About

the Twilight saga

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Twilight is the debut, young-adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. Twilight was initially rejected by 14 agents,but became an instant bestseller when published originally in hardback in 2005, debuting at #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list within a month of its release and later peaking at #1. That same year, Twilight was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2005.The novel was also the biggest selling book of 2008 and, to date, has sold 17 million copies around the globe, spent over 91 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and been translated into 37 different languages.

It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. The novel is followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. A film adaptation of Twilight was released in 2008. It was a commercial success, grossing more than $382 million worldwide and an additional $157 million from North American DVD sales, as of July 2009.

Awards

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Praise for Twilight:

A New York Times Editor's Choice
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
An Amazon "Best Book of the Decade...So Far"
A Teen People "Hot List" pick
An American Library Association "Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults" and "Top Ten Books for Reluctant Readers"
Has been translated into 20 languages

"Propelled by suspense and romance in equal parts [this story] will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut."
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The novel's danger-factor skyrockets as the excitement of secret love and hushed affection morphs into a terrifying race to stay alive. Realistic, subtle, succinct, and easy to follow, Twilight will have readers dying to sink their teeth into it."
— School Library Journal (starred review)

Soundtracks

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"Twilight" soundtrack:

Muse - "Supermassive Black Hole"
Paramore - "Decode"
The Black Ghosts - "Full Moon"
Linkin Park - "Leave Out All the Rest"
Mute Math - "Spotlight" ("Twilight" mix)
Perry Farrell - "Going All the Way (Into the Twilight)"
Collective Soul - "Tremble for My Beloved"
Paramore - "I Caught Myself "
Blue Foundation - "Eyes on Fire"
Rob Pattinson - "Never Think"
Iron & Wine - "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
Carter Burwell - "Bella's Lullaby"

"New Moon" soundtrack:

Death Cab For Cutie — "Meet Me on the Equinox"
Band of Skulls — "Friends"
Thom Yorke — "Hering Damage"
Lykke Li — "Possibility"
The Killers — "A White Demon Song"
Anya Marina — "Satellite Heart"
Muse — "I Belong to You (New Moon)"
Bon Iver and St. Vincent — "Rosyln"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — "Done All Wrong"
Hurricane Bells — "Monsters"
Sea Wolf — "The Violet Hour"
Ok Go — "Shooting The Moon"
Grizzly Bear — "Slow Life"
Editors — "No Sound But the Wind"
Alexandre Desplat — "New Moon (The Meadow)"

Characters

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Edward Cullen

The Vampires:

The Humans:

The Werewolves & Quiluetes:

The Hybrids:

Жинхэнэ нэр: Edward Anthony Masen
Төрсөн он, сар, өдөр: 1901.06.20
Төрсөн газар: Chicago, Illinois
Үхсэн он: 1918
Үхлийн шалтгаан: Испанийн томуу өвчний тархалтаар үхэх гэж байхад Carlisle түүнийг вампир болгосон
Нас: хүнээр бол 17
Нүдний өнгө: хүн байхад нь ногоон, вампир болоход нь алтлаг шар-молор, хар ("цангасан" үед нь хар болдог)
Үсний өнгө: улаан хүрэн
Өндөр: 188 см
Гадаад үзэмж: маш царайлаг, нүд булаам, нарийхан өндөр, булчинлаг, үс нь эмх замбраагүй ийш тийш, цав цагаар хүв хүйтэн арьстай (наранд гялалзан гэрэлтдэг), нүднийх нь доор хөх туяа татсан
Онцлог чадвар: бусдын бодлыг уншдаг (Bella-аас бусад), маш хурдан бас их хүчтэй
Хобби: төгөлдөр хуур, хөгжим, машин (мөнгөлөг Volvo S60R, мөнгөлөг Aston Martin V12 Vanquish)
Өргөж авсан гэр бүл: Carlisle Cullen (аав), Esme Cullen (ээж), Alice Cullen (эгч), Emmett Cullen (ах), Rosalie Hale (эгч), and Jasper Hale (ах).
Гэр бүл: Bella Marie Swan (эхнэр), Renesmee Carlie Cullen (охин)

Амьсгалах, унтах, хоол идэх шаардлага байдаггүй

Midnight Sun

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"In that instant, I was nothing close to the human I'd once been; no trace or shreds of humanity I'd managed to cloak myself in remained. I was a predator. She was my prey. There was nothing else in the whole world but that truth."

