Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “You’ve struck me as the sort of person who can move mountains with nothing but an almost suicidal, ignorant determination.”

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102. “Do you love her? I do.”

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

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

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105. “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. “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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107. “You won’t ever have everyone love you, just as you won’t have everyone hate you. find the right people to love you and return the hatred of others with ambivalence or hatred of your own.”

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “She tried to make a deal with devils, but she’d forgotten that devils lie.”

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111. “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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112. “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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113. “I was raised in a world where I had thousands of friends, each one waiting for me on a shelf every day.”

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114. “No, you’re leaving Midscape. Leaving me. We... I can’t.”

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115. “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.”

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

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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “How many times would she follow the prince into darkness, trusting his light to guide her?”

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

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123. “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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124. “We made a deal,” I finally whisper.”

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “I find I can’t stand most humans,” I mumble.”

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

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

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

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135. “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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136. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “She no longer longed to be anyone more or less than who she was.”

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140. “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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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. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “Davien says little; he leads the pack and broods quite dramatically.”

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

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148. “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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149. “Mother Sun, woman,” Aldrik.”

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150. “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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