The Shadow Bride Quotes

“You’ve never been a coward before. Don’t start on my behalf.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“You’re the sun, Célie. I couldn’t let you die because you are my sun; you are every good thing I’ve ever wanted and never deserved, and once I saw you, felt you, I could no longer live without you. When you aren’t with me, I crave your presence, and when you are with me, I forget the darkness ever existed—you fill up every corner of my vision until I cannot see, cannot think beyond when you might next glance at me, what you might next say. You have blinded me to all others. I couldn’t let you die because you are radiant, and everyone you look upon is brighter for it—better for it—and you don’t even realize. You cannot see the effect you have upon us all.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“You aren’t the Devil—”
“And you aren’t the sun.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“In that case you’re the most insufferable man too.”
“The least infatuated.”
“I never think of you, never—”
“I never imagine you like this,” he snarls. “Above me, below me, around me, your heels digging into my back.” I gasp again at the imagery, and he releases my hip to grip my chin. “Look at me,” he says, and I respond without hesitation, my eyes snapping open to find his blazing with heat. “I never dream about holding you, and I never lie awake until dusk, torturing myself over the way you say my name—like you revere me, like I’m a fallen angel and not the Devil himself.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“When all of this goes tits up, I’m telling the demon to eat you first.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“That is not what we need, Lou. A séance is never what anyone needs.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“Célie. Please hear me now because I will not say it again. I have never cared whether you’re a vampire, whether I am a vampire, and I do not care that we’re human now either. Because you’re right—I have lived a thousand years, and for every single one of them, I’ve been waiting to find you. To be with you like this—it has meant everything to me. You are worth any cost.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“I cannot outrun it. I no longer want to, no longer need to—I am both the candle and the shadow it casts. I am the light in the darkness. And I am the darkness in the light.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“Fine,” I say simply. “You cannot feed from me again.” “Fine,” he echoes. “Never again.” And then I kiss him.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“Hello, pet,” he says through gritted teeth, and his eyes— They’re the last thing I see as my breath hitches, my heart leaps, and my knees collapse.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“Beau leaps from the table, breaking the circle, and clutches his magnificent hair.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“I’m not the king of bears, Cosette.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“I’ll wait until you find me. I will always wait for you.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“When I watched you die on All Hallow’s Eve, I didn’t stop to think; I couldn’t let you go.”
“That doesn’t make you a coward, Michal.”
“And I still wouldn’t, if I had to do it all over again. I’d still turn you into a vampire to keep you forever. If that doesn’t tell you the type of man I am, I don’t know what will.”
“Perhaps forever no longer seems so frightening.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“In an instant, a wide smile splits her face, and she waggles her brows in an extremely Lou-ish gesture. “Shall I direct you to the guest bedroom instead?” If God could choose this single moment to smite me, I might thank him.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“No,” he says in exasperation. “I have never wanted to know anything less—”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride

“Chat échaudé craint l’eau froide. Once bitten, twice shy.”
― Shelby Mahurin, The Shadow Bride