Release Date: On hold indefinitely (see below)
First 12 Chapters, unfinished: Download in PDF form from StephenieMeyer.com.
Official Update 2, August 2008: In mid-August 2008, the first 12 Chapters of Midnight Sun were leaked online by an unknown source. Fans spread it around the internet, but no fansites posted it in hopes that it was not legitiment and to protect Stephenie's work. Unfortunately, the leak upset Stephenie to the point of making a statement on her website that says she has decided to put the project on hold "indefinitely". You can read the full statement here.
Official Update, June 2008: "In response to the outrageous number of e-mails that I have received with questions concerning Midnight Sun, I talked to Stephenie this weekend and she asked me to let everyone know that Midnight Sun is her next project. She has not yet finished writing it (and there is no timeline set up, so we all need to put a lot of effort into being patient for a while longer), but she is definitely still planning on having it published. And, after Breaking Dawn comes out, Stephenie will have much more time to focus on writing Midnight Sun." -Seth of stepheniemeyer.com.
Summary: Midnight Sun is Twilight from Edward's perspective. It follows Edward through the entirety of the first book in the Twilight series, depicting the events as he perceived them, depicting still other events unseen by Bella, and granting unrestricted insight into the heart and mind of the fabled Edward Cullen.
Behind the Story: On her official site, Meyer discusses Midnight Sun at length, which includes a look into how its writing came about. Read the full behind-the-scenes story right here!

Breaking Dawn

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Everything inside me came undone as I stared at the tiny porcelain face of the half-vampire, half-human baby. All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space. I was not left drifting. A new string held me where I was.

Release Date: August 2nd, 2008.
View Stephenie's Breaking Dawn playlist.
1.3 million copies were sold in the first 24 hours.
Purchase Eclipse Special Edition to read Chapter 1 of Breaking Dawn!
Number of Pages: 768

New Moon

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"I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today."

Release Date: August 2006
Summary: An earth-shattering change to Bella's life makes the previous year's tribulations child's play, for this time, she doesn't have Edward at her side. After he leaves her behind and promises that neither he nor his family will ever return, Bella is devastated and left to pick up the pieces of her life alone.

Until, that is, a budding friendship with Jacob Black fills part of the void and acts as the only source of comfort in Bella's new Edward-less existence. But this new relationship presents its own set of hurdles, and when Jacob begins behaving mysteriously, Bella soon realizes that there is far more to her friend than meets the eye.

As she struggles to unravel the mystery of Jacob Black and the Quileute tribe of La Push, Bella also faces a serious internal struggle as to whether she's capable of letting go of Edward; and if so, is she ready to love Jacob the way he loves her? Even though she doesn't yet really know who-- or what-- Jacob is?

But before she can finish mending her shattered heart, answering these impossible questions, and solving these endless mysteries, there comes an unexpected visitor at her door-- someone she thought she'd never see again.

New Moon takes the reader on an emotional and adventurous journey, complete with secrets, lies, betrayal, and love. It begs the fundamental question, is Bella prepared to forget her life with the Cullens? Is she ready to uncover the hidden identities of her newfound friends? And is she prepared to do this at the expense of forgetting about her vampires, and the world she had with them?

That is, if they'll even let her.
Chapter One: Read the first chapter of New Moon here, from Stephenie Meyer's official site.
Behind the Story: Ever wonder what inspired New Moon and why Meyer wrote it the way she did? Click here for the full account in her own words-- but be warned, there are major spoilers, so read the book first!
Outtakes: Alternate scenes from the book, written by Meyer herself:

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Cast List

Wolf Pack
Chaske Spencer as Sam Uley
Bronson Pelletier as Jared
Alex Meraz as Paul
Kiowa Gordon as Embry Call
Tyson Houseman as Quil Ateara

Other Quileutes
Gil Birmingham as Billy Black
Tinsel Korey as Emily
Graham Greene as Harry Clearwater

the Volturi
Michael Sheen as Aro
Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius
Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus
Cameron Bright as Alec
Charlie Bewley as Demetri
Daniel Cudmore as Felix
Dakota Fanning as Jane
Noot Seear as Heidi
Justine Wachsberger as Giana

Additional Returning Cast Members
Billy Burke as Charlie Swan
Sarah Clarke as Renee Dwyer
Anna Kendrick as Jessica Stanley
Michael Welch as Mike Newton
Christian Serratos as Angela Weber
Justin Chon as Eric Yorkie

Download

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New Moon Trailer 1
New Moon Trailer 2

the Twilight Saga (english):

Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
Midnight Sun (partial draft)

the Twilight Saga (русская версия):

книга Сумерки
книга Новолуние
книга Затмение
книга Рассвет
книга Солнце полуночи (12 глав)

the Twilight Saga (монгол хэлээр, source: asuul.net):

Us

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Twilight

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"About three things I was absolutely positive: First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him — and I didn't know how dominant that part might be — that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."

online-аар үзэх (монгол хэлээр)

Release Date: October 2005
Summary: Isabella Swan is a relatively average teenager with a relatively average life. She hearkens from Phoenix, Arizona, where she lives with her mother. But when Bella moves to Forks, Washington to be with her father, her life quickly becomes anything but average.

