better yet – switch sides. Nicholina, my aunt isn’t the person you want her to be. Morgane is even worse. They don’t value you. They don’t accept you. You’re a tool to them – a means to an end – just like the rest of us.”

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41. “She was burning, Reid. I don’t know how, but she took away that witch’s pain. She gave it to herself.” He exhaled heavily. “That’s why I didn’t tell you. Because even though I knew Lou was a witch, I knew she wasn’t evil. She burned at the stake once. She doesn’t deserve to do it twice.”

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42. “It doesn’t end in death. It ends in hope.”

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43. “In that brief moment, I understood. The doubt, the hesitation, the mourning of a future I’d never have-it belonged to her as well. Gone was the spitting hellcat. Now, there was only a woman. And she was small. And she was frightened. And she was strong. And she was asking me to be the same.”

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44. “I knew I would remember him. I would feel his abscence even after death, would ache for him to be near me in a way he could never be again. This was my destiny-eternal torment.”

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45. “I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, but you need to look in the mirror. There’s a special circle in Hell for liars and hypocrites, Your Eminence. Perhaps I’ll see you there.”

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46. “Take it from someone who knows – when a person brings you more hurt than happiness, you’re allowed to let them go. You do not have to follow them into the dark.”

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47. “You’re doing it again,” he says at last. I look away quickly. “Doing what?” “Romanticizing nightmares.”

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48. “They might’ve been hypocrites, but I was the biggest one of them all.”

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49. “Un malheur ne vient jamais seul. Misfortune never arrives alone. – French proverb.”

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50. “But Morgane was nothing if not tenacious. She would find them, she would torture them, and she would kill them. And it was all because of me.”

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