Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “They will weep in the streets, they will name babes after you both!”

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

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103. “Love is a dangerous distraction from duty.”

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104. “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.”

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105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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.”

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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “If the cost of my happiness is the world’s judgment, then it is a price I’ll pay.”

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

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114. “Love is choice.”

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115. “The line between genius and madness is so very thin.”

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116. “Leave, and I will find you,” I whisper breathlessly in reply. “Leave me here, unsatisfied and yearning, and I will hunt you down, Eldas.”

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

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

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119. “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.”

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

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121. “They were not a faceless enemy that was half wild and half mad. They were not less than human. They were not different from her just because they came from somewhere else, spoke differently, dressed differently, or looked different.”

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

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

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124. “I don’t want words, I want action. It’s easy to apologize, Eldas. It’s harder to mean it.”

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125. “She had to survive if for no other reason than to spite the world.”

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126. “Do you hold any feelings for me in your heart? Is there a single ember of love that I might, honorably, fan to life once more?”

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

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128. “Then it shall be a fruit that will ripen with time and patience.”

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

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

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133. “I was raised in a world where I had thousands of friends, each one waiting for me on a shelf every day. While you practiced with the bow or sword, I read. The Imperial Library houses my confidants, and I spent nearly a decade hanging onto their every word. I know them well, and if you will stop questioning me, I will be so kind to impart their secrets to you.” Slack-jaws.”

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134. “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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135. “To this world. To the next. To the people we meet between and the bonds we share.”

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136. “Vhalla blushed and averted her eyes from his handsome face. “It’s still a poor choice,” she whispered. “It always will be.” Aldrik stood. Her breath quickened by his proximity alone. He hooked his fingers under her chin and pulled her face upward gently. “If you want to make the widely accepted appropriate decision, then leave now, have mercy and end this before you entice me further. Because I promise, this will never be easy – for either of us – and I refuse to love you halfway.”

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137. “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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138. “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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139. “Don’t let the shadows of the past smother the possibility for a bright future.” It.”

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140. “Vhalla knew she understood love. Love was throwing herself into a sandstorm. Love was braving her darkest fears and battling her demons. Love was a blind dash through a Northern jungle. Love was hopeful words shared across a pillow in the darkness. Love was bravery and – perhaps most importantly – forgiveness.”

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141. “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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142. “Aldrik turned back to the marker. “Dia, I realize you are aware, but your daughter has grown into one astounding woman, and I would be lost without her.”

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143. “Spread your wings, tokshi, and fly. Soar above them, make their eyes tear as they stare into the sun to watch you reach new heights.”

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144. “Home had become wherever he was.”

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145. “They were sending her to war, so she would go and become something they had every right to fear.”

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

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147. “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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148. “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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149. “Just because something isn’t right, doesn’t make it wrong.”

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150. “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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