Meet the Cullen kids: Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, and Edward-- all five of whom attend Bella's new high school in Forks. Classmates explain to Bella that the Cullens band together and rarely interact with anyone besides themselves, but Bella can tell just by looking that there's something peculiar about them. It doesn't take long to discover what it is.

Bella and Edward become caught in a tense situation in which Edward rescues Bella from a potentially violent fate. His behavior during this encounter succeeds in raising further suspicions, and eventually, Edward is left with little choice but to confess the truth: that he, and his family, are vampires.

The couple grows infinitely close after this revelation, and soon, they realize they're hopelessly in love. But because Edward inexplicably finds Bella's scent exceptionally mouth-watering, his willpower is tested to the breaking point whenever they're near, making Bella's very life the wager hanging in the balance.

Bella and the Cullens barely have time to register these life-altering developments when another coven of hostile vampires appear and threaten the lives of all those living in Forks. It falls upon the Cullens to protect Bella as they simultenously battle to defend themselves, hide their identity, and master their own desire for her blood.

Twilight is the gripping story of two painfully real characters whose love for one another puts their and their families' lives in danger. A New York Times Bestseller and winner of Publisher Weekly's Best Book of the Year award, Twilight encompasses a bit of every genre, making it the ideal novel for every reader.
Behind the Story: What inspired Stephenie Meyer to write Twilight? How did she come up with her characters? Why did Meyer make the plot choices she did? The answers to these and many other questions can be found here, in Meyer's own telling of the story behind the story.
Twilight Trivia: What does the cover art mean? As Meyer explains in her FAQ section, "The apple on the cover of Twilight represents 'forbidden fruit.' I used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because I loved the phrase 'the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.' Isn't this exactly what Bella ends up with? A working knowledge of what good is, and what evil is. The nice thing about the apple is it has so many symbolic roots. You've got the apple in Snow White, one bite and you're frozen forever in a state of not-quite-death... Then you have Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology—look how much trouble that started. Apples are quite the versatile fruit. In the end, I love the beautiful simplicity of the picture. To me it says: choice."
Outtakes: Alternate scenes from Twilight, written by the author herself:

Stephenie Meyer

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Stephenie Meyer's life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head.

"Though I had a million things to do, I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to writeâ€”something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering."

Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, and wrote it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight. With encouragement from her older sister (the only other person who knew she had written a book), Meyer submitted her manuscript to various literary agencies. Twilight was picked out of a slush pile at Writer's House and eventually made its way to the publishing company Little, Brown where everyone fell immediately in love with the gripping, star-crossed lovers.

Twilight was one of 2005's most talked about novels and within weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list. Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an "ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults," an Amazon.com "Best Book of the Decade...So Far", and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006, and spent more than 25 weeks at the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list.

In 2007, Eclipse literally landed around the world and fans made the Twilight Saga a worldwide phenomenon! With midnight parties and vampire-themed proms the enthusiasm for the series continued to grow.

On May 6, 2008, Little, Brown and Company released The Host, Meyer's highly-anticipated novel for adults which debuted at #1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. The Host still remains a staple on the bestseller lists more than a year after its debut.

On August 2, 2008, the final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn was released at 12:01 midnight. Stephenie made another appearance on "Good Morning America" and was featured in many national media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, People Magazine and Variety. Stephenie headlined the Breaking Dawn Concert Series with Justin Furstenfeld (lead singer of Blue October) to celebrate the release in four major markets across the US. Breaking Dawn sold 1.3 million copies in its first 24 hours.

The Twilight movie, directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, was released on November 21, 2008. Twilight debuted at #1 at the box office with $70 million, making it the highest grossing opening weekend for a female director.

Stephenie lives in Arizona with her husband and three sons.

Here is a list of interviews with Stephenie Meyer, and links to the text, audio, or video.

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Former bio

Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in English. She lives with her husband and three young sons in Phoenix, Arizona. After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly).

