71 Quotes by Elise Kova

"He was going to burn them.He was going to burn them alive.He could do it. He would do it. He must do it. This was his destiny now as the Empire's monster. And what good was a monster if it could not be made useful for killing?"

"Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren’t to be destroyed."

"Well, if my crime is love, then I am indeed guilty"

"She was tired of being a symbol. Symbols were stagnant, frozen, representative, and spurring of action but never the action itself."

"You are a symbol, Vhalla. And, despite what some may have you believe, you have more control over what you symbolize than anyone else.” “I am no one,” she muttered, hearing Aldrik mounting his War-strider. “Even something very small can cast a large shadow when it is close to the sun."

"Is that any way for a lady to sit?" Aldrik teased. "I am a lady, and I am sitting this way: therefore, yes."

"Is that any way for a lady to sit?" Aldrik teased.Vhalla: "I am a lady, and I am sitting this way; therefore, yes."

"She didn’t want to cry anymore; she was tired of feeling weak and sad. She was tired of feeling hopeless, tired of fighting, and tired of feeling like the world was against her."

"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?"

"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."