Top 140 Bella Forrest Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

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

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107. “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

108. “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

109. “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.”

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110. “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?”

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111. “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

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

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113. “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

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

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

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

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117. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

119. “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.”

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120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

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

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124. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

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128. “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

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

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

— Bella Forrest

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

136. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

138. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

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141. “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.”

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142. “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.”

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143. “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

144. “A Shade of Kiev.”

— Bella Forrest