Quotes

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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? (Laurent)
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)

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)

1. I could imagine the frustration pulling his black eyebrows together and crumpling his forehead. If I’d been there, I might have laughed. Don’t give yourself a brain hemorrhage, Jacob, I would have told him. Just spit it out. (Bella)
2. The word boyfriend had me chewing on the inside of my cheek with a familiar tension while I stirred. It wasn’t the right word, not at all. I needed something more expressive of eternal commitment… But words like destiny and fate sounded hokey when you used them in casual conversation. (Bella)
3. There’s no law that says I can’t cook in my own house. (Charlie)
4. It worked — your cooking skills have me soft as a marshmallow. (Bella)
5. So I’m thinking maybe you deserve a parole for good behavior. For a teenager, you’re amazingly non-whiney. (Charlie)
6. Isn’t Edward up for a little healthy competition? (Charlie)
7. You and Billy gossip like old women. (Bella)
8. I want to be a monster, too. (Bella)
9. Monsters are not a joke, Bella. (Edward)
10. You know it’s out of the question for you to be around a werewolf unprotected, Bella. And it would break the treaty if any of us cross over onto their land. Do you want us to start a war? (Edward)
11. If we could bottle your luck, we’d have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands. (Edward)
12. If Jacob hadn’t helped me… I’m not sure what you would have come home to. I owe him better than this, Edward. (Bella)
13. I’ll never forgive myself for leaving you. Not if I live a hundred thousand years. (Edward)
14. If I’d never left, you wouldn’t feel the need to go risk your life to comfort a dog. (Edward)
15. Alice was scrutinizing my boring jeans-and-a-t-shirt outfit in a way that made me self-conscious. Probably plotting another makeover. I sighed. My indifferent attitude to fashion was a constant thorn in her side. If I’d allow it, she’d love to dress me every day — perhaps several times a day — like some oversized three-dimensional paper doll. (Bella)
16. I’m sure I still have boundaries — like the continental U.S., for example. (Bella)
17. You know how I am with tools. No pain was inflicted intentionally. (Bella)
18. The outside world holds no interest for me without you. (Edward)
19. It’s not like I’m headed off to Vegas to be a showgirl or anything. I’m going to see Mom. (Bella)
20. Interceded? You threw me to the sharks! (Bella)
21. Edward and Alice playing chess was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. They’d sat there nearly motionless, staring at the board, while Alice foresaw the moves he would make and he picked the moves she would make in return out of her head. They played most of the game in their minds; I think they’d each moved two pawns when Alice suddenly flicked her king over and surrendered. It took all of three minutes. (Bella)
22. Please tell me you are not trying to have a sex talk with me, Charlie. (Bella)
23. I really wish you were not forcing me to say this out loud, Dad. Really. But… I am a… virgin, and I have no immediate plans to change that status. (Bella)
24. Shut your window if you want me to stay away tonight. I’ll understand. (Edward)
25. Renée is so much more… perceptive than Charlie in some ways. It was making me jumpy. (Bella)
26. There’s something… strange about the way you two are together. The way he watches you — it’s so… protective. Like he’s about to throw himself in front of a bullet to save you or something. (Renee)
27. The way you move — you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets… or gravity. You’re like a… satellite, or something. (Renee)
28. With a sense of astonishment, I realized that Jacob looked dangerous to them. How odd. (Bella)
29. Sorry. I don’t have any leeches on my speed dial. (Jacob)
30. Edward cut him off mid-sentence, and his face was abruptly frightening — truly frightening. For a second, he looked like… like a vampire. (Bella)
31. I wasn’t about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive. (Edward)
32. I’d wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I’d run you back to the scene of the accident, and we’d stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history. (Edward)
33. Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down. (Mike)
34. I’m really glad Edward didn’t kill you. Everything’s so much more fun with you around. (Emmett)
35. So the consensus was that I was just supposed to forget that a deranged vampire was stalking me, intent on my death. (Bella)
36. I’ll be back so soon you won’t have time to miss me. Look after my heart — I’ve left it with you. (Edward)
37. Alice was certainly just as capable of crippling my truck as Edward was. (Bella)
38. The fortune-telling bloodsucker can’t see us? Seriously? That’s excellent! (Jacob)
39. I love him. Not because he’s beautiful or because he’s rich! I’d much rather he weren’t either one. It would even out the gap between us just a little bit — because he’d still be the most loving and unselfish and brilliant and decent person I’ve ever met. Of course I love him. How hard is that to understand? (Bella)
40. You know, Jacob, you’re awfully self-righteous — considering that you’re a werewolf and all. (Bella)
41. They shouldn’t exist. Their existence goes against nature. (Jacob)
42. What I am was born in me. It’s a part of who I am, who my family is, who we all are as a tribe — it’s the reason why we’re still here. (Jacob)
43. Normal humans can’t throw motorcycles around the way you can. (Bella)
44. Normal humans run away from monsters, Bella. And I never claimed to be normal. Just human. (Jacob)
45. Most people fall in and out of love many times in their lives. It was just that I’d seen Sam with Emily, and I couldn’t imagine him with someone else. The way he looked at her… well, it reminded me of a look I’d seen sometimes in Edward’s eyes — when he was looking at me.(bella)
46. You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs. (Jacob)
