Top 160 Shelby Mahurin Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “But you should know,” I breathed, “that if a man touches me in any way without my permission, I’ll cut him open.” I paused for effect, dragging the knife from his throat to his navel and beyond. He swallowed hard. “Even if that man is my husband.”

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52. “Despite my shaking shoulders, Lou held me tightly. Tears streamed down her own cheeks. I crushed her against me, breath shuddering – each gasp painful, burning – as I buried my face in the crook of her neck. As I finally, finally allowed the grief to win. To consume me. In great, heaving sobs, it burst forth – a torrent of hurt and bitterness, of shame and regret – and I choked on it, helpless to stop its wrath. Helpless to do anything but cling to Lou. My friend. My shelter. My home.”

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53. “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from you. Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.”

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54. “We’re natural enemies, Reid. You’ll always be a witch hunter. I’ll always be a witch. And we’ll always bring each other pain.”

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55. “Ours isn’t a grand, sweeping romance. We aren’t star-crossed lovers. We were a casual hookup, and that’s all.”

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56. “You’re my wife now, whether we like it or not. No man will ever touch you that way again.”

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57. “You are a snake. Shed your skin if it no longer serves you. Transform into something different. Something better.”

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58. “You don’t get to leave me. Do you understand?” Cupping my face, he wrenched me backward and kissed me hard. His voice was fierce. His eyes were fiercer. They burned into mine, angry and anguished and afraid. “You don’t get to do this alone. If you retreat into your mind – into your magic – I’ll follow you, Lou.” He shook me slightly, tears glistening in those frightened eyes. “I’ll follow you into that darkness, and I’ll bring you back. Do you hear me? Where you go, I will go.”

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59. “Though I abhor jumping to conclusions, our beloved patriarchs surely would’ve sent someone to repair this hovel otherwise.” Achille’s eyes darkened. “Watch your tone.”

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60. “If this woman is to be my wife,” he said, swallowing hard, “you will not touch her again.”

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61. “They shared too much hurt between them. Too much grief. Jealousy. Spite. Even well-adjusted, the two would’ve been wrong for each other. Like water and oil.”

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62. “I’m a witch, Reid. A witch. I have the power to protect the ones I love, and I will sacrifice anything for them. If that makes me a monster – if that makes me aberrant – I’ll don the teeth and claws to make it easier for you. I’ll get worse, if that justifies your twisted rhetoric. Much, much worse.”

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63. “Diggory saved my second son after taking the life of my first. He has fulfilled his debt. My kin will no longer hunt him, and you will leave our homeland in peace. I do not owe him an alliance. I do not owe him anything.”

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64. “Everyone here wants to kill or possibly eat you. Shut up, good man, before you lose your spleen.”

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65. “Fear was inevitable. We all made our choices, and we all suffered our consequences. We all felt fear. The trick was learning to live with that fear, to continue forward in spite of it.”

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66. “Lou might’ve lied. She might’ve deceived me. But when I’d followed her to the Chateau, I’d chosen my fate, and I’d done it with my eyes wide open. I’d chosen this life. This love. And with my fingers trembling in hers, with her heart beating alongside mine, I still chose it. I still chose her.”

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67. “Do you want to kiss me?” His finger stilled on my waistband, and I nodded, breathless. I knew the next words before he spoke them. I reveled in them. “Show me.”

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68. “It’s exactly the sort of game she likes to play. Manipulative, cruel, divisive. She expects a response. She craves a response. The wisest course of action is to stay away.”

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69. “I’d never seen her act with such single-minded intensity. No. Obsession. Most days, a ferocious glint lit her eyes – a feral sort of hunger – and others, no light touched them at all. Those days were infinitely worse. She’d watch the world with a deadened expression, refusing to acknowledge me or my weak attempts to comfort her.”

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70. “You met only a few months ago. How well can you really know her? Madame Labelle’s words tormented me. Louder and louder they grew. Louise has started her descent. I know the signs. I’ve seen it happen before. You cannot stop it, and you cannot slow it down.”

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71. “Why must I bind myself to fit your expectations?”

