Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “But if we wait on this wedding, you can make my dress crimson. I will not wear gold if my Imperial nobility is bought with the blood of innocent civilians who died while I had a party.”

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102. “Larel’s voice was sad and sincere. “Aldrik’s been through a good deal, much of which he’s never even imparted to me. But I’ve seen the edges of the darkness he shoulders. I don’t think he worries for his sanity or his mortality. He doesn’t want you to die because he’s afraid that it would mean he’d have to live without you.”

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103. “You’re right about it all. I wanted you. The moment I found out what you were, I wanted you like a prize to be captured and put on my shelf. And you, Vhalla, you made it so easy to manipulate you to walk right where I wanted you. You, with your transparent innocence.”

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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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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107. “We smell of honey and taste of forgotten dreams. We move like desperation.”

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

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109. “For all his orders and sneers, his commanding presence, and his intimidating always all-black ensemble, Vhalla saw something different. She simply saw someone who was lonely, someone who could likely count their friends on one hand, and perhaps wanted to one day use two hands. He was nothing like the man she first met, the man who wore a mask to meet palace expectations.”

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110. “My bodily needs were met while my soul starved.”

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111. “She could make her office my rose garden, forever, if she so chose.”

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112. “And I’ve found I’m very fond of exactly the woman you are. I wouldn’t change a single thing.”

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113. “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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114. “Mother Sun, woman,” Aldrik.”

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115. “She didn’t make him out to be perfect. Vhalla knew Aldrik was horribly flawed. But so was she. He was prone to anger and she prone to selfishness. But they strove together to be better, for themselves and for each other.”

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116. “Where is she? Is she all right? Baldair, you swore to me you would protect her!” Aldrik’s words sounded half mad with worry.”

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117. “I will be the bud that sprouts from the grey rock of this place. I will be the flower that blooms even despite his shadows” page 83.”

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

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “I might be the forge maiden, but I am no delicate flower. I am as cold as silver. As strong as iron. I will bend for destiny, but not for any man.”

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123. “He would still be that man with whom she had sat on a rooftop at the Crossroads. A man who would have been hers if the stars constellated a different design for her heart.”

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124. “She simply saw someone who was lonely, someone who could likely count their friends on one hand, and perhaps wanted to one day use two hands.”

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125. “Everything you need to be your complete self is already in your possession.”

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126. “Sure, maybe some pieces had to be rearranged. But all the pieces were there. They always had been.”

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “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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130. “She longed for the days where her biggest decision was what book to read first.”

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131. “Love is choice. Just dream, Eldas, and then follow those dreams. I have to go to know.”

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132. “He’s a man of contrasts. Soft and hard. Cold yet he sets me aflame.”

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133. “Creation will happen for its own sake. Things happen, regardless of our intent, and all we can do is judge the result. We were helpless to change it in the process.”

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134. “Tears were going to fall at any moment, and if the two of them were going to break they may as well shatter.”

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135. “You keep looking back. Those decisions have been made and the ink in the history books is already dry. Keep your eyes forward.”

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136. “You, you are not so chained. And so you see the world with eyes that I could never have. You have hopes that no one else would allow themselves to dream of.” Elecia gave the tiniest of smirks. “Forgive me, but I wish not to sway your actions in this matter. I want to see what you will do. I want to know what kind of Empress you will be.”

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137. “It might feel like it happened so recently for all of you. But that’s not the truth. Those people are long dead. Honor them, but do not tie yourself and the present to the past at the expense of moving forward.”

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138. “After that, the Heartbreaker Prince began to have an easier time earning smiles from her. If she did well, he would squeeze her hand. When her eyes finally lifted away from her haphazard movements, she was rewarded with a wink. Slowly, under the prince’s hand and earnest encouragement, Vhalla began to enjoy herself.”

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139. “Do you love her? I do.”

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

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141. “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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142. “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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143. “Davien says little; he leads the pack and broods quite dramatically.”

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

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145. “Is it a good idea to ride like this?” Vhalla asked softly, noticing the glances from the soldiers. “I want them to see you with me.” He responded so quickly that there couldn’t have been any thoughts into his words. “Why?” she breathed. “Because I want them to know that if they lay a hand on you again, they will deal with me directly.”

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146. “Be improper with me, Lady Ci’Dan.” Jax wiggled his eyebrows.”

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147. “Because a wise woman taught me that no soul is beyond saving.”

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148. “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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149. “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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150. “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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