47. Am I the only one who has to get old? I get older every stinking day! Damn it! What kind of world is this? Where’s the justice? (Bella)
48. Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV. (Jacob)
49. I’m a pro at weird. (Bella)
50. I don’t care who’s a vampire and who’s a werewolf. That’s irrelevant. You are Jacob, and he is Edward, and I am Bella. And nothing else matters. (Bella)
51. I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are… well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don’t care who’s a werewolf and who’s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too. (Bella)
52. Well… don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog. (Edward)
53. You’re kidnapping me, aren’t you? (Bella)
54. Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior. (Bella)
55. You are in trouble. Enormous trouble. Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home. (Bella)
56. This hostage stuff is fun. (Alice)
57. Porsches as bribes and king-sized beds in houses where nobody slept — it was beyond irritating. (Bella)
58. If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now. (Rosalie)
59. Why don’t you just lock me in the basement, and forget the sugar coating? (Bella)
60. So what’s the latest pack scandal? (Bella)
61. It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her… You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother. (Jacob)
62. I traded a lifetime of servitude for a box of conversation hearts. That’s not something I’m likely to forget. (Bella)
63. You’d be better off dead. I rather you were. (Jacob)
64. I’m going to spontaneously combust one of these days — and you’ll have no one but yourself to blame. (Bella)
65. You can hold me hostage any time you want. (Bella)
66. You’re quite adorable when you’re jealous. It’s surprisingly enjoyable. (Edward)
67. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. (Edward)
68. There’s… well, there’s this other problem that’s slightly more worrisome than a bratty teenage werewolf…(Bella)
69. Is it really so impossible to wear clothes, Jacob? (Bella)
70. What do I look like, a pack mule? (Jacob)
71. Does my being half-naked bother you? (Jacob)
72. What’s it like — having a vampire for a boyfriend? (Jacob)
73. What’s it like — having a werewolf for a best friend? (Jacob)
74. One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively. (Jacob)
75. Okay! Time for the werewolf to get out! (Bella)
76. It gets easier. After a few decades, everyone you know is dead. Problem solved. (Edward)
77. Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren’t in love with me? (Edward)
78. It was stupid to want to go hang out with a bunch of big idiot wolf-boys right now when there was so much that was frightening and unexplained going on. Of course, that was exactly why I wanted to go. I wanted to escape the death threats, for just a few hours . . . to be the less-mature, more-reckless Bella who could laugh it off with Jacob, if only briefly. (Bella)
79. Hanging out with no one but extremely dexterous people all the time was going to give me a complex. (Bella)
80. Other than a few teasing complaints — mostly by Paul — about keeping the bloodsucker stench downwind, I was treated like someone who belonged. (Bella)
81. What’s the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole? (Bella)
82. And your chocolate fur reflects what? How sweet you are? (Sam)
83. How can someone so tiny by so annoying? (Edward)
84. If there were any way for me to become human for you — no matter what the price was, I would pay it. (Edward)
85. I’m not that girl, Edward. The one who gets married right out of high school like some small-town hick who got knocked up by her boyfriend! (Bella)
86. My instincts told me that there was danger, that the angel had meant it when she spoke of killing, but my judgment overruled my instincts. I had not been taught to fear women, but to protect them. (Jasper)
87. Jasper shows up, covered in battle scars, towing this little freak who greets them all by name, knows everything about them, and wants to know which room she can move into. (Edward)
88. I hate being babysat. (Bella)
89. Do me a favor and challenge him to an arm-wrestling match. It would be a good experience for him. (Edward)
90. I wanted to make both of them get out of their cars and shake hands and be friends — be Edward and Jacob rather than vampire and werewolf. It was as if I had those two stubborn magnets in my hands again, and I was holding them together, trying to force nature to reverse herself… (Bella)
91. Hey, it’s the least I can do — I offered eternal servitude, remember. I’m your slave for life. (Jacob
92. I miss you when you’re not there. When you’re happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You’re family. I love you, but I’m not in love with you. (Bella)
93. You can have me the way I am — bad behavior included — or not at all. (Jacob)
94. You love me, too. Not the same way, I know. But he’s not your whole life, either. Not anymore. Maybe he was once, but he left. And now he’s just going to have to deal with the consequence of that choice — me. (Jacob)
95. Until your heart stops beating, Bella. I’ll be here — fighting. Don’t forget that you have options. (Jacob)
96. I can’t wait to see what Edward does to you! I hope he snaps your neck, you pushy, obnoxious, moronic DOG! (Bella)
97. I’ll give you passionate. Murder, the ultimate crime of passion. (Bella)
98. If I think about you tonight, it will be because I’m having a nightmare. (Bella)
99. When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go. You could be happy with me. (Jacob)
100. That was not kissing back, that was trying to get you the hell off of me, you idiot. (Bella)
101. Next time you want to hit me, use a baseball bat or a crowbar, okay? (Jacob)
102. I’m not going to kill you now, because it would upset Bella. (Edward)
103. But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don’t care whose fault it is; I don’t care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel? (Edward)
104. She is mine. I didn’t say I would fight fair. (Edward)
