Fire Falling Quotes

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

“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

“Tell me, Vhalla, what’s it like to find out your prince is a coward? Is weak? Is scared? Is wicked? Is—” “Human,” she said firmly.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“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

“She had to survive if for no other reason than to spite the world”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“You’re the first thing I’ve ever seen him want to take for himself.” “What’s your point?” Vhalla knew already she wasn’t going to like it. “That it also means that you are the first thing the world knows it can take from him.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Let one person say something and give me a reason to burn it all.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Either way, consider me your sword, Vhalla Yarl.”
“Then consider me your wind.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Aldrik — the crown prince, the future Emperor, Fire Lord, ruler of the Black Legion, sorcerer — was only a man. And men could be broken.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

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

“I love him, but I am only death. I am death to everyone I love. Someday I will be the death of him.”
― 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

“Tears were going to fall at any moment, and if the two of them were going to break they may as well shatter.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Unfortunately for them, one couldn’t break what was already broken.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Why not shatter the sky?”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“One of them was Larel Neiress, the woman whom had spent countless hours putting Vhalla Yarl back together after the world had broken her. But this time, her hands had not been there, and Vhalla Yarl shattered into three pieces.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“I love you,” he repeated, a determined fire lighting his eyes. “It is one of the worst things I could ever do,” Aldrik confessed. “I swear to the Mother, I have tried not to damn you with it. But you’re a rather persistent, beautiful presence in my life. And, for once, the silver-tongued prince is tired of pretending.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Is it a good idea to ride like this?” Vhalla asked softly, noticing the glances from the soldiers. “I want them to see you with me.” He responded so quickly that there couldn’t have been any thoughts into his words. “Why?” she breathed. “Because I want them to know that if they lay a hand on you again, they will deal with me directly.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“The prince closed the tent flap behind him and did a short circle around her, assessing Vhalla from head to toe. “Sit.” He motioned to a chair. “Or perhaps you’d rather I threw some pillows on the floor?” Vhalla’s eyes widened, hearing the meaning between his words. “You look uncomfortable.” The prince paused, his eyes reading hers. “I would think you’d be more at ease in a prince’s tent. Or is it just my brother’s?” “What do you want?” she demanded. “Today, I saw him in you.” Baldair squinted his eyes, as if he was trying to imagine Aldrik imposed atop her. “The way you moved, the way you were rushed by the fight. Tell me, is that the only way he’s been in you?”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“I am a spoiled prince. No matter how unfair it may be, I do not do well being denied something I want, even if it’s self-inflicted. I have hurt you, I have put you in harm’s way, and I will continue to ask this and more of you the longer you stay near me. Yet knowing this, I seem to want you closer even when sense tells me the opposite.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“You foolish idiot,” he suddenly rasped, drawing himself to his feet. “You went without orders from your superior. You ignored the call. You could have killed yourself, you dumb girl.” Vhalla shrunk back as though he’d slapped her. “And you stopped the storm.” He sat heavily on the edge of her bed. Without hesitation, Aldrik reached up and cupped her cheek gently. “You foolish, amazing, astounding woman, you saved us all.”
― 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

“Now that she had him, all she wanted was him.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Wait,” she paused, “you slept on the couches?” Vhalla rolled onto her side to look up at him. “Of course.” His brow furrowed slightly. “Did you think I would creep into your bed as you slept and spend the night lying with you without your permission?”
― 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

“Then it shall be a fruit that will ripen with time and patience.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“She could never, she would never, should never, have this man.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“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

“Mother Sun, woman,” Aldrik”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“He wanted her closer, or so he had said. It put butterflies in her stomach as much as it put alarms in her head.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling