Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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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2. “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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3. “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.”

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

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5. “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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6. “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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7. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “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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11. “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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12. “She was drowning, and they all still thought she was breathing.”

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

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

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15. “Nothing made sense, and she would have him until it did.”

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16. “Let one person say something and give me a reason to burn it all.”

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17. “He traded his freedom for mine,” she whispered. “He was a reckless fool, and I was a girl pulled along by puppet strings. The fire burned too hot, and we didn’t notice until it consumed everything.”

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18. “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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19. “That was only the beginning. I cannot wait to see what madness I will push you to with the rest of me.”

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20. “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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21. “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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22. “Tattoos should be choices, not brands.”

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

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25. “In a horrible way, he was like a song of death and flame.”

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

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27. “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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28. “There was something severed and rough about her, something tainted and, yet, at the same time those jagged pieces were the makings of something fearsome. She’d wanted to become someone the Senate would fear, why not shatter the sky?”

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29. “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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30. “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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31. “Women can create life. Women can tend the fires of the hearth and fight in the wars to defend them.”

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32. “Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren’t to be destroyed.”

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

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

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35. “Fadewalking seems a lot less impressive when an animal can do it too.” I can’t help a grin. Eldas narrows his eyes at me, but his scowl has lost some of its bite. “He can Fadewalk because he is of the Fade – a creature caught in the rift when worlds were severed.” “He’s a good boy, that’s what he is,” I coo to the wolf.”

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36. “The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death.”

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37. “Tell me, Vhalla, what’s it like to find out your prince is a coward? Is weak? Is scared? Is wicked? Is – ” “Human,” she said firmly.”

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38. “Aldrik didn’t look at her as she slipped back into her armor. It was a short walk but the last thing she wanted was to leave a man’s tent – the crown prince’s tent – less dressed than when she came in.”

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39. “Aldrik – the crown prince, the future Emperor, Fire Lord, ruler of the Black Legion, sorcerer – was only a man. And men could be broken.”

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

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41. “I’ve always been... charming.” Prince Baldair smiled at her, and she didn’t even refrain from rolling her eyes.”

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42. “I can’t go back, and neither can you. We both have to move forward and find what beauty we can in the world as it is.” Daniel.”

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43. “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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44. “They wanted to kill her, so this Vhalla would die, she resolved, and a new Vhalla would be born from her ashes.”

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

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46. “As if the Fire Lord would let his dark darling out of his sight.”

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47. “I was raised in a world where I had thousands of friends, each one waiting for me on a shelf every day.”

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48. “Wait,” she paused, “you slept on the couches?” Vhalla rolled onto her side to look up at him. “Of course.” His brow furrowed slightly. “Did you think I would creep into your bed as you slept and spend the night lying with you without your permission?”

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49. “Love, war, life was a series of battlefields strung together with the courage to march forward.”

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50. “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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