105. I punched a werewolf in the face. (Bella)
106. I guess I could throw in a few extra homicides, if it makes Jasper happy. Why not? (Bella)
107. Stupid, thieving, annoying vampire! (Bella)
108. Well, everyone can relax. Nobody’s trying to exterminate the Cullens after all. (Bella)
109. No matter what side I’m on, if someone kisses you without your permission, you should be able to make your feelings clear without hurting yourself. (Charlie)
110. Everyone will come. They’re all dying to see the inside of the reclusive Cullens’ mystery house. (Edward)
111. In case my right hook was too subtle for you, let me translate: that was me uninviting you. (Bella)
112. We have a few advantages, dog. It will be an even fight. (Jasper)
113. People — well, vampires and werewolves really, but still — people I loved were going to get hurt. Hurt because of me. Again. I wished my bad luck would focus a little more carefully. (Bella)
114. You truly are one frightening little monster. (Jasper)
115. To think it’s come to this, though! Trusting werewolves! (Edward)
116. The imprinting compulsion is one of the strangest things I’ve ever witnessed in my life, and I’ve seen some strange things. (Edward)
117. The pack mind is mesmerizing. All thinking together and then separately at the same time. There’s so much to read! (Edward)
118. Never be afraid to tell me how you feel, Bella. If this is what you need… You are my first priority. (Edward)
119. Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut. (Bella)
120. You worry too much, Bella. You’re going to go prematurely gray. (Alice)
121. Edward is such a grouch when he doesn’t get his way. (Alice)
122. I’m the only one who has permission to hold you hostage, remember? (Edward)
123. I leaned into him, ducking my head under his arm and cuddling into his side. It probably felt similar to snuggling with Michelangelo’s David, except that this perfect marble creature wrapped his arms around me to pull me closer. (Bella)
124. Listen to your heart fly. It’s fluttering like a hummingbird’s wings. Are you all right? (Edward)
125. I’ve already made the largest concession by far and away — I’ve agreed to take your life away against my better judgment. And that ought to entitle me to a few compromises on your part. (Edward)
126. I didn’t realize there was anything else you wanted besides being transformed into a monster yourself. I’m extremely curious. (Edward)
127. I didn’t have the faintest idea how to be seductive. I would just have to settle for flushed and self-conscious. (Bella)
128. I already know how strong you are. You didn’t have to break the furniture. (Bella)
129. Bella. Would you please stop trying to take your clothes off? (Edward)
130. There isn’t much that’s traditional about you and me. (Bella)
131. You make me feel like a villain in a melodrama — twirling my mustache while I try to steal some poor girl’s virtue. (Bella)
132. Yes, but you’re such a bad liar that it doesn’t really count. Nobody believes you. (Edward)
133. I had no right to want you — but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what’s become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire. (Edward)
134. We’ll go to Vegas — you can wear old jeans and we’ll go to the chapel with the drive-through window. I just want it to be official — that you belong to me and no one else. (Edward)
135. Show me the damn ring, Edward. (Bella)
136. You are the most dangerous creature I’ve ever met. (Edward)
137. I supposed it’s a little outdated. Old-fashioned, just like me. (Edward)
138. Isabella Swan? I promise to love you forever — every single day of forever. Will you marry me? (Edward)
139. The urge to fight must be a defining characteristic of the Y chromosome. They were all the same. (Bella)
140. You know, Edward, as a brother, you are sometimes a disappointment. (Alice)
141. I’ve got a first aid kit. I had a feeling I might need it. (Edward)
142. Bunch of vampires trying to kill you. The usual. (Jacob)
143. Does that mean that he’s a better kisser that I am? (Jacob)
144. But I don’t count that as a kiss, Jacob. I think of it more as an assault. (Bella)
145. According to you, you’ve kissed just one person — who isn’t even really a person — in your whole life, and you’re calling it quits? How do you know that’s what you want? Shouldn’t you play the field a little? (Jacob)
146. You could kiss me, for example. I don’t mind if you want to use me to experiment. (Jacob)
147. Don’t mess with me, Jake. I swear I won’t stop him if he wants to break your jaw. (Bella)
148. Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf. (Jacob)
149. You’re an enormous monster who refuses to respect anyone else’s personal space. (Bella)
150. I make you nervous. But only when I’m human. When I’m a wolf, you’re more comfortable around me. (Jacob)
151. When are you finally going to figure out that you’re in love with me, too? (Jacob)
152. Leave it to you to ruin the moment. (Bella)
153. I don’t see you making yourself useful. Why don’t you go fetch a space heater or something? (Edward)
154. Go fetch a space heater. I’m not a St. Bernard. (Jacob)
155. I’m sure she’ll thank you for this when her toes turn black and drop off. (Jacob)
156. Don’t be stupid. Don’t you like having ten toes? (Jacob)
157. You don’t have the faintest idea how much I wish I could do what you’re doing for her, mongrel. (Edward)
158. I wondered if the Cullens and the Quileutes weren’t just playing up that whole odor issue because of their prejudices. Everyone smelled fine to me. (Bella)
159. Why are you so much furrier than your friends? (Bella)
160. You have no idea how loud your little fantasies are. It’s like you’re shouting them at me. (Edward)
161. You mean, ‘as much as I’d love to kill you, I’m glad she’s warm,’ right? (Jacob)
162. I think you were just worried that if you really forced her to choose, she might not choose you. (Jacob)
163. After I’d accepted that she was more or less safe with you — as safe as Bella ever is — it seemed best to stop driving her to extremes. (Edward)
164. As long as she wants me, I’m here. (Edward)
