1. Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble,
even. That ought to count for something. (Bella)
3. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable
to grieve when it comes to an end. (Bella)
4. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the
world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain. (Bella)
5. So did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that. (Mike)
6. Forks was literally my personal hell on earth. (Bella)
7. Once people start throwing wet stuff I go inside. (Bella)
8. Edward Cullen is staring at you. (Jessica)
9. He unleashed the full, devastating power of his eyes on me, as if trying to communicate
something crucial. (Bella)
10. I wasn't interesting. And he was. Interesting'and brilliant'and mysterious'and
perfect'and beautiful'and possibly able to lift full-sized vans with one hand. (Bella)
11. Bella it's not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant. (Edward)
12. I thought you were suppose to be pretending I don't exist, not irritating me to death. (Bella)
13. Stupid, shiny volvo owner. (Bella)
14. It was hard to believe that someone so beautiful could be real. I was afraid that he might disappear in a sudden puff of smoke, and I would wake up. (Bella)
15. I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly. (Edward)
16. I had been vacillating during the last month between Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker. There was no way I was going to own up to that. (Bella)
17. What if I'm not a superhero? What if I'm the bad guy? (Edward)
18. So you faint at the sight of blood? (Edward)
19. You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods. (Edward)
20. Honestly-I've seen corpses with better color. I was concerned that I might have to avenge your murder. (Edward)
21. Go sit down and look pale. (Edward)
22. His voice was like melting honey. I could imagine how much more overwhelming his eyes would be. (Bella)
23. Can you walk, or do you want me to carry you again? (Edward)
24. Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So'try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right? (Edward)
25. I don't think a tank could take out that old monster. (Jacob)
26. I tried to make my smile alluring, wondering if i was laying it on too thick. He smiled back, though, looking allured. (Bella)
27. There's always a risk for humans to be around the cold ones, even if they're civilized like this clan was. You never know when they might get too hungry to resist. (Jacob)
28. Do you think if I ran him over with my truck he would stop feeling guilty about the accident? (Bella)
29. Stupid, unreliable vampire. (Bella)
30. I realized then that I wasn't being followed. I was being herded. (Bella)
31. Do I dazzle you? (Edward)
32. He stared into my eyes, and I saw how light his eyes were, lighter than I'd ever seen them, golden butterscotch. (Bella)
33. You're always crabbier when your eyes are black-I expect it then. (Bella)
34. Only you could get in trouble in a town this small. You would have devastated their crime rate statistics for a decade, you know. (Edward)
35. You're a magnet for accidents-that's not a broad enough classification. You are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius, it will invariably find you. (Edward)
36. I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it's much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that's probably just because it's you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes. (Edward)
37. Your number was up the first time I met you. (Edward)
38. I hear voices in my mind and you're worried you're the freak. (Edward)
39. And you accuse me of dazzling people-poor Jacob Black. (Edward)
40. And how long have you been seventeen. (Bella)
41. I can't be sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. (Edward)
42. About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him ' and I didn't know how potent that part might be ' that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. (Bella)
43. Hadn't you noticed? I'm breaking all the rules now. (Edward)
44. We all like to drive fast. (Edward)
45. But outside the door to our Spanish class, leaning against the wall-looking more like a Greek god than anyone had a right to-Edward was waiting for me. (Bella)
46. I'm absolutely ordinary-well, except for bad things like all the near-death experiences and being so clumsy that I'm almost disabled. (Bella)
47. Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over. (Edward)
48. His skin was icy as ever, but the trail his fingers left on my skin was alarmingly warm-like I'd been burned, but didn't feel the pain of it yet. (Bella)
49. He looks at you like'like you're something to eat. (Mike)
50. When we hunt, we give ourselves over to our senses'govern less with our minds. Especially our sense of smell. If you were anywhere near me when I lost control that way' (Edward)
51. It's twilight. It's the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way'the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think? (Edward)
52. He grinned his crooked smile at me, stopping my breath and my heart. I couldn't imagine how an angel could be any more glorius. There was nothing about him that could be improved upon. (Bella)
53. If I'm going to be alone with you tommorrow, I'm going to take whatever precautions I can. (Edward)
54. He knows I've been meaning to do the laundry. Maybe he'll think I fell in the washer. (Bella)
55. I realized slowly that his words should frighten me. I waited for that fear to come, but all I could seem to feel was an ache for his pain. (Bella)
