Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death.”

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102. “He was no longer a wildfire burning with rage. He was now the fires of the forges he’d stoked. He burned for a purpose and remained focused on that singular goal.”

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “She longed for the days where her biggest decision was what book to read first.”

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106. “At least if I am to die, then it would be as someone I can look in the mirror.”

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

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108. “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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109. “If things were different, you wouldn’t have been you.” He finally looks back to me. His once icy eyes are now tepid pools as inviting and warm as the creeks I would strip bare and swim in underneath the redwood trees deep in the forests around the temple. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “He was the start and end of her world, the glue holding together her fragile sanity. He was everything, and without him she was lost.”

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113. “You make me do things far more dangerous than dream. You make me hope, you make me want.”

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114. “Erion, how many times must I tell you not to bring me wild women until after dark? It’s distracing.” A man grinned wickedly.”

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

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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “I am a spoiled prince. No matter how unfair it may be, I do not do well being denied something I want, even if it’s self-inflicted. I have hurt you, I have put you in harm’s way, and I will continue to ask this and more of you the longer you stay near me. Yet knowing this, I seem to want you closer even when sense tells me the opposite.”

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121. “Vhalla gave the tiniest of smiles when her eyes fell on Fritz, and he risked breaking his wrist with his frantic, not so subtle waving.”

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122. “Home had become wherever he was.”

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

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

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

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

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127. “You have no idea how long I’ve waited to have you. Claim you. Make you mine beyond recognition.”

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128. “You have a right to nothing of mine that isn’t freely given.”

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129. “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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130. “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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131. “They will weep in the streets, they will name babes after you both!”

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132. “Vhalla wasn’t exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people.”

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133. “My brother played with spell-books, I played with swords. One gives you paper cuts, the other removes your fingers.”

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134. “Vhalla reached out and grabbed the prince’s bandaged hand, clinging to it. His right hand, the hand that had written her letters, the hand that had tangled itself into her hair as she slept, the hand that held her face when he kissed her; it was a wonderful hand of endless possibilities that now rested completely limp in her grasp.”

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135. “The wind bent to her will. She spun in place, starting for the door. She had to find Aldrik and tell him.”

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136. “Vhalla,” he said in a dangerously soft voice, “you may be incredibly special to me, but never lash out at me again.”

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137. “Then, your father was the king married to Alice?” He goes rigid, tense. The muscles in his jaw bulge as he fights back whatever his first instinct told him to say. “He was.” Without another word on the matter, we continue forward. Though I would’ve given anything to stop and probe the depths of the emotions he was trying to hide. What was Alice to him?”

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

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139. “Nothing about him was traditionally handsome, and for it all, he was astonishingly striking.”

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140. “Just because something isn’t right, doesn’t make it wrong.”

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141. “Numbers remained consistent. Numbers and facts attempted to bring order from a chaotic world, to make sense of the impossible. They were the foundation for colossal structures and the tiniest of clockwork machines alike. Ari loved numbers, and not just because they saved her life by keeping her alert in her surroundings.”

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142. “Clara,” he starts slowly. “You cannot just barge in here and talk dirty to me.”

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

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

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

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146. “You are a symbol, Vhalla. And, despite what some may have you believe, you have more control over what you symbolize than anyone else.”

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147. “Who we are is independent of the trauma that tries to mar our souls. It is a part of us, it might teach us, but it does not define us.”

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148. “The Epic?” Raylynn raised her eyebrows. “You actually read through it?” “Of course.” Vhalla couldn’t fathom who wouldn’t finish a book once they’d started.”

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149. “She tried to make a deal with devils, but she’d forgotten that devils lie.”

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

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