Quotes by Stephenie Meyer

Bella: How could I live with myself when it’s my fault? None of you should be risking yourselves for me –Jasper: Bella, Bella, stop. You’re worrying all the wrong things, Bella. Trust me on this – none of us are in jeopardy… Our family is strong. Our only fear is losing you.Bella: But why should you –Alice: It’s been almost a century that Edward’s been alone. Now he’s found you. You can’t see the changes that we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, its not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that Id chosen... 

I tried to concentrate on the angels voice instead.Bella, please! Bella, listen to me, please, please, please, Bella, please! he begged.Yes, I wanted to say. Anything. But I couldnt find my lips. Carlisle! the angel called, agony in his perfect voice. Bella, Bella, no, oh please, no, no! And the angel was sobbing tearless, broken sobs.The angel shouldnt weep, it was wrong. I tried to find him, to tell him everything was fine, but the water was so deep, it was pressing on me, and I couldnt breathe.

Hes like a drug for you, Bella. His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. I see that you cant live without him now. Its too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me. He sighed. The clouds I can handle. But I cant fight with an eclipse.

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

Even in the most compassionate, humankinds limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

Just because she isnt human, do you think that means she doesnt feel pain?

After all Ive seen, if I hadnt learned compassion, I wouldnt be worth much.

Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. - Emmett Cullen

My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came of his skin. it was like there had never been any hole in my chest. i was perfect- not healed but as if there never had been a wound in the first place.

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasnt cold.

It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century.

Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break throughMeaning if someone loves you and its meant to be but for unknown reasons it seems to be over would you somehow get fatalistic messages that would hint at you the truth behind the relationship- are forces at play to try and waken you up to the idea that youre actually meant to be and should be together?

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You know, there was a time when childbirth was possibly the most terrifying thing you could do in your life, and you were literally looking death in the face when you went ahead with it. And so this is a kind of flashback to a time when thats what every woman went through. Not that they got ripped apart, but they had no guarantees about whether they were going to live through it or not. You know, I recently read - and I dont read nonfiction, generally - Becoming Jane Austen. Thats the one subject that would get me to go out and read nonfiction. And the authors conclusion was that one of the reasons Jane Austen might not have married when she did have the opportunity...well, she watched her very dear nieces and friends die in childbirth! And it was like a death sentence: You get married and you will have children. You have children and you will die. (Laughs) I mean, it was a terrifying world.

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply dont have the technology

So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.

How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?

His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny.What? he asked, suddenly self-conscious.Nothing. I just hadnt realised before. Did you know, youre sort of beautiful?Once the words slipped out, I worried that he might take my implusive observation the wrong way.But Jacob rolled his eyes. You hit your head pretty hard, didnt you? Im serious.Well, then, thanks. Sort of.I grinned. Youre sort of welcome.