Elyse

“If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself."
She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. "Miiiiiiiiine!" he says.
"Cut it out." Anna pushes him off, laughing. "You'll get fired. And then I'll have to support your sorry arse for the rest of our lives.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“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

“She was tired of being a symbol. Symbols were stagnant, frozen, representative, and spurring of action but never the action itself.”
― Elise Kova, Crystal Crowned

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