Top 160 Shelby Mahurin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

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

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

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104. “You really love the sound of your voice, don’t you? I never took you for narcissistic. Deranged and fanatical, yes, at times even vain, but never narciss –.”

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105. “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?”

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

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

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

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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “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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114. “I knew who you were. I knew what you believed... and I fell in love with you anyway.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “Heaven forbid anyone know my father cannot control his own household.”

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

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119. “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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120. “The darkness is unyielding as stone.”

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121. “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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122. “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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123. “I won’t let her hurt you again, Lou. I’ll protect you. Everything will be all right.”

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124. “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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125. “Watching her was strangely exhausting”.”

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

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “No scar is shameful.”

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

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131. “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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132. “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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133. “To be near them is to love them. They’re wild and free and excessive. Addictive. They consume us. They make us feel alive.”

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

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

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136. “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.”

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137. “In a single, fluid movement, I sank down, burying him inside me.”

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138. “No. I will not.” “Excuse me?” “I said no, I will-” “I heard what you said. I’m giving you a chance to reconsider.”

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139. “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.”

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

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141. “And we won’t. We will return to Chateau le Blanc for Toulouse. For the wolves. Then we will raze that wretched castle to the ground with Morgane le Blanc and her Dames Blanches inside. This I promise you.”

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

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

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

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145. “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?”

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

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

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148. “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.”

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149. “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 –.”

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150. “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