165. You see, Jacob, you might leave her someday. Like Sam and Emily, you wouldn’t have a choice. I would always be waiting in the wings, hoping for that to happen. (Edward)
166. You know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you. (Edward)
167. I didn’t say it wasn’t the best night I’ve ever spent. Just that I didn’t get a lot of sleep. I thought Bella was never going to shut up. (Jacob)
168. But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that. (Edward)
169. All of my best nights have happened since I met you. (Edward)
170. Near the end, though, you started mumbling some nonsense about ‘Jacob, my Jacob.’ Your Jacob enjoyed that quite a lot. (Edward)
171. It made no difference that Jacob was not human when he cried out. I needed no translation. (Bella)
172. Do you think I care whether it’s fair or whether he was adequately warned? I’m hurting him. Every time I turn around, I’m hurting him again. I’m a hideous person. (Bella)
173. Edward would never see me shed another tear for Jacob Black. (Bella)
174. Kiss me, Jacob. Kiss me, and then come back. (Bella)
175. That should have been our first kiss. Better late than never. (Jacob)
176. I lay facedown across the sleeping bag, waiting for justice to find me. Maybe an avalanche would bury me here. I wished it would. I never wanted to have to see my face in the mirror again. (Bella)
177. And I thought I fought dirty. He makes me look like the patron saint of ethics. I’m not mad at you, love. Jacob’s more cunning than I gave him credit for. I do wish you hadn’t asked him, though. (Edward)
178. It’s just that he would have kissed you anyway — even if you hadn’t fallen for it — and now I don’t have an excuse to break his face. I would have really enjoyed that, too. (Edward)
179. When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark — on both of you. I’m not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can’t blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn’t let me escape the consequences. (Edward)
180. What happened to fighting back? Don’t start with the noble self-sacrifice now! Fight! (Bella)
181. You said I could have any part of you I wanted. I want this part. I want every part. (Bella)
182. First, because you are bizarrely moral for a vampire. (Bella)
183. Bella, can you drop the rock, please? Carefully. Don’t hurt yourself. (Edward)
184. I’m fine. I’m okay. I’m just. Freaking out. Give me. A minute. (Bella)
185. I didn’t want you to see that. See me like that. I know I must have terrified you. (Edward)
186. I just beheaded and dismembered a sentient creature not twenty yards from you. That doesn’t bother you? (Edward)
187. Just you wait till I’m a vampire! I’m not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time. (Bella)
188. The Volturi do not honor truces with werewolves. (Edward)
189. This one seems to bring out bizarrely strong reactions in our kind. (Jane)
190. You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there. It’s no wonder that Aro was so curious about your future abilities. (Alice)
191. One minute it was that wolf yowling, and then you couldn’t hear it anymore — Jake’s cussing drowned it right out. Got a set of lungs on him, that boy does. (Charlie)
192. Have you ever noticed how big those Quileute kids all are? (Charlie)
193. If only I could be struck by lightning and be split in two. Preferably painfully. For the first time, giving up being human felt like a true sacrifice. Like it might be too much to lose. (Bella)
194. Dr. Fang isn’t sure how much pain medication I need, so he’s going with trial and error. Think he overdid it. (Jacob)
195. Why didn’t anyone ever try to kill me when I wanted to die? (Bella)
196. Don’t you think you ought to know how you feel — just so that it doesn’t take you by surprise someday when it’s too late and you’re a married vampire? (Jacob)
197. How can we be friends, when we love each other like this? (Bella)
198. Two futures, two soul mates… too much for any one person. (Bella)
199. He’s like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can’t live without him now. It’s too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun. (Jacob)
200. Silly Jacob — don’t you know better than to believe vampire stories? (Bella)
201. I’ll always be waiting in the wings, Bella. You’ll always have that spare option if you want it. (Jacob)
202. I probably won’t think she’s good enough for you. I wonder how jealous I’ll be. (Bella)
203. My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I’d made, every bit of harm I’d done, the small things and the big things. Each pain I’d caused Jacob, each wound I’d given Edward, stacked up into neat piles that I could not ignore or deny. (Bella)
204. It had not been Edward and Jacob that I’d been trying to force together, it was the two parts of myself, Edward’s Bella and Jacob’s Bella. But they could not exist together, and I never should have tried. (Bella)
205. Edward, I know who I can’t live without. (Bella)
206. Go play with Edward. I have to get to work. (Alice)
207. I’ve chosen my life — now I want to start living it. (Bella)
208. You don’t fight fair. (Edward)
209. It’s a good thing you’re bulletproof. I’m going to need that ring. It’s time to tell Charlie. (Bella)
210. I’d hate to shatter the dream world you live in — the one where the sun is orbiting the place where you stand — so I won’t tell you how little I care what your problem is. Go. Away. (Jacob)
211. This is making me sick, Jacob. Can you imagine what this feels like to me? I don’t even like Bella Swan. And you’ve got me grieving over this leech-lover like I’m in love with her, too. Can you see where that might be a little confusing? I dreamed about kissing her last night! What the hell am I supposed to do with that? (Leah)
212.. Now Sue, she would have made one hell of a wolf. Leah’s more of a wolverine. (Billy)
213.. If the silence in my head lasted, I would never go back. I wouldn’t be the first one to choose this form over the other. Maybe, if I ran far enough away, I would never have to hear again… I pushed my legs faster, letting Jacob Black disappear behind me. (Jacob)

