Ellie Taylor > Ellie's Quotes

“Well, they’ve come in the wrong season. Autumn dies in the teeth of winter.”
― M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

“Fire needs air to live. Air fuels fire, stokes it, and makes it burn brighter and hotter than it ever could alone. But too much air will snuff it completely, just as too many flames will consume all the air. They are far greater than the sum of their parts together, but are equally as dangerous to each other’s existence.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Fire needs sure to live. Sure field fire, strikes it, and makes it burn brighter and hotter than it are could alone. But too much air will sniff it completely, just as too many flames will consume all the air.They are far greater that the Sun of their parts together, but are equally as dangerous to each other's existence.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Vhalla,” he whispered with a voice as dark as midnight. His nose was almost touching hers.
“Aldrik,” she breathed faintly, as though it was a prayer. No word had ever tasted sweeter on her tongue.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“There are good men among the wicked in this world, donning the fleece of the innocent.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Then I realized I just wanted you around. My days were better when they involved you. I enjoyed your thoughts. It was thrilling to see you discover magic. You had a mad hopefulness about sorcery that I have not felt in almost a decade. I started finding excuses to take you away, not because you needed my teaching but because, because I wanted to see you. I looked forward to our meetings and—like that, Vhalla—your opinion mattered to the crown prince of the Empire. You mattered for who you were, not for your magic and what some dusty texts say Windwalkers may or may not be able to do.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“In a horrible way, he was like a song of death and flame.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“The man’s words were as deep and dark as midnight”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Because, Vhalla, you think and you watch, but you never do. 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

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

“Vhalla blushed and averted her eyes from his handsome face. “It’s still a poor choice,” she whispered. “It always will be.” Aldrik stood. Her breath quickened by his proximity alone. He hooked his fingers under her chin and pulled her face upward gently. “If you want to make the widely accepted appropriate decision, then leave now, have mercy and end this before you entice me further. Because I promise, this will never be easy—for either of us—and I refuse to love you halfway.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“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

“You make me do things far more dangerous than dream. You make me hope, you make me want.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“His silver tongue licked across her intellect, wetting her mental palate for new information.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Do you hold any feelings for me in your heart? Is there a single ember of love that I might, honorably, fan to life once more?”
― Elise Kova, Water's Wrath

“Vhalla Yarl, the Windwalker." Her name on the lips of a stranger made her uneasy, and Vhalla sat back onto her feet to assess him with equal interest. "I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't you."
She laughed bitterly, remembering Elecia's first unappreciative assessment of her months ago. "Sorry to disappoint."
The man tilted his head. "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?”
― Elise Kova, Earth's End

“Flibbet the Peddler has a rule that says, It is a terrifying thing to be truly seen—but it is infinitely worse not to be.”
― J.A. Andrews, The Keeper Chronicles