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

52. “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

53. “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.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

56. “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

57. “History was meant to serve as a lesson, not a guideline. Errors were meant to be recorded and later avoided, not repeated. Elitism raised the masses once, to the point where the people got angry and toppled entire monarchies. Had we really learned nothing?”

— Bella Forrest

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

66. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

70. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

77. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

79. “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

80. “Amber’s father had once tried to sell her hand in marriage in order to settle his debts.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

82. “I wasn’t sure what to say, so I just held him, feeling him turn toward my embrace. I held him close, letting him grip me as hard as he wanted, until the worst of it ebbed away again.”

— Bella Forrest

83. “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

84. “Look, I’m going to tell you the same thing I told Eric: it’s my death. You both seem to have some stupid expectations about how people should act, and on your deathbeds, you can act that way. Me, I’m going out laughing with my friends, because it was the best part of my life, and the part I want to remember the most. So, you can either be the friend I laugh with, or you can go outside and miss the death day party I’m hosting for myself.”

— Bella Forrest

85. “A Shade of Kiev.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

88. “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

89. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

92. “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

93. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

95. “But the more I thought about it, the more I felt like it was turning a blind eye to the truth. Ignoring evidence to make the narrative work. That’s not who I am or who I want to be.”

— Bella Forrest

96. “There is something about discovering a derelict place that breaks the heart.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

99. “I couldn’t begin to understand the loss he felt, but I wanted to be there to help him through it.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest