Top 140 Bella Forrest Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Self-reliance means you’re in control.”

— 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. “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

104. “Keeping secrets is the cancer.”

— Bella Forrest

105. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

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

— Bella Forrest

110. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

117. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

120. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

123. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

129. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

135. “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

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

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

— Bella Forrest

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

— Bella Forrest

140. “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

141. “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

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

— Bella Forrest

143. “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

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

— Bella Forrest