Top 140 Bella Forrest Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.” Edgar Alan Poe.”

— Bella Forrest

2. “Better to remain always self-reliant. Self-reliance means you’re in control. Don’t ever think you need a man for happiness.”

— Bella Forrest

3. “Love and light will always win against hatred and darkness, Emilia. It may take years, generations even but it always eventually will. Always.”

— Bella Forrest

4. “In love, there was no such thing as borrowed time, only the gift of the time we had been given.”

— Bella Forrest

5. “Which is why it’s important to do it. You can’t make things change by sitting around and doing what everyone else does. If I die doing it, at least I’ll die doing something I believe in.”

— Bella Forrest

6. “You push yourself too hard to try to fix things,” I said gently. “Some things can’t be fixed by pushing, and you end up breaking yourself, instead.”

— Bella Forrest

7. “I didn’t even bother to try and get Eva to not speak her mind, because I knew her well enough already to understand that, when she had something to say, she said it. Fearless. Determined. A tornado of fire and brimstone if ever crossed.”

— Bella Forrest

8. “People are scared, you see. But life goes on, now, doesn’t it? No matter what else is happening around you, you’ve just got to keep on living. So it was decided that we weren’t going to stop doing something that has been a tradition in this village for generations.”

— Bella Forrest

9. “Is there only so much pain a man can stand before he becomes irreparably broken?”

— Bella Forrest

10. “Good luck,” he said, then smirked. “Not that you need it.” His words sent a boost of confidence through me.”

— Bella Forrest

11. “No. In my eyes, she was most beautiful because at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.”

— Bella Forrest

12. “I liked her. She was sweet but blunt. Like a sugar-coated hammer.”

— Bella Forrest

13. “It’s called life,” he replied dryly. “Things lose their shine when you get too close to them.”

— Bella Forrest

14. “A pained expression crossed his face as he sighed. “Don’t feel too safe. I’m not a great protector.” I would’ve thought he was just fishing for compliments, except that he seemed completely unable to accept a compliment, and that pained expression was still etched across his face.”

— Bella Forrest

15. “I couldn’t have given him a love like that, and life is worth nothing if you don’t have true love in it. Fortunately, my angel, you’re my true love – the only one I’ll ever need. Men can suck it, quite frankly. I’m happier without one.”

— Bella Forrest

16. “I didn’t need a man in my life – not even a Matrian male – and from all that I’d been told by my mother before she died, I was better off without one anyway. Better to remain always self-reliant. Self-reliance means you’re in control. Don’t ever think you need a man for happiness.”

— Bella Forrest

17. “It wasn’t anything I did that was the problem, it seemed. It was my mind. My mind, which was so treacherous that it could infect the minds of others without so much as a glance. Because I asked questions.”

— Bella Forrest

18. “Slipping gingerly out of bed, half expecting some sort of neat-freak monster to grab me, I pressed my feet to the cold metal floor, letting its chill assure me that this was real. The juxtaposition was too jarring. I couldn’t seem to remember how I’d gotten here.”

— Bella Forrest

19. “I’d seen it before. It was history, repeating itself, over and over again.”

— Bella Forrest

20. “There was hope, now, and my life burned a little bit more brightly than before. I was grateful that he’d invited me along.”

— Bella Forrest

21. “What I can do, however, is show them that where there is darkness, there is light. Where there is evil, there is good.”

— Bella Forrest

22. “Yes, but you love me anyway. Sucker.”

— Bella Forrest

23. “Physical pain comes and goes,” he said. “It’s inconsequential. A means to an end. But the mental pain you experienced will remain with you forever.”

— Bella Forrest

24. “For the first time in a long time, I saw him as a predator and I, his willing prey.”

— Bella Forrest

25. “I haven’t told you thank you yet, have I?” I shifted, uncomfortable, but made the decision not to answer. I really hadn’t done this for thanks, and it made me uncomfortable. I shouldn’t be thanked for doing the right thing – we should all just... do it. Drawing attention to it meant that I had done something extraordinary, but I hadn’t.”

— Bella Forrest

26. “However dangerous this mysterious mission turned out to be, anything was better than death... wasn’t it?”

— Bella Forrest

27. “We were two sides of a coin that someone had flipped, only for it to fall through the bars of a storm drain. We were never supposed to make it, either of us.”

