Top 200 Elise Kova Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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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152. “Everything you need to be your complete self is already in your possession.”

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153. “The fires of Solaris, the fires of justice, burn bright and hot. The sun is rising, and it will cast this darkness from the earth. We will end the Supreme King.”

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

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

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156. “Even something very small can cast a large shadow when it is close to the sun.”

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157. “Some people can never be hidden; they are meant to be seen.”

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

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159. “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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160. “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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161. “Be improper with me, Lady Ci’Dan.” Jax wiggled his eyebrows.”

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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. “May tomorrow hold every possibility. And may we be bold and hungry enough to take them for our own.”

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

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165. “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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166. “Well, if my crime is love, then I am indeed guilty.”

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

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

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

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170. “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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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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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176. “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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177. “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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178. “An arm closes around me and the blade of a dagger is at my throat. “King Eldas!” Aria shouts over my shoulder. My ears ring. I was right; it was her all along. I’ve never been so angry about being correct. “If you won’t parlay with us for your dear brother, then perhaps your queen?”

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179. “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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180. “I love him, but I am only death. I am death to everyone I love. Someday I will be the death of him.”

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181. “Why not shatter the sky?”

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182. “You show up as if you materialize from the wind itself, to save the life of the crown prince whom you jumped off the side of the Pass in an attempt to save. You’re unassuming, you’re filthy, and you’re soaked in what I can only presume to be the blood of our enemies.” A grin slowly spread across Jax’s face, like that of a rabid beast. “Who said anything about being disappointed?”

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

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185. “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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186. “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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187. “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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188. “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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189. “Do you love her? I do.”

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190. “What am I going to do with you?” “Love me forever?” My mouth moves on its own. “Careful, or I just might.”

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191. “I want a place you hardly dare to even whisper. I want the bravery to not only read, but to do. I want a man, not a library boy. A man who is tall and witty and knows more about the world than you would ever dare dream.”

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

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193. “You wished for time,” Aldrik explained. “I heard each utterance when you beseeched time to stop, for mornings not to come. I want you to know I shared your every sentiment. I wanted to give you the promise of my minutes, my hours, my days.” His long fingers curled around hers, around the watch. “My future is yours, Vhalla Yarl.”

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194. “She had two choices. One was to continue lying there, doing nothing. The other was to get up and defy all odds. To reach and try for something that the world didn’t think she should have.”

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

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196. “Be someone worthy of respecting first!”

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “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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200. “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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