Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “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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154. “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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155. “Vhalla was discovering that the path to being the person she wanted to be had no end point. There would always be room for her to adapt, to change, and to improve.”

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156. “Home. This magnificent palace had been her home since she was eleven. She’d came to it as a farmer’s daughter, and now she’d leave it as a soldier.”

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “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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160. “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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161. “Just like that, the world changed. Aldrik held out both hands before her and helped her to her feet. Vhalla stood, not as a common-born library girl, a soldier, a sorcerer, or a lady, but as an Empress.”

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162. “We all know the story. We heard it not long after the Night of Fire and Wind. You were the low born library girl turned sorceress who rode with princes.”

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163. “Our song, lurked in crypts of kings gone by.” I shift my fingers on the neck, transitioning back to the verse, now playing each note in harmony as I find the melody once more.”

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164. “Kiss me and we’ll both make it out of this unscathed.”

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165. “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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166. “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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167. “I find I can’t stand most humans,” I mumble.”

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “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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171. “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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172. “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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173. “Love is choice.”

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

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

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

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177. “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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178. “But no matter how dark the night, I refuse to give up hope of the dawn.”

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179. “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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180. “Mother Sun, woman,” Aldrik.”

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181. “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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182. “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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183. “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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184. “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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185. “Unfortunately for them, one couldn’t break what was already broken.”

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186. “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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187. “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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188. “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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189. “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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190. “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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191. “Everything you need to be your complete self is already in your possession.”

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

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193. “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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194. “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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195. “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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196. “Hate you. Love you. But I can’t be nothing to you.”

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

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

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199. “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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200. “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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