Bella Forrest Quotes

Feels like a sandcastle; temporary and something that the waves of life and time will soon ruin ...

Sometimes, choices you've made in the past limit the choices you have today.

You are who you choose to be. No matter how much light is shed upon you, if you still choose to remain in darkness, that's your doing, not anyone else's.

Wherever this place called "The Shade" was, I had no allies. No

This, Derek, is what you're going to turn into without her in your life. You can only get worse from here. This is why you need her.

What's on your mind, Derek? she whispered.
"You ... " I saw no reason to lie " ... how I can't imagine life without you.

I had only myself to rely on. And that, I thought, was the most frightening aspect of my predicament. After all, how could I rely on someone I couldn't trust?

You're not a pawn, Sofia. You're the queen.

I know you're immortal, Gregor Novak, but know that we all pass away eventually. At least I will pass away with dignity.

Because beautiful things, even when they are temporary, still manage to leave a part of their beauty with you ... even after they're long gone.

When society believes that an eye for an eye is acceptable, eventually everyone will go blind." At

Nothing but brutality will get through to these people. Some evils should not be given a second chance.

Sometimes, that's the way it is with people. You think you can tell what they are based on the patterns that you see, but when you take a look inside, they're nothing like you expect them to be.

Wounded can inflict the most painful wounds without hesitation.

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.

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

It was one of the first times I could remember hearing him laugh.

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.

Disarray as they were pulled to their feet by their escorts. We

But this wasn't a fairytale.
Viggo's and my story was everything but.

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

I'd lost all track of time. It was only now that I was no longer preoccupied holding on to the werewolf's back for dear life that I glanced at my watch. Ten o'clock. "Crap. I need to get home now. It's past nine-thirty.

I love you, Sofia," I whispered. "And I honestly believe that I could never love another woman for the rest of my life. For the first time in the past five hundred years, I am sincerely thankful for my immortality, because without it, I never would've found you.

One small spark was all it took to light up pitch darkness.

famished. "We'll continue practice after lunch," she said, taking my gun from me and resting it on the dead trunk along with the others. "Let's head back. There

After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one's life to the light than to the dark.

We're all broken, Claudia, but none of us are beyond fixing.

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.

Derek's. Lucas'. Ben's. It's beyond me what I must do to make them realize that I'm neither object nor possession. I don't belong to any of them.

Cruelty didn't have a gender qualifier behind it - it was an ever unraveling human condition, cast out by pride, power, and indifference - and

Numbness was what I craved. It was the rope I used to climb out of the black hole I'd otherwise be trapped in. Numbness was my savior, not my fear.

Is there only so much pain a man can stand before he becomes irreparably broken?

I'll always be yours. Always.

What's wrong?" I asked her. She shook her head and smiled amidst the tears. "Nothing. Nothing's wrong. Not as long as you're here.

I'd expected to wake up to a pitch-black night ... Instead I woke up to her.

You're a good liar."
He gritted his teeth and held my gaze, Sometimes that's what's required to do what is right in Patrus.

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Better to remain always self-reliant. Self-reliance means you're in control. Don't ever think you need a man for happiness.

That night, at the lighthouse, everything else faded away and my entire world became Sofia Claremont.

Honesty is an undervalued commodity. Keeping secrets is the cancer that is slowly killing Matrus and Patrus. Given enough time, and lies, both places would fail, and the last vestiges of humanity would disappear from this earth. I don't have time for it. And also, I have found that honesty can inspire people. I won't let my people go into any situation against their will, and I won't lie to spare them uncomfortable truths about what they are getting into. It builds trust, and separates me from Matrus and Patrus. I don't have time to be anything but honest.

The same way you forgave yourself all those other times you made her miserable, Novak. You ask for her forgiveness and when you find that she loves you enough to see past what you've done, that's when you'll be able to forgive yourself.

I don't belong to you, Derek." "Oh?" He challenged me. "I belong with you.

I want to follow my heart. And if the path under my feet doesn't take me in the same direction, I'll cut a new path. I'll shave my obstacles down into stepping stones.

I realized that the whole time I was holding this beautiful stranger in my arms, feeding on her, it felt like I was betraying Sofia.

I can't control the world. I can't make the world a safe place for my children. They may face trouble and they may struggle. They may even encounter darkness and evil. I cannot change that. That is beyond my control. What I can do, however, is show them that where there is darkness, there is light. Where there is evil, there is good.

Yes. Tonight's the night, Sofia. He

Loss is never forgotten. But the weight of it dissipates with time.

If I was to die here, on this beach, I wanted to have them closed anyway. I wanted a blank canvas upon which I could paint my most treasured memories of Caleb.

Claiming that a little piece of green paper is more important than, say, the tree it's made from - even though that tree provides oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Without the trees, we would all die out, but cash is an invention that is less than two thousand years old.

Well, I'm nothing if not strangely beautiful but a little unproductive.

Just because sandcastles are temporary, it never stopped me from making them as beautiful as possible.

Misery, after all, loves company.

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.

I've finished," I said, letting out an exaggerated yawn. "I'm exhausted now. I'm going to have a nap, so please don't let anyone come in my room. I'll probably be sleeping for the next few hours ... " "I'll make sure nobody disturbs you," he said. I returned to my room and placed my Do Not Disturb doorknob sign outside my door just as an extra precaution.

I was a happy child. I felt loved. I never would've imagined that things would turn out the way that they did.

We are all broken, but none of us are beyond fixing.

Let the sandcastle collapse. In its place, I will build a fortress - one that the waves of nature and time could never destroy.

Stupid adventure course. That, and the fact that this really was going to be our last summer as humans. "It's just this once," Ben said quietly. "For two months. They'll never

Catching the glint of malice in her eyes came as a wake-up call. I realized in this moment, she was as crazy as I was.

Speeding toward him, my claws sinking into his chest. Fear sparked in his eyes when he realized that he'd gone too far and that I could break his neck in two with my bare hands. "Broach the subject again, Felix, and I will demonstrate just how weak I am by ripping your heart out with my bare hands. Her name is never to escape your lips again. Do you understand?" He nodded. "Yes. Of course. My apologies." With no