01UndatedAlice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"Alice: "I do. Excellent.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
03UndatedThere was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
04UndatedIn a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
05UndatedRepeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
06UndatedIsabella." He pronounced my full name carefully, then playfully ruffled my hair with his free hand. A shock ran through my body at his casual touch. "Bella, I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don't know how it's tortured me." He looked down, ashamed again. "The thought of you, still, white, cold . . . to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you see through my pretenses . . . it would be unendurable." he lifted his glorious, agonized eyes to mine. "You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
07UndatedYou're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you I didn't want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
09UndatedThe irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
10UndatedIt's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
13UndatedStop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves.""No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?""Just shut up.""Can do.""Really? Doesn't seem like it."-Jacob and sethStephenie Meyer / quote ↗
14UndatedJust you wait till I’m a vampire! I’m not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
15UndatedNot many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
16UndatedMy old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I’d brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle’s compassion and Esme’s devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
18UndatedIt takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom is to the heart. As long as the heart keeps beating, poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through it. Eventually the heart stops, and the conversion is finished. But all the time, every minute of it, a victim would be wishing for deathStephenie Meyer / quote ↗
19UndatedI was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
22UndatedMaybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't feel like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
23UndatedThis place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
24UndatedSometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.Stephenie Meyer / quote ↗
