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1 " Because our love is more than something I can wear. Our time is far greater than what can be counted by two hands and some numbers. Because, even without it, I still have you. "
― Elise Kova , Crystal Crowned (Air Awakens, #5)
2 " 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. "
3 " 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. "
― Elise Kova , Earth's End (Air Awakens, #3)
4 " Stop. Stop trying to make the illusion of strength. You don't need it. Not here. Not now. Let yourself be sad until the real strength returns. "
5 " 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. "
6 " I told you this would never be easy, I warned you. I begged you to spare my heart if you weren’t ready for this fight. "
7 " 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 (Air Awakens, #1)
8 " 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 (Air Awakens, #2)
9 " You have to earn it.' Vhalla didn't know what else to say. She had trusted him, to lead her, to teach her, and he broke that trust. It wasn't as though it was something she could simply start again on command. "
10 " What are you wrapped up in?' Roan whispered. Her anger and frustration had shifted to a sympathy that grated Vhalla.'I'm simply learning where I'm meant to be.' It was the only response because it was the truth. "
― Elise Kova
11 " 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. "
12 " Well, if my crime is love, then I am indeed guilty "
13 " The man’s words were as deep and dark as midnight "
14 " Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren’t to be destroyed. "
― Elise Kova , The Alchemists of Loom (Loom Saga, #1)
15 " I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise. "
16 " 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. "
17 " Is that any way for a lady to sit?" Aldrik teased. "I am a lady, and I am sitting this way: therefore, yes. "
― Elise Kova , Water's Wrath (Air Awakens, #4)
18 " Is that any way for a lady to sit?" Aldrik teased.Vhalla: "I am a lady, and I am sitting this way; therefore, yes. "
19 " Fritz, this is Daniel. Daniel, Fritz," she introduced.Daniel extended his palm in greeting."You best be nice to our Vhal!" Fritz said, ignoring Daniel's hand and pointing in his face."My, you didn't warn me you had bodyguards," Daniel chuckled, taking Fritz's hand from his face and shaking it. "You have my word, only kindness and care from me. "
20 " 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. "