56. I promise to try to be safe. I'll do the laundry tonight-that ought to be fraught with peril. (Bella)
57. This truck is old enough to be your car's grandfather-have some respect. (Bella)
58. Are you so depressed by Forks that it's made you suicidal. (Edward)
59. So you're worried about the trouble it might cause me-if you con't come home? (Edward)
60. Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him all afternoon. (Bella)
His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. (Bella)
61. Would you understand what I meant if I said I was only human? (Edward)
63. I'm the worlds best predator, aren't I? Everything about me invites you in-my voice, my face, even my smell. As if i need any of that! (Edward)
64. I sat without moving, more frightened of him than I had ever been. I'd never seen him so completely freed of that carefully cultivated f facade. He'd never been less human' or more beautiful. (Bella)
65. That is something to be afraid of, indeed. Wanting to be with me. That's really not in you're best interest. (Edward)
66. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should. (Edward)
67. So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin? (Bella)
68. Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin. (Edward)
69. To me, it was like you were some kind of demon, summoned straight from my own personal hell to ruin me. (Edward)
70. I so very nearly took you then. There was only one other frail human there ' so easily dealt with. (Edward)
71. Who were you, an insignificant little girl, to chase me from the place I wanted to be? (Edward)
72. Common sense told me I should be terrified. Instead, I was relieved to finally understand. And I was filled with compassion for his suffering, even now, as he confessed his craving to take my life. (Bella)
73. You already know how I feel, of course. I'm here' which, roughly translated, means I would rather die than stay away from you. (Bella)
74. And so the lion fell in love with the lamb'What a stupid lamb. What a sick, masochistic lion. (Edward, Bella, Edward)
75. It was just how close you were. Most humans instinctively shy away from us, are repelled by our alienness' I wasn't expecting you to come so close. And the smell of your throat. (Edward)
76. I knew at any moment it could be too much, and my life could end ' so quickly that I might not even notice. And I couldn't make myself be afraid. I couldn't think of anything, except that he was touching me. (Bella)
77. No one could be still like Edward. He closed his eyes and became as immobile as stone, a carving under my hand. (Bella)
78. If I'd ever feared death before in his presence, it was nothing compared to how I felt now. (Bella)
79. Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise? (Edward)
80. Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk. (Edward)
81. You're intoxicated by my very presence. (Edward)
82. Take it easy ' my truck is a senior citizen. (Bella)
83. Do you think I could walk down the street in the sunlight without causing traffic accidents? (Edward)
84. I couldn't picture it, this godlike creature sitting in my father's shabby kitchen chair. (Bella)
85. Can I have a minute to be human? (Bella)
86. Bring on the shackles ' I'm your prisoner. (Edward)
87. For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours' all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet. (Edward)
88. Just because I'm resisting the wine doesn't mean I can't appreciate the bouquet. (Edward)
89. Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell. (Bella)
90. Let me get this straight ' I'm the baby seal, right? (Bella)
91. Are you sure you won't vanish in the morning? You are mythical, after all. (Bella)
92. You don't realize how incredibly breakable you are. I can never, never afford to lose any kind of control when I'm with you. (Edward)
93. I may not be a human, but I am a man. (Edward)
94. He laughed, and then began to hum that same, unfamiliar lullaby; the voice of an archangel, soft in my ear. (Bella)
95. Your hair looks like a haystack' but I like it. (Edward)
96. Well, it's no irritable grizzly' (Bella)
97. I doubted there were any etiquette books detailing how to dress when your vampire sweetheart takes you home to meet his vampire family. (Bella)
98. You are utterly indecent ' no one should look so tempting, it's not fair. (Edward)
99. Shall I explain how you are tempting me? (Edward)
100. What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me! (Edward)
101. I think I forgot to breathe. (Bella)
102. And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct? (Edward)
103. Actually, Esme wouldn't care if you had a third eye and webbed feet. (Edward)
104. Finally, a rational response! I was beginning to think you had no sense of self-preservation at all. (Edward)
105. No coffins, no piled skulls in the corners; I don't even think we have cobwebs' what a disappointment this must be for you. (Edward)
106. I know that at some point, something I tell you or something you see is going to be too much. And then you'll run away from me, screaming as you go. I won't stop you. I want this to happen, because I want you to be safe. And yet, I want to be with you. The two desires are impossible to reconcile' (Edward)
107. You're still waiting for the running and the screaming, aren't you? (Bella)
108. I hate to burst your bubble, but you're really not as scary as you think you are. I don't find you scary at all, actually. (Bella)
109. Vampires like baseball? (Bella)
110. I could walk home faster than this truck moves. (Edward)
