Asterin Quotes

“Live, Manon. Live.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Why," he asked. "Why did you save her?"

She dragged a hand through her hair. [...]

"Because that golden-haired witch, Asterin ...," Aelin said. "She screamed Manon's name the way I screamed yours.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“The sunlight gilded the balcony as Asterin whispered, so softly that only Manon could hear, “Bring my body back to the cabin.”

Something in Manon's chest broke—broke so violently that she wondered if it was possible for no one to have heard it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“What is it like? Manon asked quietly. 'To love.' 'It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me.'"-Asterin/Manon”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Bring our people home, Manon.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“And Manon understood in that moment that there were forces greater than obedience, and discipline, and brutality. Understood that she had not been born soulless; she had not been born without a heart.
For there were both begging her not to swing that blade.
Manon looked to the Thirteen, standing around Asterin in a half circle.
One by one, they lifted two fingers to their brows.
A murmur went through the crowd. The gesture not to honor a High Witch.
But a Witch-Queen.
There had not been a Queen of Witches in five hundred years, either among the Crochans or the Ironteeth. Not one.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“At last, Manon found Asterin's gaze, tears now rolling down her Second's face. Not from fear or pain, but in farewell. A hundred years--and yet Manon wish she'd had more time.
For a heartbeat, she thought of that sky-blue mare in the aerie, the wyvern that would wait and wait for a rider who would never return. Thought of a green rocky land spreading to the western sea.
Hand trembling, Asterin pressed her fingers to her brow and extended them. "Bring our people home, Manon," she breathed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“And in the east, slipping over the mountains like molten gold, the sun began to rise.
A hundred years she'd had with Asterin. She'd always thought they'd have a hundred more.
Manon said softly to Sorrel, "Turn her around. My Second shall see the dawn one last time."
Sorrel obediently stepped forward, pivoting Asterin to face the High Witches, the crowd by the rail--and the rare sunrise piercing through Morath's gloom.
Blood stack through the back of her Second's leathers.
And yet Asterin knelt, shoulders square and head high, as she looked not at the dawn--but at Manon herself while she stalked around her Second to take a place few feet before the Matrons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“A merchant came by a few years ago—he told me there was a mortal High King who had set himself up there. But I heard a whisper on the wind recently that said he'd been deposed by a young woman with wine-red hair who now calls herself their High Queen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Su Segunda, su prima, su amiga, sonrió, con los ojos brillantes como estrellas. —Vive, Manon. Manon parpadeó. Asterin sonrió más ampliamente, besó la frente de Manon, y susurró de nuevo: —Vive.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash