Blood & Honey Quotes

“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.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Sometimes when I look at you, I can’t breathe.” My hand moved to his belt. “I can’t think. I can’t function until you look back. And when you give me this smile”—I brushed my knuckle against his dimple—“it’s like a secret just for the two of us. I don’t think I ever love you more than when you smile at me.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Nothing worth having is easy.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Evil always seeks a foothold. We must not give it one.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“A snake,” I replied, breath hitching. “I suppose . . . I’m a snake. A liar. A deceiver. Cursed to crawl on my belly and eat dust all the days of my life.”
“Ah.” To my surprise, Claud’s face didn’t twist in disgust or revulsion. He nodded instead, a knowing smile playing on his lips. “Yes, I would agree with that assessment.”
Humiliation hung my head. “Right. Thanks.”
“Louise.” A single finger lifted my chin, forcing me to look at him. Those eyes, once warm, now blazed with intensity, with conviction. “What you are now is not what you’ve always been, nor is it what you always will be. You are a snake. Shed your skin if it no longer serves you. Transform into something different. Something better.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“You see magic as a weapon, Reid, but you’re wrong. It simply . . . is. If you wish to use it for harm, it harms, and if you wish to use it to save . . . Together, we looked to Toulouse, who tucked a flower behind the woman’s ear. She beamed at him before rejoining the crowd. It saves.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Where you go, I go, remember? You’re all I have now. I can’t lose you too.”
I crept into his lap. “What am I, Reid? Say it again.”
“You’re a witch.”
“And what are you?” He didn’t hesitate, and my heart swelled.
“I am too.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“A name isn’t a person. I don’t care what a stupid piece of paper says hers is. I made a vow, and I will honor it. Besides,” I muttered, “these girls look like birds.”
These girls aren’t Lou.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Can people be born evil?” I shook my head. “I don’t think so either. I think she lost herself somewhere along the way. It’s easy to do with magic.” When I tensed, she turned to face me. “It’s not like you think. Magic isn’t . . . well, it’s like anything else. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. It can be addictive. My mother, she—she loved the power, I suppose.” She chuckled once. It was bitter. “And when everything is a matter of life and death for us, the stakes are higher. The more we gain, the more we lose.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“You stink, taeae. And proper knights don’t stink. How can you rescue your fair maiden if she can’t stand the smell of you?”
Fighting her own grin, Madame Labelle braced my other side. “Perhaps his fair maiden doesn’t need rescuing.”
“Perhaps she will rescue him,” Victoire called over her shoulder.
“Perhaps they will rescue each other,” Violette snapped back.
“Perhaps we will,” I murmured, feeling lighter than I’d felt in ages.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“What are you?” He chuckled, his eyes cutting to mine.
“I simply . . . am.”
“That’s not an answer.”
“Of course it is. Why must I bind myself to fit your expectations?”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“You can’t imagine how toothsome you look right now, Reid.” Grinning wickedly, elbow still linked with mine, she spun into my arms and kissed me full on the mouth. I must’ve been insane because I kissed her back, until— “Toothsome?” I pulled away, frowning. Adrenaline pounded in my chest. “Not sure I like that—”
“Why not? It means I want to eat you alive.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Quand le vin est tiré, il faut le boire. When the wine is drawn, one must drink it. —French proverb”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Allow me to fill in the gaps for you.” I kissed his nose. “You are a huntsman.” Though he recoiled slightly, I didn’t let him escape, kissing his cheek. “You are a son.” I kissed his other cheek. “You are a brother.” His forehead. “You are a husband.” His eyelids and his chin. “You are brave and strong and good.” And, finally, his lips. “But most important, you are loved.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“I’m a piece of shit,” she finally mumbled, not lifting her head.
“Nonsense.” In a practiced movement, I parted her hair, dividing each half into three sections near her crown. “You smell much better than shit.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“A name isn't a person.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“The more we gain, the more we lose.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“I want to know all your secrets.”
“My secrets are ugly, Reid.”
“Not to me.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Despite her bare skin against mine, she wore secrets like armor, and she shed them for no one. Not even me. Especially not me.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Your chivalry is noted, husband mine, and shall be thusly rewarded.”
He pulled me into a hug, his smile genuine now. And shamefully relieved. “I would’ve eaten it.”
“I should’ve let you.”
“And now all of you will go hungry,” Beau said.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“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, Blood & Honey

“Why must I bind myself to fit your expectations?”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Did you steal it, Lou? The truth, please.”
“Well, that was dripping with condescension. Shall we try again?”
With an exasperated sigh, he turned his head to kiss my fingers. “You’re impossible.”
“I’m impractical, improbable, but never impossible.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“That wasn’t living. That was surviving. Besides, without . . . all of this”—she gestured around us—“who am I?”
The urge to seize her had been overwhelming. Instead, I’d leaned low—until we were eye to eye and nose to nose—and said fiercely, “You are everything.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“A snake,” I replied, breath hitching. “I suppose . . . I’m a snake. A liar. A deceiver. Cursed to crawl on my belly and eat dust all the days of my life.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Cualquier cosa que merezca la pena conlleva un esfuerzo.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Los hijos del rey

“La amaba.
Y si tenía que huir, esconderme y luchar para proteger nuestro amor, lo haría. Lo haría durante el resto de mi vida.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“I wish we could live here forever. But the longer we stay, the more it's like- like we're stealing moments of happiness. Like these moments aren't ours at all.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“But you owe no one unconditional love. Take it from someone who knows—when a person brings you more hurt than happiness, you’re allowed to let them go. You do not have to follow them into the dark.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“It doesn't matter who holds them. Weapons harm.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey