Top 140 Bella Forrest Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

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. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “The whole time, I was aware of Navan, standing there on the periphery, his eyes following my every move.”

— Bella Forrest

63. “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

64. “No system was worth defending if it didn’t bend for its people.”

— Bella Forrest

65. “What is it with these people and shoving me up against hard surfaces?”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

67. “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

68. “I was in love with Sofia Claremont and the thought of her being my wife was more than anything I could ever ask for.”

— Bella Forrest

69. “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

70. “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

71. “Your blood shouldn’t dictate what you can do as long as there’s willpower.”

— 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. “The group sat in silence, absorbing the information. The whole room felt cramped. It was as though there were something else in the cellar with them, slithering around them, slowly wrapping its coils tighter until it crushed the life right out of them.”

— Bella Forrest

74. “I supposed we were more vulnerable to wondering. Grief did that to you. It made you wish for a life that wasn’t yours. It made you dream.”

— Bella Forrest

75. “It was a silly thing, but if I had learned anything over the last few months, it was that humor was one of the only effective coping mechanisms.”

— Bella Forrest

76. “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

77. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

79. “And it wasn’t just because she was my heart and my life. She was so much more.”

— Bella Forrest

80. “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

81. “Self-reliance means you’re in control.”

— Bella Forrest

82. “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

83. “If you start to doubt him, in any way, you need to listen to your gut instinct. It will never set you wrong. That little voice knows us better than we know ourselves.”

— Bella Forrest

84. “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

85. “We both have certain specialized skills. I can’t waltz into a grocery store and get a job there, or I’d die from boredom, or worse, stage battles with rude customers in the produce aisle.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

87. “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

88. “Family isn’t something you’re necessarily born into.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

90. “I shuddered, a burst of anger at the injustice of it all making me throw back my blankets and look around.”

— Bella Forrest

91. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

93. “Anti-magic seems far less useful than I would have expected,” Aamir said absentmindedly. “You’re still getting pretty hurt.” “I’m not getting pretty dead, though.” Aamir gave Alex a wry look, one eyebrow raised. “I suppose.”

— Bella Forrest

94. “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

95. “Are you okay?” I sat the bowl down and smiled ruefully. “You know, I’ve been getting that question a lot lately, and I think my answer is going to be ‘not really’ for the foreseeable future.”

— Bella Forrest

96. “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

97. “We don’t need more politicians,” I said emphatically. “We need a leader.”

— 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. “Until I was ready, until I could let go of my past, we both knew that we could never really be together.”

— Bella Forrest

100. “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