Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Tattoos should be choices, not brands.”

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2. “I want you to kiss me all over until there is not a part of my body that you don’t know. I want you to explore me with your tongue and fingers. I want you to make me yours as a man should make his wife. I want you to go slow until I am breathless and begging, and then I want you to go hard. I want to shatter together and fall like the silvery arcs of shooting stars as we descend from heaven of our making.”

— Elise Kova

3. “You’re smart and capable and strong and beautiful, and I will not let you forget those things now. I will not let them be diminished.”

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4. “Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you’re taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward.”

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5. “It would inevitable gravitate her into his orbit again, and they would both collapse in on each other like dying stars.”

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6. “I wish I could hate you, you frustrating man,” she breathed hopelessly. “And I wish I could stop loving you, my frustrating woman.”

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7. “You will respect me!” Eldas shouts. “Be someone worthy of respecting first!” I slam the door behind me.”

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8. “She was as beautiful as a rose with thorns twice as sharp.”

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9. “She was drowning, and they all still thought she was breathing.”

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10. “He is like a poisonous flower – stunning and deadly. This, I realize as his eyes flash an even brighter blue, is the face of death.”

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11. “Hang in there. Let me save something, make it, instead of break it.”

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12. “She didn’t want to cry anymore; she was tired of feeling weak and sad. She was tired of feeling hopeless, tired of fighting, and tired of feeling like the world was against her.”

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13. “She had to survive if for no other reason than to spite the world.”

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14. “Arrogance and confidence are not the same, but both will get you killed.”

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15. “He tasted of sweet liquor and every delicious dark dream she’d ever had.”

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16. “Some people can never be hidden; they are meant to be seen.”

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17. “Love is far better to know, even if it slips from your grasp or doesn’t bear fruit like you’d hoped. People who say they regret love, true love, are just bitter liar.”

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18. “She was tired of being a symbol. Symbols were stagnant, frozen, representative, and spurring of action but never the action itself.”

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19. “Spread your wings, tokshi, and fly. Soar above them, make their eyes tear as they stare into the sun to watch you reach new heights.”

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20. “You don’t have to repay someone for their love. It’s given freely.”

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21. “May tomorrow hold every possibility. And may we be bold and hungry enough to take them for our own.”

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22. “Kiss me again,” I demand breathlessly. “Kiss me like you did that night in the castle. Let’s give in to this waking dream, Eldas.” “No,” he murmurs. Everything in me shudders at his denial. But then he pulls me toward him, snaring me with the lightest touch imaginable. “I will not kiss you like I did then.” My breath hitches. Through the fan of my lashes I watch him lean forward. “I will kiss you better.”

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23. “I am too Northern to be Southern. I am too Southern to be Northern. Eastern to be Western. Western to be Eastern. I belong nowhere, and to no one, and it’s all because of some stupid magic and the words of one person – whose name you don’t even know.”

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24. “I love you,” he repeated, a determined fire lighting his eyes. “It is one of the worst things I could ever do,” Aldrik confessed. “I swear to the Mother, I have tried not to damn you with it. But you’re a rather persistent, beautiful presence in my life. And, for once, the silver-tongued prince is tired of pretending.”

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25. “Love is a dangerous distraction from duty.”

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26. “Leave, and I will find you,” I whisper breathlessly in reply. “Leave me here, unsatisfied and yearning, and I will hunt you down, Eldas.”

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27. “I don’t want words, I want action. It’s easy to apologize, Eldas. It’s harder to mean it.”

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28. “Then it shall be a fruit that will ripen with time and patience.”

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29. “Women can create life. Women can tend the fires of the hearth and fight in the wars to defend them.”

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30. “Even something very small can cast a large shadow when it is close to the sun.”

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31. “Why not shatter the sky?”

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32. “She could never, she would never, should never, have this man.”

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33. “Magic, she was discovering, was like poetry. Once you understood the logic, the meter, the rhyme behind it, you could embellish upon it and make it your own. On.”

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34. “I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise.”

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35. “Stop. Stop trying to make the illusion of strength. You don’t need it. Not here. Not now. Let yourself be sad until the real strength returns.”

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36. “I’m very proud to be a man. Men have duties, honors, which we can stand behind and take pride in.” He raised his eyes to look at them. “Abusing a woman – abusing anyone – violates all of those.”

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37. “Let them know.” He shrugs. “This world is dark and the night is unyielding; the least we can do is fill it with sweet, forbidden dreams.”

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38. “Every time, I was “unreasonable” for reading between the lines. But that’s where the truth always lies, isn’t it? The unsaid between.”

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39. “To hack away at the oppressive darkness that continued to try to smother her so she could defend a new dawn.”

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40. “I will ride with you tomorrow,” he promised. “Don’t ride with anyone else. Stay by my side.”

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41. “Would you, Lady Vhalla Yarl, like to someday be the Empress Vhalla Solaris?”

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42. “And I love you, Vi Solaris. I always have, and I always will. My life was never complete until the moment you returned to it. You gave me meaning. You gave me my past and my future.”

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43. “I shouldn’t need everyone to believe in or want the things I believed in and wanted.”

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44. “If the cost of my happiness is the world’s judgment, then it is a price I’ll pay.”

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45. “The line between genius and madness is so very thin.”

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46. “I told you this would never be easy, I warned you. I begged you to spare my heart if you weren’t ready for this fight.”

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47. “Don’t let the shadows of the past smother the possibility for a bright future.” It.”

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48. “I love him, but I am only death. I am death to everyone I love. Someday I will be the death of him.”

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49. “What am I going to do with you?” “Love me forever?” My mouth moves on its own. “Careful, or I just might.”

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50. “Is this what I’ve been running from my whole life? Is this what it’s like to care for someone else? The rogue thought wanders across my mind as I stare up at him. How could I have wanted to hide from this?”

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