Elise Kova > Quotes

“I am going to go into this world, and I don't care if you and your narrow mind cannot be a part of it.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Even something very small can cast a large shadow when it is close to the sun.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“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.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“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.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Reading the books, I’ve always loved reading. It was easier than talking. Like a child playing games.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“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.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“You will respect me!” Eldas shouts. “Be someone worthy of respecting first!” I slam the door behind me.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“They were sending her to war, so she would go and become something they had every right to fear.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“I was raised in a world where I had thousands of friends, each one waiting for me on a shelf every day.”
― Elise Kova, Earth's End

“To this world. To the next. To the people we meet between and the bonds we share.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“I am not made for dreams. I am made to rule.”
“I think you’re made for whatever you want to be.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“Tell me, Vhalla, what’s it like to find out your prince is a coward? Is weak? Is scared? Is wicked? Is—” “Human,” she said firmly.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“There was something severed and rough about her, something tainted and, yet, at the same time those jagged pieces were the makings of something fearsome. She'd wanted to become someone the Senate would fear, why not shatter the sky?”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Vhalla wasn’t exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Some people can never be hidden; they are meant to be seen.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you're taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward.”
― Elise Kova, Crystal Crowned

“To tomorrow.”
“What’s tomorrow?”
“Everything. May tomorrow hold every possibility. And may we be bold and hungry enough to take them for our own.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“She had to survive if for no other reason than to spite the world”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“They wanted to kill her, so this Vhalla would die, she resolved, and a new Vhalla would be born from her ashes.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Love is choice”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“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.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“You bastard.” The words were out before she even had time to consider them, but after spoken she hardly regretted them.
“What did you say?” Prince Aldrik snarled.
“You, my prince ,” she sneered in kind. “You are a self-centered, egotistical, self-absorbed, narrow-sighted, vain, self-important,” she felt her anger finally reach its boiling point, “conceited bastard !” Vhalla cried out.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“I can leave.” Yet, as he speaks, his body contradicts him. He continues to kiss me. His hand hitches up my shirt, sliding over the plane of my stomach. How I’ve longed for him to touch me there again… “Leave, and I will find you,” I whisper breathlessly in reply. “Leave me here, unsatisfied and yearning, and I will hunt you down, Eldas.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“I have a right to know your true name.”
“You have a right to nothing of mine that isn’t freely given.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“What is wrong is that you cannot learn how to do things from books...They are starting points for principle, theory, and concept. Your mind understands, but your body does not know until you perform the act yourself. Without action and practice, your hands will not oblige. Experience is a far greater teacher.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Let one person say something and give me a reason to burn it all.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Either way, consider me your sword, Vhalla Yarl.”
“Then consider me your wind.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Aldrik — the crown prince, the future Emperor, Fire Lord, ruler of the Black Legion, sorcerer — was only a man. And men could be broken.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“He tasted of sweet liquor and every delicious dark dream she’d ever had.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Kiss me again,” I demand breathlessly. “Kiss me like you did that night in the castle. Let’s give in to this waking dream, Eldas.” “No,” he murmurs. Everything in me shudders at his denial. But then he pulls me toward him, snaring me with the lightest touch imaginable. “I will not kiss you like I did then.” My breath hitches. Through the fan of my lashes I watch him lean forward. “I will kiss you better.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King