Top 160 Shelby Mahurin Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Ours isn’t a grand, sweeping romance. We aren’t star-crossed lovers. We were a casual hookup, and that’s all.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

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

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54. “All seven of us.”

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55. “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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56. “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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57. “When you fell in love, you were enemies.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “Everyone here wants to kill or possibly eat you. Shut up, good man, before you lose your spleen.”

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69. “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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70. “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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71. “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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72. “Well, what is it you all usually do during the day?” I made to pull the door to the stairwell but Ansel caught it and held it open for me. Okay, I didn’t just like him – I adored him. “I assume it involves kicking puppies or stealing the souls of children.”

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73. “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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74. “More than once – when she didn’t think I was looking – I’d seen her entire body convulse as if fighting sickness. It wouldn’t surprise me. She’d been through a lot. We all had.”

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75. “Was it because she was still mourning? Because I was? Because she’d attacked her supper like a rabid animal, because she’d only blinked twice in the past hour? I mentally shook myself, irritated with Beau. With myself. She’d been stranger than usual, yes, but that didn’t justify the way my skin crawled when she touched me.”

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76. “It’s a real pity,” Beau finally muttered, shaking his head and looking at each of us in turn. His eyes shone with disappointment. “I know you’re all too preoccupied with your pining to notice, but I just caught my reflection in that last puddle – and damn, I look good.”

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77. “You gave me life,” I continued, stronger now, the words spilling faster than I’d intended. Cathartic. “Of course I loved you. Why do you think I allowed them to chain me to an altar? At sixteen years old, I was willing to die for you. My mother.”

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78. “I knew who you were. I knew what you believed... and I fell in love with you anyway.”

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79. “The implication of his words stung more than I cared to admit, rekindling my anger. I’d only lied to him when absolutely necessary – like when the alternative had been him burning me alive. Or Morgane chopping off his head. Don’t lie to me, he said. Just as sanctimonious and arrogant as he’d always been. As if I were the problem. As if I were the one who’d spent the last fortnight lying to myself about who and what I was.”

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80. “He really was too tall. Abnormally tall. Entirely too big for this small of a space. I wondered if he had some sort of disease. My eyes cut back to his chest. Probably.”

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81. “Heaven forbid anyone know my father cannot control his own household.”

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82. “If you are unafraid to look, darling, you are unafraid to find.”

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83. “You haven’t?” Beau arched a brow in disbelief. “She’s your wife – or lady friend, paramour, whatever label you’ve settled on. Something is clearly wrong with her, brother.”

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84. “The darkness is unyielding as stone.”

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85. “For too long, I’ve sat quietly – watching you drown others, watching you founder yourself – but no longer. I will not let you do this, ma chanson.” He glanced at Lou, and the terrible fury in his eyes softened. “She could have been ours.”

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86. “I had to enlighten you, didn’t I? How can you condemn your culture if you don’t know your culture?”

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

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88. “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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89. “I won’t let her hurt you again, Lou. I’ll protect you. Everything will be all right.”

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90. “These men didn’t realize all the Chasseurs did to ensure their safety. The sacrifices they made. The integrity they held. I eyed the men’s rumpled clothing in distaste.”

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91. “Watching her was strangely exhausting”.”

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92. “Because I wasn’t a witch if I didn’t practice. I wasn’t a witch.”

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93. “You don’t have to be afraid.” If possible, his touch – his lips – turned even gentler. He trailed a finger between my breasts, and fresh gooseflesh erupted in his wake. I shivered, my knees shaking. “Let me show you how much you mean to me. Let me show you how loved you are.” His lips followed after his hand, each kiss reverent. Each a vow. “I’ll never take you for granted. I’ll want you every day for the rest of my life, and I’ll love you even after.”

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94. “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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95. “Lou might not have been the only player on the board, but she was certainly the most critical. Only a fool wouldn’t recognize that.”

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96. “No scar is shameful.”

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97. “The thought of s-sitting at home – curtsying to noblemen, sipping tea – while Morgane remains at large physically sickens me.”

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

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99. “Each of Reid’s smiles – so rare, so genuine – was a gift to me. He couldn’t know how much I cherished them, how I wished I could keep them in my pocket to pull out whenever he felt sad. He felt sad so often. After all this was over, I’d make sure he never felt sad again.”

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100. “There you are, it seemed to say. I didn’t think you’d come. – I promised to love and protect you.”

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