Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “No, you’re leaving Midscape. Leaving me. We... I can’t.”

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52. “The majors are enamored with you. They admire your strong and noble nature, your grace, your poise, your stunning intelligence and eloquence, and – after tonight – your inspiring loyalty.” Aldrik sat next to her. “My father excused himself over dinner, likely to hide his face, and the moment they were free of his presence, all they spoke about was you.”

— Elise Kova

53. “If she had everything before, then she wasn’t missing something now.”

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54. “Transform me into someone who can protect all that I love. Everything I’ve ever known. Make me strong enough to defy all that everyone thought I could be, if only for one night.”

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55. “What is this woman to you?” “Vhalla, I need her in so many ways, Mother help me,” Aldrik groaned. “I need her as my redemption, I need her kindness, I need her forgiveness, I need her smiles, I need her humanity, I need her ignorance, I need her innocence, and, yes... Mother Sun, yes, I need her as a man.”

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56. “One of them was Larel Neiress, the woman whom had spent countless hours putting Vhalla Yarl back together after the world had broken her. But this time, her hands had not been there, and Vhalla Yarl shattered into three pieces.”

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57. “She would cut it away. She would cut away the anger, the pain, and the frustration. She’d cut and cut until she was sculpted into something better, something stronger. 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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58. “How many times would she follow the prince into darkness, trusting his light to guide her?”

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59. “Who are you and what have you done with my brother?” Baldair forced out. “Blame the woman in my bed.” Aldrik shrugged, dropping his hands to his sides. “I have little other option!” Baldair said, exasperated.”

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60. “My queen. Those two words are almost as sweet as losing myself in the taste of his mouth.”

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61. “They say make love, not war,” Jax shouted down from the spectators’ ring that lined the training pit. “I frankly don’t care as long as you two get to one or the other.” The peanut gallery burst into laughter. “Is that how you treat a lady, Jax? There’s more to it than just saying hello and putting a sword through her eye!” Daniel jested back. “Mate, if you’re going for the eye, your sword is in the wrong place!” A roar of laughter threatened to deafen them.”

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62. “We made a deal,” I finally whisper.”

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63. “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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64. “You have to earn it.′ Vhalla didn’t know what else to say. She had trusted him, to lead her, to teach her, and he broke that trust. It wasn’t as though it was something she could simply start again on command.”

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65. “They are the ships, and you are the wind. You do no lower yourself to their rules or expectations. You blow in whatever direction you feel is needed and leave them with no choice but to oblige.”

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66. “He wanted her closer, or so he had said. It put butterflies in her stomach as much as it put alarms in her head.”

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67. “What are you wrapped up in?′ Roan whispered. Her anger and frustration had shifted to a sympathy that grated Vhalla.‘I’m simply learning where I’m meant to be.’ It was the only response because it was the truth.”

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68. “They were an equal match with his heartbeat in the back of her mind. His combat prowess flowed through her veins, coupled with the skill Vhalla had gained from months of her own training. They both missed the slack-jaw amazement from the other soldiers. That the Windwalker danced toe-to-toe with one of the greatest sorcerers in the world, that she could best Aldrik as often as he bested her, that the prince seemed to find amusement – even joy – and not frustration at that fact.”

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69. “I find I can’t stand most humans,” I mumble.”

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70. “There wasn’t a clerical solution to nervousness, and she knew of no salves that cured stress. The medicine she needed was bound between leather and delivered with silence.”

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71. “It’s worth it, the chance is worth it. Love is always worth taking the challenge.”

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72. “She was the one in charge of her own destiny; and, now that she knew this feeling, Eira would never let anyone take it from her again.”

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73. “Unfortunately for them, one couldn’t break what was already broken.”

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74. “Now that she had him, all she wanted was him.”

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75. “The man’s words were as deep and dark as midnight.”

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76. “I need her as my redemption, I need her kindness, I need her forgiveness, I need her smiles, I need her humanity, I need her ignorance, I need her innocence, and, yes... Mother Sun, yes, I need her as a man.”

— Elise Kova

77. “Vhalla stared up at him, at those cold judgmental eyes that threatened to pick her apart and lick her bones clean.”

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78. “What does this have to do with me?” It was interesting history, but she didn’t know why it was relevant. “Why did the West want Windwalkers?” Lord Ophain returned her question with a question. She was beginning to see where Aldrik got his teaching style from.”

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79. “She had thought she knew what war was, but as their empty eyes and too-thin bodies etched themselves onto her soul, Vhalla realized she knew nothing at all. They were all boys and girls playing at war, writing their own songs the bards would sing. But the bards never sang about this. Suddenly the faces of the people she had killed came back to her. We are monsters.”

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

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81. “I could spend forever like this. There’s no point in denying it. This prickly, awkward, and somewhat emotionally stinted man has become mine. And whether I intended to or not, I have allowed myself to become his.”

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82. “You can read all the books in this library, be wiser than the master himself someday, and then you will die having never really done anything. You will have only ever lived through everyone else’s experiences.”

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83. “What is wrong is that you cannot learn how to do things from books... They are starting points for principle, theory, and concept. Your mind understands, but your body does not know until you perform the act yourself. Without action and practice, your hands will not oblige. Experience is a far greater teacher.”

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84. “She no longer longed to be anyone more or less than who she was.”

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

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86. “If you do not help us, we will consider you our enemy.” Vhalla paused with a sigh. “Frankly, I don’t care if I am your enemy.”

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87. “Adulthood just meant finding the variety of crazy that resonated the most with you and doing it until you died or it killed you – whichever came first. “Where.”

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88. “Oh? Did you think he was some paragon of purity? I’ve seen him kill girls younger than you. I’ve seen him wind women up to crawl to his bed.”

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89. “The prince’s strength was often touted as being physical. But Vhalla was beginning to learn that the man known for breaking hearts seemed to have a rather large one of his own.”

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90. “You’re not like most of them, are you?” Prince Baldair’s voice was softer than she had heard it before, the jest and levity absent. “Most of them?” she repeated, bracing herself for a parrot comment. “You’re not the first low-born I have invited to lunch.” He leaned back in his chair, food forgotten. “They come in, swoon over my chambers, prattle about the food endlessly, try everything they can to make eyes at me. By the end of it all, they’re belly up and bare on the bed.”

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91. “Davien says little; he leads the pack and broods quite dramatically.”

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92. “Pantheon above save him, he might care for the woman more than he’d ever bargained for. The brash and unfashionable Wraith had lived up to her word from New Dortam. She had stolen his heart after all.”

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93. “But I’m capable of hating a circumstance while still pitying the people trapped within.”

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94. “You’re the first thing I’ve ever seen him want to take for himself.” “What’s your point?” Vhalla knew already she wasn’t going to like it. “That it also means that you are the first thing the world knows it can take from him.”

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95. “Because our love is more than something I can wear. Our time is far greater than what can be counted by two hands and some numbers. Because, even without it, I still have you.”

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96. “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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97. “Mother Sun, woman,” Aldrik.”

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98. “Don’t tell me.” Shades of a healthy Baldair returned as he wheezed for breath. “You two did the do on my couch.”

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99. “I wanted your forgiveness, as though that innocent acceptance would absolve me of all the blood on my hands. I wanted to see you well and happy. I wanted to see you flourish, and I wanted only a small piece. To know that, in you, I had made something good. And I truly wanted to keep you from pain.”

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100. “She waited for him to say something more. The silence held ciphers of truths that lingered between them, written in a script that neither knew yet how to decipher. This would not be the moment they were given sound.”

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