111. You smell so good in the rain. (Edward)
112. Bella, you don't really think I would hit a tree, do you? (Edward)
113. Damn it, Bella! You'll be the death of me, I swear you will. (Edward)
114. I love you. It's a poor excuse for what I'm doing, but it's still true. (Edward)
115. You don't mind, then? That I'm' all wrong for him? (Bella)
116. You brought a snack? (James)
117. I saw his mind. Tracking is his passion, his obsession ' and he wants her, Alice ' her, specifically. He begins the hunt tonight (Edward)
118. If you let anything happen to yourself' anything at all ' I'm holding you personally responsible. Do you understand that? (Edward)
119. I love you. I will always love you, no matter what happens now. (Bella)
120. I can't do this anymore! I can't put down any more roots here! I don't want to end up trapped in this stupid, boring town like Mom! I'm not going to make the same dumb mistake she did. I hate it ' I can't stay here another minute! (Bella)
121. But it won't be all right when I'm not with you. (Bella)
122. If you didn't smell so appallingly luscious, he might not have bothered. (Edward)
123. You wouldn't believe how euphoric he is now. It's his favorite game, and we've just made it his most exciting game ever. (Edward)
124. Bella, don't you dare waste time worrying about me. Your only concern is keeping yourself safe and ' please, please ' trying not to be reckless. (Edward)
125. What is she to me? Except a menace ' a danger you've chosen to inflict on all of us. (Rosalie)
126. I can feel what you're feeling now ' and you are worth it. (Jasper)
127. You are under too much strain as it is; don't add to it with wholly unnecessary worries. Listen to me! Our family is strong. Our only fear is losing you. (Jasper)
128. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you? (Alice)
129. And then, like a carnivorous flower, we are physically attractive to our prey. (Alice)
130. It's like you've taken half my self away with you. (Edward)
131. Immortality must grant endless patience. (Bella)
132. Before noon, please, Bella. I haven't got all day. (James)
133. I folded the letter carefully, and sealed it in the envelope. Eventually he would find it. I only hoped he would understand, and listen to me just this once. And then I carefully sealed away my heart. (Bella)
134. The minutes passed and Edward's arrival grew closer. It was amazing how every cell in my body seemed to know he was coming, to long for his coming. (Bella)
135. Terror seized me so strongly that I was literally trapped by it. I couldn't make my feet move forward. (Bella)
136. I suppose you're going to tell me that your boyfriend will avenge you? (James)
137. It was all for him, of course. You're simply a human, who unfortunately was in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and indisputably running with the wrong crowd, I might add. (James)
138. I thought this room would be visually dramatic for my little film. That's why I picked this place to meet you. It's perfect, isn't it? (James)
139. I heard, as if from underwater, the final growl of the hunter. I could see, through the long tunnels my eyes had become, his dark shape coming toward me. With my last effort, my hand instinctively raised to protect my face. My eyes closed, and I drifted. (Bella)
140. This couldn't be heaven, could it? There was too much pain for that. (Bella)
141. Stay, Edward, stay with me'(Bella)
142. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief. (Bella)
143. You can sleep, sweetheart, I'll carry you. (Edward))
144. Death shouldn't be this uncomfortable. (Bella)
145. You fell down two flights of stairs and through a window. You have to admit, it could happen. (Edward)
146. They gave you a few transfusions. I didn't like it ' it made you smell all wrong for a while. (Edward)
147. Don't I taste as good as I smell? (Bella)
148. Oh, a sadistic vampire, intent on torturing her to death, sure, no problem, she runs off to meet him. An IV, on the other hand' (Edward)
149. Alice had a little bit too much fun fabricating evidence. (Edward)
150. I was not finished kissing you. Don't make me come over there. (Bella)
151. Don't forget to breathe. (Bella)
152. I think that boy is in love with you. (Renee)
154. He didn't say anything; he watched my face warily as the pain that had nothing to do with broken bones, pain that was infinitely worse, threatened to crush me. (Bella)
155. Now relax before I call the nurse back to sedate you. (Edward)
156. If it weren't for you, I would be rotting away in the Forks cemetery. (Bella)
157. I don't seem to be strong enough to stay away from you, so I suppose that you'll get your way' whether it kills you or not. (Edward)
158. Why didn't you just let the venom spread? By now I would be just like you. (Bella)
159. I can't always be Lois Lane. I want to be Superman, too. (Bella)
160. You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt me to lose. (Bella)
161. It's possible to take bravery to the point where it becomes insanity. (Edward)
162. If you're waiting for me to be on my deathbed, I've got news for you! I was just there! (Bella)
163. I may not die now' but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old. (Bella)
164. I'm hardly a lottery prize. (Edward)
165. Bella, we're not having this discussion anymore. I refuse to damn you to an eternity of night and that's the end of it. (Edward)
166. You'll never catch me betting against Alice. (Bella)
167. I'm not afraid of the needles. I'm afraid to close my eyes. (Bella)
168. You're talking about forever, you know. (Bella)
