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

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

106. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

110. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

117. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

119. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

125. “A Shade of Kiev.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

128. “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

129. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

132. “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

133. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

135. “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

136. “What I can do, however, is show them that where there is darkness, there is light. Where there is evil, there is good.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

139. “It wasn’t anything I did that was the problem, it seemed. It was my mind. My mind, which was so treacherous that it could infect the minds of others without so much as a glance. Because I asked questions.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

143. “The surrealism of our situation hit me so suddenly I stumbled slightly despite the perfectly flat ground.”

— Bella Forrest

144. “At that moment, however, I knew that no other person had ever mattered to me as much as Sofia Claremont.”

— Bella Forrest