The Girl Who Dared to Descend Quotes

“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

“she was my friend. Which in my experience meant the person was even better family than the one you were born with.”
― Bella Forrest, The Girl Who Dared to Descend

“Before the Tower, history was riddled with stories about humanity defying the status quo. Regimes would come and go, nations would be united and then divided, treaties would be brokered and broken… The list went on and on, each generation inventing new ways to seize power, fight power, restructure power. The goal was always the same: change what you didn’t like into something you did. Before the End and the Tower, humanity fought against tyranny, battled their oppressors, and their tales and deeds became noteworthy enough to survive despite the history we lost—kept alive by people who didn’t seem to want to fight anything anymore.”
― Bella Forrest, The Girl Who Dared to Descend

“I am not designed for vengeance, so don’t make me die trying.”
― Bella Forrest, The Girl Who Dared to Descend

“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
― Bella Forrest, The Girl Who Dared to Descend

“A Shade of Kiev”
― Bella Forrest, The Girl Who Dared to Descend

“What sort of fairness could be achieved when the system itself was no longer impartial?”
― Bella Forrest, The Girl Who Dared to Descend

“informed”
― Bella Forrest, The Girl Who Dared to Descend

“delight on his features—and, to my utmost surprise, saw a smidge of envy there as well.”
― Bella Forrest, The Girl Who Dared to Descend