169. That's the beautiful thing about being human. Things change. (Edward)
170. I'm betting on Alice. (Bella)
171. I'm not coming over anymore if Alice is going to treat me like Guinea Pig Barbie when I do. (Bella)
172. His eyes were melting all my fury. It was impossible to fight with him when he cheated like that. (Bella)
173. Emmett enjoyed having me around ' he thought my bizarre human reactions were hilarious' or maybe it was just the fact that I fell down a lot that he found so funny. (Bella)
174. At school, where Charlie couldn't interfere, Edward and I were inseparable ' except for those rare sunny days. (Bella)
175. When someone wants to kill you, you're brave as a lion ' and then when someone mentions dancing' (Edward)
176. Bella, I won't let anything hurt you ' not even yourself. I won't let go of you once, I promise. (Edward)
177. This looks like a horror movie waiting to happen. (Bella)
178. Do you want me to bolt the doors so you can massacre the unsuspecting townsfolk? (Bella)
179. Oh, I'm with the vampires, of course. (Bella)
180. Can you believe my dad paid me twenty bucks to come to your prom? (Jacob)
181. He said to tell you, no, to warn you, that ' and this is his plural, not mine, 'We'll be watching.' (Jacob)
182. So, should I tell him you said to butt the hell out? (Jacob)
183. He called you pretty. That's practically an insult, the way you look right now. You're much more than beautiful. (Edward)
184. Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. (Edward)
185. So ready for this to be the end, for this to be the twilight of your life, though your life has barely started. You're ready to give up everything. (Edward)
186. It's not the end, it's the beginning. (Bella)
187. I'm not worth it. (Edward)
188. Do you remember when you told me that I didn't see myself very clearly? You obviously have the same blindness. (Bella)
189. Is that what you dream about? Being a monster? (Edward)
190. Mostly I dream about being with you forever. (Bella)
191. I will stay with you ' isn't that enough? (Edward)
192. I love you more than everything else in the world combined. Isn't that enough? (Bella)193. Yes, it is enough. Enough for forever. (Edward)
New Moon Quotes
1. My own life meant little to me today. (Bella)
2. I didn't have to look to know who it was; this was a voice I would know anywhere'know, and respond to, whether I was awake or asleep' or even dead, I'd bet. The voice I'd walk through fire for'or, less dramatically, slosh every day through the cold and endless rain for. Edward. (Bella)
3. Well, Gran, you might have noticed that my boyfriend glitters. It's just something he does in the sun. Don't worry about it' (Bella)
4. Edward stood beside me, casting no reflection, excruciatingly lovely and forever seventeen. (Bella)
5. I couldn't feel anything but despair until I pulled into the familiar parking lot behind Forks High School and spotted Edward leaning motionlessly against his polished silver Volvo, like a marble tribute to some forgotten pagan god of beauty. (Bella)
6. You're only a senior once. Might as well document the experience. (Alice)
7. How many times have you been a senior? (Bella)
8. So, as discussed, I am not allowed to wish you a happy birthday, is that correct? (Edward)
9. Attention is never a good thing, as any other accident-prone klutz would agree. No one wants a spotlight when they're likely to fall on their face. (Bella)
10. College was Plan B. I was still hoping for Plan A, but Edward was just so stubborn about leaving me human' (Bella)
11. Money meant next to nothing to Edward or the rest of the Cullens. It was just something that accumulated when you had unlimited time on your hands and a sister who had an uncanny ability to predict trends in the stock market. (Bella)
12. You want a nice stereo? Drive your own car. (Bella)
13. Edward had drawn many careful lines for our physical relationship, with the intent being to keep me alive. Though I respected the need for maintaining a safe distance between my skin and his razor-sharp, venom-coated teeth, I tended to forget about trivial things like that when he was kissing me. (Bella)
14. Do you think I'll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me? (Bella)
15. You know, I've never had much patience with Romeo. (Edward)
16. Anyway, you don't irritate the Volturi. Not unless you want to die'or whatever it is we do. (Edward)
17. No matter what might ever happen to me, you are not allowed to hurt yourself! (Bella)
18. I'll never put you in danger again, so it's a moot point. (Edward)
19. Put me in danger! I thought we'd established that all the bad luck is my fault? (Bella)
20. What if something did happen to you? Would you want me to go off myself? (Bella)
21. If I develop this film, will you show up in the picture? (Bella)
22. Sorry about this, Bella. We couldn't rein Alice in. (Carlisle)
23. I have to step out for a second. Don't do anything funny while I'm gone. (Emmett)
24. Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm ' into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. (Bella)
25. Edward stood over me, still protective, still not breathing. (Bella)
26. Well, that's everyone. I can clear a room, at least. (Bella)
27. I couldn't imagine anyone, deity included, who wouldn't be impressed by Carlisle. Besides, the only kind of heaven I could appreciate would have to include Edward. (Bella)
28. I look at my' son. His strength, his goodness, the brightness that shines out of him'and it only fuels that hope, that faith, more than ever. How could there not be more for one such as Edward? (Carlisle)
