Top 160 Shelby Mahurin Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

105. “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

106. “You cannot escape us, Reid Labelle. We are part of you. As if to prove its words, it latched tighter, the pressure in my head building – painful now – as tendrils of gold snaked outward, stabbing deep and taking root. Into my mind. My heart. My lungs. I choked on them, struggling to breathe, but they only pressed closer. Consuming me. For so long we have slept in the darkness, but now, we are awake. We will protect you. We will not let you go. Seek us.”

— Shelby Mahurin

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

110. “It’s an unfortunate fact the two didn’t remain together after the birth of their dear daughter, but such is the nature of relationships nourished solely by appetites of passion.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

112. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

116. “The darkness is unyielding as stone.”

— Shelby Mahurin

117. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— 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. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

134. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

136. “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

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

— Shelby Mahurin

138. “Would my soul remember him? A small part of me prayed I wouldn’t, but the rest knew better. I loved him. Deeply. Such a love was not something of just the heart and mind. It wasn’t something to be felt and eventually forgotten, to be touched without it in return touching you. No... this love was something else. Something irrevocable. It was something of the soul.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

140. “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

141. “No scar is shameful.”

— Shelby Mahurin

142. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

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

— Shelby Mahurin

144. “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

145. “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

146. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

147. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

148. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

149. “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.”

— Shelby Mahurin

150. “His mouth quirked, and he tentatively touched my shoulder, blue eyes sparkling. Like the sun on the ocean.”

— Shelby Mahurin