Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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.”

— Elise Kova

103. “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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104. “How many times would she follow the prince into darkness, trusting his light to guide her?”

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105. “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.”

— Elise Kova

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

— Elise Kova

107. “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.”

— Elise Kova

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

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109. “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.”

— Elise Kova

110. “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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111. “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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112. “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.”

— Elise Kova

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

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

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

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

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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.”

— Elise Kova

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.”

— Elise Kova

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.”

— Elise Kova

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

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124. “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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125. “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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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “Davien says little; he leads the pack and broods quite dramatically.”

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

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132. “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.”

— Elise Kova

133. “Mother Sun, woman,” Aldrik.”

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134. “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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135. “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.”

— Elise Kova

136. “They will weep in the streets, they will name babes after you both!”

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137. “No matter how far we go, the Tower takes care of its own.”

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138. “You foolish idiot,” he suddenly rasped, drawing himself to his feet. “You went without orders from your superior. You ignored the call. You could have killed yourself, you dumb girl.” Vhalla shrunk back as though he’d slapped her. “And you stopped the storm.” He sat heavily on the edge of her bed. Without hesitation, Aldrik reached up and cupped her cheek gently. “You foolish, amazing, astounding woman, you saved us all.”

— Elise Kova

139. “Vhalla held her tongue that “backward and barbaric” were often times only used when one culture didn’t properly understand another.”

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140. “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.”

— Elise Kova

141. “Aldrik,” she said stubbornly, “I survived the Night of Fire and Wind, an assassination attempt, a fall from the Pass, a run alone through the North.” Vhalla took a step away and pulled his hands from her shoulders. “I’ve killed more people than I have fingers. I’m not the girl you found in the library, and I can protect myself.”

— Elise Kova

142. “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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143. “Vhalla was tempted to show them all exactly how she’d gotten the title of the Hero of the North. She’d reaped destruction and rained hellfire upon her enemies. Vhalla straightened, holding herself taller. But she’d also earned her title and freedom by playing this noble game. If they wanted her to play, then she would show them how to play to win.”

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144. “Reading the books, I’ve always loved reading. It was easier than talking. Like a child playing games.”

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145. “Love is choice.”

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146. “Neither of them were wrong, neither right. Simply different.”

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147. “Death keeps a summer home in this forsaken place.”

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148. “As Jax went to knock on the door, she nearly stopped him. But the opportunity was eliminated as his knocks faded into silence. “Who?” A sleep-hazy voice called. “Your blushing princess,” Jax called in a girlish falsetto. “Go away, Jax.”

— Elise Kova

149. “It would be torture. But it would be the most beautiful torture they had ever known.”

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150. “There are good men among the wicked in this world, donning the fleece of the innocent.”

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