29. If you believed as he did. Could you take away his soul? (Carlisle)
30. If he'd asked me whether I would risk my soul for Edward, the reply would be obvious. But would I risk Edward's soul? I pursed my lips unhappily. That wasn't a fair exchange. (Bella)
31. Tonight is exactly the kind of thing that he fears the most. You being put in danger, because of what we are. (Carlisle)
32. Carlisle sews faster than any other doctor I've had. (Bella)
33. Charlie was never surprised to see me bandaged. (Bella)
34. Bella, you gave yourself a paper cut ' that hardly deserves the death penalty. (Edward)
35. Don't try to take any of this on yourself, Bella. It will only make me more disgusted with myself. (Edward)
36. I'd rather die than be with anyone but you. (Bella)
37. You can't have it both ways'either you want people to ignore your birthday or you don't. One or the other. (Edward)
38. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, and then he disappeared into the darkness. (Bella)
39. You're greedy tonight. (Edward)
40. You're overestimating my self-control. (Edward)
41. Which is tempting you more, my blood or my body? (Bella)
42. The guilt made my head bow and my shoulders slump. I'd run them out of their home, just like Rosalie and Emmett. I was a plague. (Bella)
43. Surely Edward could wait a year. What was a year to an immortal? It didn't even seem like that much to me. (Bella)
44. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for normal human behavior today. (Bella)
45. Edward looked just as beautiful as he did in real life, staring at me out of the picture with the warm eyes I'd missed for the past few days. It was almost uncanny that anyone could look so' so' beyond description. No thousand words could equal this picture. (Bella)
46. The contrast between the two of us was painful. He looked like a god. I looked very average, even for a human, almost shamefully plain. (Bella)
47. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, but it was wrong. It didn't reach his eyes. (Bella)
48. I don't care! You can have my soul. I don't want it without you'it's yours already! (Bella)
49. You' don't' want me? (Bella)
50. Of course, I'll always love you' in a way. But what happened the other night made me realize that it's time for a change. Because I'm' tired of pretending to be something I'm not, Bella. I am not human. (Edward)
51. You're not good for me, Bella. (Edward)
52. I promise that this will be the last time you'll see me. I won't come back. I won't put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed. (Edward)
53. Don't worry. You're human'your memory is no more than a sieve. Time heals all wounds for your kind. (Edward)
54. Well, I won't forget. But my kind' we're very easily distracted. (Edward)
55. With shaky legs, ignoring the fact that my action was useless, I followed him into the forest. The evidence of his path had disappeared instantly. There were no footprints, the leaves were still again, but I walked forward without thinking. I could not do anything else. I had to keep moving. If I stopped looking for him, it was over. Love, life, meaning' over. (Bella)
56. No, I don't think she's hurt. She just keeps saying 'He's gone.' (Sam)
57. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface. (Bella)
58. I didn't know much about psychoanalysis, but I was pretty sure that it didn't work unless the subject was relatively honest. Sure, I could tell the truth'if I wanted to spend the rest of my life in a padded cell. (Bella)
59. I don't think I can live through seeing you try harder. I've never seen anyone trying so hard. It hurts to watch. (Charlie)
60. The scene kept cutting between the horrified face of the heroine, and the dead, emotionless face of her pursuer, back and forth as it closed the distance. And I realized which one resembled me the most. (Bella)
61. I sat down on the bench outside the theater door and tried very hard not to think of the irony. But it was ironic, all things considered, that, in the end, I would wind up as a zombie. I hadn't seen that one coming. (Bella)
62. It was depressing to realize that I wasn't the heroine anymore, that my story was over. (Bella)
63. It was inevitable that I would have nightmares, but they wouldn't be about zombies. (Bella)
64. Are you crazy? Are you suicidal? (Jessica)
65. Option one: I was crazy. That was the layman's term for people who heard voices in their heads. Possible. (Bella)
66. What were you thinking? You don't know them'they could have been psychopaths! (Jessica)
67. Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk. (Bella)
68. As if he'd never existed? That was insanity. It was a promise that he could never keep, a promise that was broken as soon as he'd made it. (Bella)
69. Reckless in Forks'now there was a hopeless proposition. (Bella)
70. To be reckless in Forks would take a lot of creativity'maybe more than I had. But I wished I could find some way' I might feel better if I weren't holding fast, all alone, to a broken pact. (Bella)
71. Who would want to ride a motorcycle here? It would be like taking a sixty-mile-per-hour bath. (Bella)
72. I wanted to be stupid and reckless, and I wanted to break promises. Why stop at one? (Bella)
73. I liked my truck very much, but Jacob seemed to consider the speed restrictions a shortcoming. (Bella)
74. You grew again! (Bella)
75. Wait a sec'are you legal yet? (Bella)
76. Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. (Bella)
66. Many of the words they used were unfamiliar to me, and I figured I'd have to have a Y chromosome to really understand the excitement. (Bella)
78. I was enjoying myself'how strange. (Bella)
79. I'm bankrolling this party. You just have to supply the labor and expertise. (Bella)
80. So where to, Mr. Goodwrench? (Bella)
81. It's not my fault you're a freak. (Bella)
82. By the time we got back to La Push, I was twenty-three and he was thirty'he was definitely weighting skills in his favor. (Bella)
83. I was beginning to get annoyed with myself. I might as well have been packed in Styrofoam peanuts through the last semester. (Bella)
84. Had all the people she was habitually nasty to caught her behind the gym and scalped her? (Bella)
85. Oh, joy. Bella's back. (Lauren)
86. I wasn't sure what the hell I was doing here. Was I trying to push myself back into the zombie stupor? Had I turned masochistic'developed a taste for torture? (Bella)
87. I guess I am taking advantage of your very underpriced mechanical skills. But as long as you let me come over, I'll be here. (Bella)
88. Here's to responsibility. Twice a week. (Jacob)
89. They're just cliff diving, Bella. Recreation. La Push doesn't have a mall, you know. (Jacob)
90. Sometimes you're a little strange, Bella. Do you know that? (Jacob)
91. I swear, they're like hall monitors gone bad. (Jacob)
92. I threw my arms around him instinctively, wrapping them around his waist and pressing my face against his chest. He was so big, I felt like I was a child hugging a grown-up. (Bella)
93. This didn't feel anything like the last time someone had embraced me this way. This was friendship. And Jacob was very warm. (Bella)
94. If this is how you're going to react, I'll freak out more often. (Jacob)
95. It's hard to believe I'm two years older than you. You make me feel like a dwarf. (Bella)
96. Let's not start with the albino cracks. (Bella)
97. That doesn't sound right. Aren't both brakes kind of important? (Bella)
98. This had to be it, the recipe for a hallucination'adrenaline plus clanger plus stupidity. Something close to that, anyway. (Bella)
99. Why are you apologizing for bleeding? (Jacob)
100. I'm an easy bleeder. It's not nearly as dire as it looks. (Bella)
101. Racing down the road like that had been amazing. The feel of the wind in my face, the speed and the freedom' it reminded me of a past life, flying through the thick forest without a road, piggyback while he ran'I stopped thinking right there, letting the memory break off in the sudden agony. (Bella)
102. Charlie seemed to buy my story about falling in Jacob's garage. After all, it wasn't like I hadn't been able to land myself in the ER before with no more help than my own feet. (Bella)
103. As always, Jacob was game for anything I wanted. No matter how strange it was. (Bella)
104. Bears don't want to eat people. We don't taste that good. Of course, you might be an exception. I bet you'd taste good. (Jacob)
105. I was like a lost moon'my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation'that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity. (Bella)
106. So are you going to be my Valentine? Since you didn't get me a fifty-cent box of candy, it's the least you can do. (Jacob)
107. I'm in the mood for action. Bring on the blood and guts! (Bella)
108. I'm giving up'I can't top this one. So you win. You're oldest. (Bella)
109. I told him you were planning to corrupt my youthful innocence. (Jacob)
110. How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much? (Bella)
111. What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit. (Jacob)
112. As long as you like me the best. And you think I'm good-looking'sort of. I'm prepared to be annoyingly persistent. (Jacob)
113. The pin's out of the grenade for me, now, eh? (Jacob)
114. Do you honestly expect me to remember where all my scars come from? (Bella)
I15. I waited for the memory to hit'to open the gaping hole. But, as it so often did, Jacob's presence kept me whole. (Bella)
116. He deserved better than that'better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order. (Bella)
117. How much I wished that Jacob Black had been born my brother, my flesh-and -blood brother, so that I would have some legitimate claim on him that still left me free of any blame now. (Bella)
118. I'd give Billy a week, I decided, before I got pushy. A week was generous. (Bella)
119. I wasn't really listening to his warnings; I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear. (Bella)
120. It was ridiculous that I should be so elated because a vampire knew my name. (Bella)
121. I'm surprised they left you behind. Weren't you sort of a pet of theirs? (Laurent)
122. Was I nor in the worst danger imaginable? The motorcycle was safe as kittens next to this. (Bella)
123. I was beginning to babble. I had to work to shut myself up. (Bella)
124. I'm quite thirsty, and you do smell' simply mouthwatering. (Laurent)
125. His name burst through all the walls I'd built to contain it. Edward, Edward, Edward. I was going to die. It shouldn't matter if I thought of him now. Edward, I love you. (Bella)
126. Granted, the wolf was monstrous in size, but it was just an animal. What reason would a vampire have for fearing an animal? (Bella)
127. I guessed that, between the two choices before me, being eaten by wolves was almost certainly the worse option. (Bella)
128. At least I'd come here alone, to this fairytale meadow filled with dark monsters. At least Jacob wasn't going to die, too. At least I wouldn't have his death on my hands. (Bella)
129. What was with the Quileute boys? Were they feeding them experimental growth hormones? (Bella)
130. Jacob didn't want to be a part of this' cult. I don't understand what could change him. I don't want to be next. (Quil)
