Elyse

“Stop looking at me like that."
"Like what?"
"Like you're hunting me. I'm not an antelope.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“This is a book, and a book is a world, and words are the seeds in which meanings are curled. Pages of oceans and margins of land are civilizations you hold in the palm of your hand. But look at your world and your life seems to shrink to cities of paper and seas made of ink. Do you know who you are, or have you been misled? Are you the reader, or are you the read?”
― Traci Chee, The Reader

“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

“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