Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “She longed for the days where her biggest decision was what book to read first.”

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

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

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156. “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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157. “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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158. “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.”

— Elise Kova

159. “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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160. “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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161. “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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162. “Home had become wherever he was.”

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

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

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165. “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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166. “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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167. “Just because something isn’t right, doesn’t make it wrong.”

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “Everything you need to be your complete self is already in your possession.”

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

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172. “If my words were silver blades you’d be long dead.”

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173. “We smell of honey and taste of forgotten dreams. We move like desperation.”

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174. “Is it a good idea to ride like this?” Vhalla asked softly, noticing the glances from the soldiers. “I want them to see you with me.” He responded so quickly that there couldn’t have been any thoughts into his words. “Why?” she breathed. “Because I want them to know that if they lay a hand on you again, they will deal with me directly.”

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175. “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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176. “Be improper with me, Lady Ci’Dan.” Jax wiggled his eyebrows.”

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177. “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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178. “Because a wise woman taught me that no soul is beyond saving.”

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

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

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

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183. “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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184. “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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185. “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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186. “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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187. “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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188. “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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189. “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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190. “If someone loves you, truly loves you, it’s because they want to – because they can’t imagine a world in which they don’t. Because you make their soul sing just with your mere existence.”

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

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193. “After that, the Heartbreaker Prince began to have an easier time earning smiles from her. If she did well, he would squeeze her hand. When her eyes finally lifted away from her haphazard movements, she was rewarded with a wink. Slowly, under the prince’s hand and earnest encouragement, Vhalla began to enjoy herself.”

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194. “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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195. “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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196. “Do you love her? I do.”

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

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

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199. “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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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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