131. There was a darkness in Jacob now. Like my sun had imploded. (Bella)
132. More than anything, I wanted to be fierce and deadly, someone no one would dare mess with. Someone who would scare Sam Uley silly. I wanted to be a vampire. (Bella)
133. If you want to blame someone, why don't you point your finger at those filthy, reeking bloodsuckers that you love so much? (Jacob)
134. I'm not good enough to be your friend anymore, or anything else. I'm not what I was before. I'm not good. (Jacob)
135. I'd thought Jake had been healing the hole in me'or at least plugging it up, keeping it from hurting me so much. I'd been wrong. He'd just been carving out his own hole, so that I was now riddled through like Swiss cheese. I wondered why I didn't crumble into pieces. (Bella)
136. Sam Uley says Jacob can't be my friend anymore. (Bella)
137. When did you ever promise to kill yourself falling out of Charlie's tree? (Bella)
138. A wide grin spread slowly across Jacob's face; he seemed extremely pleased with himself. It wasn't the grin that I knew and loved'it was a new grin, one that was a bitter mockery of his old sincerity, on the new face that belonged to Sam. (Bella)
139. For me, this was all essentially voluntary. I protected the Cullens' secret out of love; unrequited, but true. For Jacob, it didn't seem to be that way. (Bella)
140. I won't lose you, Bella. Not for this. (Jacob)
141. What kind of a place was this? Could a world really exist where ancient legends went wandering around the borders of tiny, insignificant towns, facing down mythical monsters? Did this mean every impossible fairy tale was grounded somewhere in absolute truth? Was there anything sane or normal at all, or was everything just magic and ghost stories? (Bella)
142. Wasn't one myth enough for anyone, enough for a lifetime? (Bella)
143. Jacob, the only human I'd ever been able to relate to'And he wasn't even human. I fought the urge to scream again.What did this say about me? (Bella)
144. There was no cult. There had never been a cult, never been a gang. No, it was much worse than that. It was a pack. A pack of five mind-blowingly gigantic, multihued werewolves that had stalked right past me in Edward's meadow' (Bella)
145. You aren't turning into a tree-hugger on me, are you? (Charlie)
146. Jacob was my best friend, but was he a monster, too? A real one? A bad one? Should I warn him, if he and his friends were' were murderers? If they were out slaughtering innocent hikers in cold blood? If they were truly creatures from a horror movie in every sense, would it be wrong to protect them? (Bella)
147. It was bad enough that my best friend was a werewolf. Did he have to be a monster, too? (Bella)
148. Could you' well, try to not be a' werewolf? (Bella)
149. Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella. I guess I'm just not as great as a bloodsucker, am I? (Jacob)
150. You really, honestly don't mind that I morph into a giant dog? (Jacob)
151. Bella, honey, we only protect people from one thing'our one enemy. It's the reason we exist'because they do. (Jacob)
152. Vampires don't count as people. (Jacob)
153. I'm nothing but a human, after all. Nothing special. (Bella)
154. It was just luck that she hadn't found me yet'just luck and five teenage werewolves. (Bella)
155. I'm sort of used to weird by this point, you know. (Bella)
156. When I' changed, it was the most' horrible, the most terrifying thing I've ever been through'worse than anything I could have imagined. (Jacob)
157. Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? (Jacob)
158. I'm sure the leech-lover is just dying to help us out! (Paul)
159. Well, the wolf's out of the bag now. (Embry)
160. I bet she's tougher than that. She runs with vampires. (Embry)
161. Like you saw just now, hanging out around werewolves has its risks. (Embry)
162. So, you're the vampire girl. (Emily)
163. Bella is not bait. (Jacob)
164. Hunting vampires is fun. It's the best part of this whole mess. (Jacob)
165. When I dreamed, I stood in the forest again, but I didn't wander. I was holding Emily's scarred hand as we faced into the shadows and waited anxiously for our werewolves to come home. (Bella)
166. Last spring break, I'd been hunted by a vampire, too. I hoped this wasn't some kind of tradition forming. (Bella)
167. Who wants to be a nightmare, a monster? (Jacob)
168. We're a pretty messed-up pair, aren't we? Neither one of us can hold our shape together right. (Jacob)
169. Jake could say what he wanted about us being a messed-up pair'I was the one who was truly messed up. I made the werewolf seem downright normal. (Bella)
170. Look, do you mind saving the stupid stuff for when I'm around? I won't be able to concentrate if I think you're jumping off cliffs behind my back. (Jacob)
171. I can't go back. Treaty or no treaty, that's my enemy in there. (Jacob)
172. Bye, Bella. I really hope you don't die. (Jacob)
173. I'd forgotten how hard she was; it was like running headlong into a wall of cement. (Bella)
174. He was a fool to think you could survive alone. I've never seen anyone so prone to life-threatening idiocy. (Alice)
175. Your best friend is a werewolf? (Bella)
176. Edward was right'you're a magnet for danger. Weren't you supposed to be staying out of trouble? (Alice)
177. Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find. (Alice)
178. What did you think you were going to find? I mean, besides me dead? Did you expect to find me skipping around and whistling show tunes? You know me better than that. (Bella)
