Top 160 Shelby Mahurin Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “His mouth quirked, and he tentatively touched my shoulder, blue eyes sparkling. Like the sun on the ocean.”

— Shelby Mahurin

102. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

103. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

104. “Nothing worth having is easy.”

— Shelby Mahurin

105. “From the dawn of time, this has been men’s plight – to be tempted by women.”

— Shelby Mahurin

106. “At least my mother can’t kill a skeleton. At least they don’t have uteruses.”

— Shelby Mahurin

107. “There is no solution for grief. Only time.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

109. “Watching her was strangely exhausting”.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

112. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

113. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

115. “Here’s to finding our happiness.”

— Shelby Mahurin

116. “Her soul would take longer to cleanse than a normal person’s.”

— Shelby Mahurin

117. “I became a thief, Manon. I squatted in dirty theaters and stole food from innocent bakers. I did bad things to good people. I killed. I lied and cheated and smoked and drank and even slept with a prostitute once. So it amounts to the same thing. I’ll burn in hell either way.”

— Shelby Mahurin

118. “Our respect had once been mutual. But that was before the envy.”

— Shelby Mahurin

119. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

121. “Sometimes it hurts to remember the dead as who they were, rather than who we wanted them to be.”

— Shelby Mahurin

122. “We were a chasseur, initiate, Lyon prince, and blood witch walking into Chateu Le Blanc blind.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

125. “The darkness is unyielding as stone.”

— Shelby Mahurin

126. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

128. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

130. “Constantin extended his arms. “I am cursed eternal, huntsman, because I yearned for more.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

132. “To be near them is to love them. They’re wild and free and excessive. Addictive. They consume us. They make us feel alive.”

— Shelby Mahurin

133. “Embrace me, Lou,” he repeated my own words back to me, trailing feather-light kisses on my throat, catching my earlobe gently in his teeth. I gasped. Though his body pinned mine to the mattress, he was careful to support his weight with his elbows. I wished he wouldn’t. I wanted to feel him. All of him. “Embrace us.”

— Shelby Mahurin

134. “Regardless of how this plays out in Cesarine, our kingdoms are not aligned. They never will be. We can have no future together.”

— Shelby Mahurin

135. “You were the one who wanted to tear across the kingdom in a mad dash to gather allies. Do you really think Blaise will want to cozy up with the murderer of his child? Why didn’t you mention this earlier?”

— Shelby Mahurin

136. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

138. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

139. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

140. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

141. “I loved Lou. I knew that. Felt it in my bones. I also couldn’t stand the sight of her. What was wrong with me?”

— Shelby Mahurin

142. “It doesn’t matter who holds them. Weapons harm.”

— Shelby Mahurin

143. “Oh, get over it, Jean Luc,” Lou snapped. “You can’t win a dead man’s affection. Even alive, the Archbishop saw you for the sniveling little rat you are –.”

— Shelby Mahurin

144. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

145. “What else was first love good for but bumbling hands and breathless discovery?”

— Shelby Mahurin

146. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

147. “No scar is shameful.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

149. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

150. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin