Top 140 Bella Forrest Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Amber’s father had once tried to sell her hand in marriage in order to settle his debts.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

103. “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

104. “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

105. “A Shade of Kiev.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

108. “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

109. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

112. “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

113. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

115. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

123. “Keeping secrets is the cancer.”

— Bella Forrest

124. “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

125. “I was so focussed on getting back to our apartment that I didn’t think to check if anyone was following us. If.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

127. “There were a few times I wished I’d made more space for people’s feelings throughout this journey.”

— Bella Forrest

128. “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

129. “Of creatures who inhabit the darkness, there are two types. Those who revel in it, and those who fight to escape it.”

— Bella Forrest

130. “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

131. “I’d begrudgingly tried it, when my face didn’t feel so dry.”

— Bella Forrest

132. “Still, I had faith we would figure something out.”

— Bella Forrest

133. “Wherever this place called “The Shade” was, I had no allies. No.”

— Bella Forrest

134. “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

135. “Lies were increasingly common, I had learned, which made the truth worth more.”

— Bella Forrest

136. “I will wait for you, Vivienne. I don’t care how many centuries it takes before you’re ready, but I will wait for you.”

— Bella Forrest

137. “I feared what loving him could mean for me.”

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

139. “It’s what true bravery was, in my opinion. Having not only the self-awareness but the courage to recognize you ought to change, and then preparing to go to war with yourself every day to achieve it.”

— Bella Forrest

140. “They had a story for these ruins, and it was no fairytale. My skin erupted in goosebumps as apprehension welled up inside me. Another story meant more pain, but I owed it to them to witness their history.”

— Bella Forrest

141. “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

142. “Poor Theo. He just wanted to succeed here, but the very system he ascribed to was keeping him from being happy.”

— Bella Forrest

143. “Exactly. This society has no need for an individual who can’t contribute.”

— Bella Forrest

144. “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