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72. “All seven of us.”

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73. “Evil always seeks a foothold. We must not give it one.”

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74. “I understand your reluctance to confront this, Louise, but closing your eyes will not make it so the monsters can’t see you. It will only make you blind.”

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75. “None know what the water will show them. Desires, fears, strengths, weaknesses, memories – it sees truth and demands truth in turn. All you must do is acknowledge it.”

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76. “When you fell in love, you were enemies.”

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77. “I never said it was your god. Your god hates women. We were an afterthought.”

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78. “Do not mistake me for porcelain. Do not mistake me for weak.”

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79. “No termina con la muerte. Termina con esperanza.”

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80. “You can’t heal a disease with a bandage.”

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81. “They should. I abandoned them. Twice. They’re freezing and starving and so afraid, yet their own princesse couldn’t be bothered to care. I should’ve been here, Lou. I should’ve – I don’t know –.”

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82. “There is no rose without a thorn.”

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83. “You want truth, sister mine? I shall give you truth. You were right before. Without memories of your relationship, you are only a witch to Reid, and he hates you. You are no longer his wife. As far as he knows, you were never his wife. Indeed, he’s probably plotting creative ways to kill you at this very moment.”

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84. “Maybe men can learn a thing or two from women.”

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85. “The hurt is too long and too great on all sides. You can’t heal a disease with a bandage.”

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86. “Her essence infused everything – the sunlight filtering through the pines, the creek trickling beside us despite the cold. Even the wind seemed to dance. It swirled her scent around me, soothing my frazzled nerves like a balm.”

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87. “What about what I wanted, maman? You and tante – all either of you have ever cared about is this stupid feud. I’m the collateral damage, aren’t I? I’m the one who suffers.”

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88. “By the time we burst into the patisserie, our cheeks and noses were red. Our throats ached from laughter. I stared at her as she swept the cloak from my shoulders. She smiled with her whole face. I’d never seen such a transformation. It was... infectious.”

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89. “Why would we lie? Trust us when we say you aren’t exactly fun to be around – not like this anyway. If there was a way for us to reverse your memory, we would’ve already done it.” Coco lifted a shoulder as she stepped on the path. “You’ll need to do it, or no one will.”

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90. “The streets bustled with revelers bundled in coats and scarves, and a light coating of snow dusted everything – the shops, the stalls, the carriages, the street. Wreaths with red bows hung from nearly every door. The wind caught at the ribbons and made the tails dance.”

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91. “You’re the best parts of her, of course. The vitality. The cleverness. The charm. But you are not her, Louise.”

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92. “Let me be clear, huntsman – Louise le Blanc may be the center of your universe, but she is not the center of mine. I have made my decision. Every moment I spend arguing with you is a moment Toulouse could lose his life.”

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93. “There had never been a choice. Not for me. From the first moment I’d seen her at the parade – dressed in that ridiculous suit and mustache – my fate had been sealed.”

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94. “But a mob burning an innocent creature alive sounded exactly like my fight. They would do the same to Lou, if given the chance. The same to Coco. My mother. Me. Familiar anger, thick and viscous, simmered in my gut. These villagers alone weren’t guilty. Though they would slaughter this innocent, Morgane had tortured and maimed my siblings, my brothers and sisters.”

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95. “As they are now also your enemies, I must offer a piece of advice: ’tis dangerous to meddle in the affairs of witches. Forget your vengeance. Forget everything you’ve learned about this world of shadows and magic. You are wildly outmatched and woefully inadequate in the face of these women. Death is the kindest of their torments – a gift bestowed only to those who earned it.”

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96. “Helpless to do anything but cling to Lou. My friend. My shelter. My home.”

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97. “All paths involve considerable risk to those you love.”

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98. “It’s fine not to know. It isn’t fine to stop trying. We have to try, Coco, or we’ll never find it.”

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99. “It’s a gift, Reid. There’s so much more to it than what you’ve seen. Magic is beautiful and wild and free. I understand your reluctance, but you can’t hide from it forever. It’s part of you.”

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100. “Nothing worth having is easy.”

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