Nesta Quotes

“I think Nesta feels everything— sees too much; sees and feels it all. And she burns with it. Keeping that wall up helps from being overwhelmed, from caring too greatly.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I looked at my sister, really looked at her, at this woman who couldn’t stomach the sycophants who now surrounded her, who had never spent a day in the forest but had gone into wolf territory… Who had shrouded the loss of our mother, then our downfall, in an icy rage and bitterness, because the anger had been a lifeline, the cruelty a release. But she had cared—beneath it, she had cared, and perhaps loved more fiercely than I could comprehend, more deeply and loyally.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Nesta lifted her chin. “I…” I’d never seen her stumble for words. “I do not want to be remembered as a coward.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I made it give something back,” she said with terrifying quiet”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“No one is going to fight to save the humans beneath the wall. No one cares. But I do.” She toyed with a fold in her dress. “I do.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Nesta studied me for a long moment. And then she said with equal quiet, though we could all hear, “I can’t get into a bathtub, anymore. I have to use buckets.”
I hadn’t known—hadn’t even thought that bathing, submerging water…”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Nesta was sprawled upon the stones. I knew that she was different. From however Elain had been Made… Nesta was different. Even before she took her first breath, I felt it. As if the Cauldron in making her … had been forced to give more than it wanted. As if Nesta had fought even after she went under, and had decided that if she was to be dragged into hell, she was taking that Cauldron with her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“What if I tell you what the rock and darkness and sea and beyond whispered to me, Lord of Bloodshed? How they shuddered in fear, on that island across the sea. How they trembled when she emerged. She took something—something precious. She ripped it out with her teeth. What came out was not what went in.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Why do you push everyone away but Elain?” Why have you always pushed me away?
Some emotion guttered in her eyes. Her throat bobbed. Nesta shut her eyes for a moment, breathing in sharply. “Because—”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“—Hace quinientos años luché en campos de batalla no muy lejos de esta casa. Luché junto a humanos e inmortales, sangré con ellos. Y voy a volver a estar de pie en este campo de batalla, Nesta Archeron, para proteger esta casa.., para proteger a vuestro pueblo. No puedo pensar en una manera mejor que terminar mi existencia que defendiendo a los que más lo necesitan.

Vi una lágrima sobre la mejilla de Nesta. Y vi como Cassian levantaba una mano para enjugársela.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I’d forgotten how cunning her eyes were, how cold. She’d been made differently, from something harder and stronger than bone and blood. She was as different from the humans around us as I had become.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“My sister had barely spoken, barely eaten these past few days. Had not visited Cassian in his healing bed. Still had not talked to me about what had happened.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“It was some distant thing,” she said. “War. Battle. It’s… it’s not anymore. I will help, if I can. If it means… telling them what happened.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“No wonder she didn’t wish to speak to anyone about it—didn’t wish to bear witness on our behalf. It had been mere seconds for us while she’d gone under. I had never asked either of my sisters how long it had been for them inside that Cauldron.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“The eldest one’s face softened. “It is no easy choice, girl—”
“It is the choice of cowards,” Nesta snapped.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Nesta fought every step of the way. She did not make it easy for them. She clawed and kicked and bucked. And it was not enough. And we were not enough to save her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Steel filled eyes cut to me. “If I had stayed to practise—" […] “What do I do now?”
A purpose, I realised. Assigning her the task of finding a way to repair the holes in the wall… it had given my sister what perhaps our human lives had never granted her: a bearing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“We have servants here. With families. There are children in these lands. And you mean to leave us all in the hands of the Fae?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury