Top 140 Bella Forrest Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

3. “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

4. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

23. “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

24. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

26. “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

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. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

30. “As soon as I started walking, my head throbbed with an ache that spread to my whole body. What was a full-body ache called – a way-too-tired-because-I’ve-been-attacked-by-just-about-everything-ache?”

— Bella Forrest

31. “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

32. “Worries, like circling shadows, manifested as memories and fragments of films. My eyes begged the dimming sky outside to make it all go away, but that’s the thing about memories.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “Can an actor ever truly become the part he plays?”

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35. “Funny how anxious expectations and reality often panned out differently.”

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36. “When our lips parted, I found myself gasping for breath, but desperate for more. He held me tight. I sensed his need, his desire for me to stay, when he whispered into my ear: “You don’t want to leave.” At that, I broke down into tears. He was right. Whether I liked it or not, home had become wherever Derek Novak was.”

— Bella Forrest

37. “The excitement I had been feeling before we left slowly drained in the long van ride, leaving a nervous tension that seemed to wrap around my spine and spread into my shoulders and neck. There was so much riding on this mission;.”

— Bella Forrest

38. “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

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “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

43. “The younger will rule above father and brother and his reign alone can provide his kind true sanctuary.”

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44. “He must be afraid – he’d always been a coward. I, on the other hand, was a crazy woman.”

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45. “In the middle of his performance, it dawned on me that this was exactly the effect Derek Novak had on me; one way or another, he always took my breath away.”

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46. “Free will. That term seemed to mean something to him, I realized, as I recalled his answer to a question I’d asked the day before. “Every creature in the universe is born with free will. We can choose to be different, even if we share the same anatomy.”

— Bella Forrest

47. “He liked to say it was more about the act of appreciating beauty than creating anything worthwhile.” “My.”

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48. “Sometimes, choices you’ve made in the past limit the choices you have today.”

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49. “I’d always firmly believed that anyone who wanted to change could do so. It was in everyone’s power to control their actions, and even more so, it was their responsibility. People could struggle with their darkness, but no one was beyond help.”

— Bella Forrest

50. “How did you find us?” Navan asked, his eyes narrowed and glinting with suspicion. “It wasn’t difficult,” Galo replied. “I found a way to sneak into Vysanthe’s orbit and simply followed the trail of chaos.”

— Bella Forrest