— Bella Forrest

28. “She lit up the darkness surrounding The Shade, and for a kingdom that had no mornings, only eternal night, her light was life.”

— Bella Forrest

29. “At that realization, I swore to myself that through it all, I would always be by his side. Let the sandcastle collapse. In its place, I will build a fortress – one that waves could never destroy.”

— Bella Forrest

30. “It feels like the world keeps spinning faster and faster, and I’m desperately trying to keep up,” I confided, letting my eyes fall shut for a moment. I’ve always been the capable one. Who am I if I can’t help everyone? I’d.”

— Bella Forrest

31. “When she leaned closer and her lips touched mine, I couldn’t bring myself to believe it. I held her waist and drew her closer, practically carrying her so I could plant her on my lap as I once again partook of the pleasures her sweet lips provided.”

— Bella Forrest

32. “Cruelty didn’t have a gender qualifier behind it – it was an ever unraveling human condition, cast out by pride, power, and indifference – and.”

— Bella Forrest

33. “Sometimes the truth could be more painful than living a lie, and maybe this truth was something I would regret discovering. But in the end, reality had to be the wiser and saner path.”

— Bella Forrest

34. “This is exactly why I can’t understand the path of vengeance. No matter how much someone has hurt me, I still find no pleasure in seeing them hurt.”

— Bella Forrest

35. “Numbness was what I craved. It was the rope I used to climb out of the black hole I’d otherwise be trapped in. Numbness was my savior, not my fear.”

— Bella Forrest

36. “After all of this, I was beginning to feel that the way people got news shouldn’t be in the hands of the government, but rather in its citizens’. The motivated few who could keep tabs on those in charge, and make sure they weren’t breaking the rules or abusing their power. Ensure they were doing their jobs, honestly and with integrity.”

— Bella Forrest

37. “I wanted to believe in his strength, in my own perseverance, and in our combined capabilities, but there was little keeping me afloat right now except hope. In a world with nothing familiar, it was all we could cling to.”

— Bella Forrest

38. “Now I realized just how stupid I had been to even think that I might be able to undo a lifetime of love and attraction in just one conversation.”

— Bella Forrest

39. “I want to see our world become that. I want to make it better. I want to make us hope and dream again. And maybe I’ll die in the process, but at least I’ll die believing in a future that’s better than our reality.”

— Bella Forrest

40. “Catching the glint of malice in her eyes came as a wake-up call. I realized in this moment, she was as crazy as I was.”

— Bella Forrest

41. “I deserved the tears that were flooding down my cheeks. I had earned them in blood and sweat, and by defying the odds. I had defied death itself and won, at least for the moment.”

— Bella Forrest

42. “Whatever the case, I’d gained a newfound respect for him, because I knew how hard it was to change yourself – especially without any real support system around you.”

— Bella Forrest

43. “He was, in his heart, an optimist, and he didn’t try to hide it. And I admired him for it. I was too sarcastic to be an optimist, but anywhere I could find a bit of hope, it was beautiful to me.”

— Bella Forrest

44. “But now, as I sat here alone and taskless in the gloom, I didn’t know how to still my mind. Almost decade-old feelings resurfaced, clawing at my chest and heart, threatening to overwhelm me.”

— Bella Forrest

45. “Cornelius’s code with a fine-toothed comb, and was pleased that they hadn’t taken him offline to do it. I didn’t want to delay this conversation while we.”

— Bella Forrest

46. “You are who you choose to be. No matter how much light is shed upon you, if you still choose to remain in darkness, that’s your doing, not anyone else’s.”

— Bella Forrest

47. “I know an excuse when I hear one. Don’t you dare deceive yourself into believing that you’re the victim, Derek Novak.”

— Bella Forrest

48. “Up until the very last moment, Lazar made attempts at enticing Navan into conversation, but Navan was having none of it. I didn’t blame him. His uncle’s moral compass was screwed up, and I could see the frustration Navan felt at Lazar ending up so far down the rebel rabbit hole. I had never believed in the idea of “necessary evils”, and I wasn’t about to start believing in them now.”

— Bella Forrest

49. “I shouldn’t be thanked for doing the right thing – we should all just... do it.”

— Bella Forrest

50. “But you’re mine, Violet Bates. And I’m going to fight for you, beside you, and probably with you, and it will be worth it every single time.”

— Bella Forrest