Top 140 Bella Forrest Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “I cupped her cheeks with both hands. “I adore you, Sofia Claremont.” I placed a gentle kiss on her forehead, breathing out when her arms snaked around my waist.”

— Bella Forrest

53. “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

54. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

57. “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

58. “All around me, knives tore through the air, bombs exploded, and random shards of metal flew. And we were caught in the center of it all – two lost souls who’d loved one another, once upon a time, now facing the prospect that one of us had to die.”

— Bella Forrest

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “He glanced sullenly toward the door, then back at me with a look of deep resignation in his eyes. “You ready to leave?” I hesitated, not feeling ready to leave this little haven in the slightest, but then nodded. “If you are.” He took my hand and led me toward the door. “I’m not sure I’ll make it halfway down the corridor before I decapitate him, but let’s see how this goes.”

— Bella Forrest

63. “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

64. “I resisted the urge to laugh. Clearly, Angie hadn’t been kidding when she’d said that Bashrik was driving her crazy. And I knew all too well how swift Angie’s justice was when it came to her enemies. I remembered how she’d slipped several spoonfuls of the spiciest chili sauce into the soup of an unsuspecting Andrea, a girl who’d bullied me in junior high. I could still remember her little cheeks puffed out like a squirrel’s as she held her mouth and raced to the bathroom.”

— Bella Forrest

65. “That was why I didn’t want to talk to people. You had to give up a part of yourself to do it, and I wasn’t prepared to share my pain.”

— Bella Forrest

66. “Mother had always told me being Queen of Matrus was like being a clockmaker: you put the right people for the job in the right place, and let them do what they did best.”

— Bella Forrest

67. “What sort of fairness could be achieved when the system itself was no longer impartial?”

— Bella Forrest

68. “He told me things as they were, told me that I could rise up from my past and be better. The reason we could never be together was because I believed that I was irreparable and he didn’t share the same conviction. Being with him meant constantly disappointing him just by being who I was.”

— Bella Forrest

69. “I am not designed for vengeance, so don’t make me die trying.”

— Bella Forrest

70. “With Sofia, it felt like I’d finally found my compass. I knew that as long as I had her, I had someone to keep me grounded, someone to direct my way. If only for Sofia, I had a reason to stay awake.”

— Bella Forrest

71. “Guide their souls into yourselves, Hermessi. Welcome them into your arms. Tomorrow, they will flow with the rivers, they will grow with the trees, they will fly with the winds, and they will grow with the flowers.”

— Bella Forrest

72. “It was obvious to me that all of this was Navan practicing. Practicing using his free will to go against his grain, defy his natural instincts. There was an undercurrent of roughness to his manner, but from what I could tell, he’d learned to control it. To become a master of his circumstances, rather than a victim of them.”

— Bella Forrest

73. “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

74. “I felt a surge of anger at her for disregarding my noble self-sacrifice. I.”

— Bella Forrest

75. “In that moment, I was suddenly grateful to Violet. Compassion burned in her like a beacon, and I couldn’t help but be attracted to it like a moth to a flame. Since my wife had died, I had cut off almost everyone I had known. It was easier that way – easier not to feel. How misguided I was: The feelings didn’t go away. I had just buried them under a veneer of calm. I had become so distanced from humanity, so apart from it, that I had forgotten that life was precious.”

— Bella Forrest

76. “Trying to make sense of rules that didn’t make sense was rather a losing proposition.”

— Bella Forrest

77. “A Shade of Kiev.”

— Bella Forrest

78. “To have her respond in kind, unhindered by the Elder, was an ecstasy I wanted to lose myself in forever.”

— Bella Forrest

79. “Like a starved plant, that lack of spotlight made her gnarled and twisted, sapping her of compassion and righteousness.” Tobe, my man, you’re a freaking poet.”

— Bella Forrest

80. “I was going to drive that stake through his heart to protect the woman I loved.”

— Bella Forrest

81. “Too many people were finding things out about you – you needed to be more careful, but you didn’t seem worried. A secret is only a secret if one person knows it. After it spreads beyond one person, it becomes a liability, and that’s what you were becoming.”

— Bella Forrest

82. “Annora was going to rue the day she ever messed with a Novak.”

— Bella Forrest

83. “It was frantic, his hands on my hips, running up the curves of my waist, bringing me as close to him as possible. His kisses weren’t soft or delicate, but that wasn’t what I wanted anyway. I wanted passion and fire, to remind me I was alive.”

— Bella Forrest

84. “By genetics and upbringing, I was fated to follow the same path as them – just like so many young adults with dysfunctional childhoods who fell by the wayside later in life. But, by God, I wasn’t going to let that happen to me. I wasn’t going to be the repeat of an old song; I was going to be the damn definition of avant-garde.”

— Bella Forrest

85. “How much of this universe am I ignorant of? I feared the answer to that question was far more profound than I could imagine.”

— Bella Forrest

86. “He never caved in, always searching for the solution, rather than allowing himself to be consumed by the problem.”

— Bella Forrest

87. “The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.”

— Bella Forrest

88. “Isn’t that the point of love – to be ridiculous with, to, and for each other?”

— Bella Forrest

89. “What sort of choice was that? Death or blind obedience? I wasn’t sure there was a difference.”

— Bella Forrest

90. “Once something was done, it could never be undone, but it could always be improved upon.”

— Bella Forrest

91. “Even as he started running, I couldn’t stop kissing every part of his skin that I could reach. I’d been scheming how to get back at Annora. But now I realized I really didn’t need to. Caleb had already chosen me. And that was enough to cut her deeper than anything I could possibly do to.”

— Bella Forrest

92. “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.”

— Bella Forrest

93. “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

94. “His confidence was something that I admired – he wasn’t cocky or arrogant, but pragmatic. He simply knew what he was capable of.”

— Bella Forrest

95. “All we do is stumble about, seeking our own pleasure at the expense of others with no idea of the heavy fate that hangs over our heads. There is such profound evil in this world. I feel the roots of it deep within the universe, which is sinking into darkness and despair because of the everyday actions of each and every being across all the planes. When the end comes for us all, maybe it will be for the best.”

— Bella Forrest

96. “Squire Liana, by my power as a Knight Commander of the Citadel, you are to seek Medica treatment tomorrow. There will be no arguments, no exceptions, and no complaints. You will serve the Tower.” My mother’s words held the ring of finality to them.”

— Bella Forrest

97. “Did we all, in our own ways, push our feelings aside into tidy compartments to make room for the difficult parts of life?”

— Bella Forrest

98. “I was alone. Completely and abjectly alone. Maybe not in the physical sense, but certainly in my soul, where I was trapped by memories of what had been and dreams of what could’ve been.”

— Bella Forrest

99. “But you know what? I’ve had some of the best times just turning my back on the system. If I died tomorrow, at least I led a life that it felt like I was living, you know?” “Even if you’re on the run and are hunted for being different?” “Especially then,” he said softly, his voice ringing with conviction. “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

100. “For, in the end, that is all life is – a series of teachings that we may choose to accept or reject,” he replied. “Mistakes and failures are guaranteed, but it is how we choose to educate ourselves after we stumble that molds who we become.”

— Bella Forrest