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161 " 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. "
― Bella Forrest , The Gender Secret (The Gender Game, #2)
162 " 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. "
― Bella Forrest , A Blaze of Sun (A Shade of Vampire, #5)
163 " She lit up the darkness surrounding The Shade, and for a kingdom that had no mornings, only eternal night, her light was life. "
― Bella Forrest , A Castle of Sand (A Shade of Vampire, #3)
164 " Promises are no more than well-intentioned lies if you cannot guarantee them, "
― Bella Forrest , Darkworld (Darklight #3)
165 " 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 , The Girl Who Dared to Descend (The Girl Who Dared, #3)
166 " After we’d first slept together, I’d never told anyone, but I’d struggled deep inside. As I’d sketched his image the morning after I lost my virginity to him, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of insecurity and fear. I had just given him all of me in the span of a night. He’d been my first kiss, my first love… my first everything. On the other hand, for him, I was only one among many women who had come before me. Doubts about him losing interest in me and me being unable to equal the more experienced women he’d been with had plagued me. "
167 " he likes me in a slinky bikini, then he can damn well like me in sweats and a t-shirt, looking like death warmed over. "
― Bella Forrest , Harley Merlin and the Stolen Magicals (Harley Merlin, #3)
168 " Until I was ready, until I could let go of my past, we both knew that we could never really be together. "
― Bella Forrest , A Shadow of Light (A Shade of Vampire, #4)
169 " 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 , A Break of Day (A Shade of Vampire, #7)
170 " 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 , Darklight (Darklight #1)
171 " Now I realized just how stupid I had been to even think that I might be able to undo a lifetime of love and attraction in just one conversation. "
― Bella Forrest , An End of Night (A Shade of Vampire, #16)
172 " I couldn’t have given him a love like that, and life is worth nothing if you don’t have true love in it. Fortunately, my angel, you’re my true love—the only one I’ll ever need. Men can suck it, quite frankly. I’m happier without one. "
― Bella Forrest , Harley Merlin and the First Ritual (Harley Merlin, #4)
173 " 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 , Coldbloods (Hotbloods, #2)
174 " 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? "
― Bella Forrest , Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven (Harley Merlin, #1)
175 " At that moment, however, I knew that no other person had ever mattered to me as much as Sofia Claremont. "
― Bella Forrest , A Shade of Blood (A Shade of Vampire, #2)
176 " 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. "
― Bella Forrest , A Gate of Night (A Shade of Vampire, #6)
177 " In that moment, I was suddenly grateful to Violet. Compassion burned in her like a beacon, and I couldn’t help but be attracted to it like a moth to a flame. Since my wife had died, I had cut off almost everyone I had known. It was easier that way— easier not to feel. How misguided I was: The feelings didn’t go away. I had just buried them under a veneer of calm. I had become so distanced from humanity, so apart from it, that I had forgotten that life was precious. "
178 " He never caved in, always searching for the solution, rather than allowing himself to be consumed by the problem. "
― Bella Forrest , Harley Merlin and the Mystery Twins (Harley Merlin, #2)
179 " I’m still going to make you stop if you push yourself too hard, "
― Bella Forrest , The Gender Fall (The Gender Game, #5)
180 " I’d expected to wake up to a pitch-black night… Instead I woke up to her. "
― Bella Forrest , A Shade of Vampire (A Shade of Vampire, #1)