Quotes by Stephenie Meyer

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb… he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.What a stupid lamb, I sighed.What a sick, masochistic lion.

Its not the face, but the expressions on it. Its not the voice, but what you say. Its not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Look after my heart - Ive left it with you.

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.

The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.

Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you

You are my life now.

Im gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

Eight full lives,” I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. “Eight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? Youre not of my species. How can you be my partner?”“Its a strange universe,” he murmured.“Its not fair,” I complained, echoing Sunnys words. It wasnt fair. How could I find this, find love–now, in this eleventh hour–and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldnt reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too? Was it fair that Ian would suffer? He deserved happiness if anyone did. Itwasnt fair or right or even…sane. How could I do this to him?“I love you,” I whispered.“Dont say that like youre saying goodbye.”But I had to. “I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.” I worded it carefully, so that there would be no lie in my voice. “If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldnt matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

Sometimes you have to learn to love whats good for you.

You know I love you right?”“I know,” he breathed, his arm tightening automatically around my waist. “You know how much I wish it was enough.

Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know Ill never be strong enough to leave again.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.

What am I dying for?

I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. Its a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone elses approval.