179. It was night of the living dead around here. I still hear her screaming in her sleep' (Charlie)
180. Well, run along now. Go tell Sam that the scary monsters aren't coming to get you.
(Bella)
181. Yeah, I'll always be your friend. No matter what you love. (Jacob)
182. Why does everyone keep doing that to me? I don't smell! (Bella)
183. Sam would be mad if I broke the treaty, and you probably wouldn't like it too much if I killed your friend. (Jacob)
184. It was easier when we were both human, wasn't it? (Jacob)
185. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn't break any spells? (Bella)
186. We may already be too late. I saw him going to the Volturi' and asking to die. (Alice)
187. If he gives into his more theatrical tendencies' we might have time. (Alice)
188. There's a very good chance that they will eliminate us all'though in your case it won't be punishment so much as dinnertime. (Alice)
189. The sense of deja vu was nearly stifling by this point. At least, unlike the last time'when I'd run away from Forks to escape thirsty vampires rather than to find them'I wouldn't have to say goodbye to Charlie in person. (Bella)
190. You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires. (Alice)
191. You know what. If we're too late for Edward, I'm going to do my damnedest to get you back to Charlie, and I don't want any trouble from you. Do you understand that? (Alice)
192. You are so bizarre, even for a human. (Alice)
193. The image of Edward in the meadow'glowing, shimmering like his skin was made of a million diamond facets'was burned into my memory. No human who saw that would ever forget. (Bella)
194. How strongly are you opposed to grand theft auto? (Alice)
195. Sheesh, Alice. Could you pick a more conspicuous car to steal? (Bella)
196. Try not to trip. We don't have time for a concussion today. (Alice)
197. I wasn't going to make it. I was stupid and slow and human, and we were all going to die because of it. (Bella)
198. You smell just exactly the same as always. So maybe this is hell. I don't care. I'll take it. (Edward)
199. In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days. (Alice)
200. I love a happy ending. They are so rare. (Aro)
201. If I hadn't smelled her through your memories, I wouldn't have
believed the call of anyone's blood could be so strong. I've never felt
anything like it myself. Most of us would trade much for such a gift,
and yet you' (Aro)
202. I haven't seen a prospective talent so promising since we found Jane and Alec. Can you imagine the possibilities when she is one of us? (Aro)
203. If she betrays our secrets, are you prepared to destroy her? I think not. (Caius)
204. Was it really such a loathsome idea? Would he rather die than change me? I felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach. (Bella)
205. I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her. (Alice)
206. They have a name for someone who smells the way Bella does to me. They call her my singer'because her blood sings for me. (Edward)
207. It was heaven'right smack in the middle of hell. (Bella)
208. You will never put me through that again. (Esme)
209. I'm so very sorry, Bella. I feel wretched about every part of this, and so grateful that you were brave enough to go save my brother after what I did. Please say you'll forgive me. (Rosalie)
210. It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant. (Bella)
211. I'm dead, right? I did drown. Crap, crap, crap! This is gonna kill Charlie. (Bella)
212. If I was in hell, you wouldn't be with me. (Bella)
213. You should probably know that I'm breaking the rules right now. Well, not technically, since he said I was never to walk through his door again, and I came in the window' But, still, the intent was clear. (Edward)
214. The odds are always stacked against us. Mistake after mistake. I'll never criticize Romeo again. (Edward)
215. I thought I'd explained it clearly before. Bella, I can't live in a world where you don't exist. (Edward)
216. After all the thousand times I've told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me? (Edward)
217. I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn't want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept'as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you! (Edward)
218. His mouth was on mine then, and I couldn't fight him. Not because he was so many thousand times stronger than me, but because my will crumbled into dust the second our lips met. (Bella)
219. Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars'points of light and reason' And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything. (Edward)
220. My heart hasn't beat in almost ninety years, but this was different. It was like my heart was gone'like I was hollow. Like I'd left everything that was inside me here with you. (Edward)
221. My problems are a lot worse that a handful of adolescent wolves getting themselves into trouble. (Bella)
222. I cannot be without you, but I will not destroy your soul. (Edward)
223. You will always be the most beautiful thing in my world. Of course' If you outgrew me'if you wanted something more'I would understand that, Bella. I promise I wouldn't stand in your way if you wanted to leave me. (Edward)
224. This isn't just about you anymore. You're not the center of the universe, you know. If you're going to bring the Volturi down on us over something as stupid as leaving me human, then your family ought to have a say. (Bella)
225. I'll earn your trust back somehow. It's my final act. (Edward)
226. I don't mean that I have any aversion to you as a sister. It's just that' this is not the life I would have chosen for myself. I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me. (Rosalie)
227. You've chosen not to live without her, and that doesn't leave me a choice. (Carlisle)
228. Thank you. For wanting to keep me. I feel exactly the same way about all of you, too. (Bella)
229. Seriously, Bella! I don't have any idea how to not kill you. (Alice)
230. You're wounding my ego, Bella. I just proposed to you, and you think it's a joke. (Edward)
231. Well, I'm nearly a hundred and ten. It's time I settled down. (Edward)
232. Because she'd rather you became one of the eternal damned than get married. (Edward)
233. So eager for eternal damnation. (Edward)
234. The fairy tale was back on. Prince returned, bad spell broken. I wasn't sure exactly what to do about the leftover, unresolved character. Where was his happily ever after?Charlie' is probably not going to kill you, but he's thinking about it. (Bella)
235. The sting of betrayal washed through me. I had trusted Jacob implicitly'trusted him with every single secret I had. He was supposed to be my safe harbor'the person I could always rely on. (Bella)
236. Let me go! I'm going to murder him! Traitor! (Bella)
237. I'm already grounded! Why do you think I haven't been down to La Push to kick your butt for avoiding my phone calls? (Bella)
238. Thank you. I will never be able to tell you how grateful I am. I will owe you for the rest of my existence rest of my' existence. (Edward)
239. I'm a quick learner, Jacob Black, and I don't make the same mistake twice. I'm here until she orders me away. (Edward)
240. The only thing that Jacob would want from Edward would be his absence. (Bella)
241. Charlie might just send me to military school. But that won't keep me away from Edward. There's nothing that can do that. (Bella)
242. The treaty is quite specific. If any of them bite a human, the truce is over. Bite, not kill. (Jacob)
243. I knew that last glimpse of his face would haunt me until I saw him smile again. (Bella)
244. Edward was here, with his arms around me. I could face anything as long as that was true. I squared my shoulders and walked forward to meet my fate, with my destiny solidly at my side. (Bella)
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