1. I’d had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn’t something you ever really got used to. (Bella)
2. You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? (Bella)
3. It was still considered rude to stare at people, wasn’t it? Didn’t that apply to me anymore? (Bella)
4. I was going without a lot of things these days, like Pop-Tarts and shoelaces, to avoid spending time in public. (Bella)
5. Personally, I didn’t get it. But then, I was just proud I could distinguish between the symbols for Toyota, Ford, and Chevy. This car was glossy black, sleek, and pretty, but it was still just a car to me. (Bella)
6. Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof? (Bella)
7. Virtual indestructibility was just one of the many perks I was looking forward to. The best parts about being a Cullen were not expensive cars and impressive credit cards. (Bella)
8. The phrase “bite my head off” was not entirely a figure of speech when it came to Leah. (Bella)
9. Stop fidgeting, Bella. Please try to remember that you’re not confessing to a murder here. (Edward)
10. Wait till he hangs his gun up! (Bella)
11. Edward grimaced, and I knew it was in objection to the word okay. He probably would have used something more like wonderful or perfect or glorious. (Bella)
12. I wanted to elbow Edward in the ribs, but I knew that move would only give me a bruise. I’d told Edward that people would immediately jump to this conclusion! What other possible reason would sane people have for getting married at eighteen? (His answer then had made me roll my eyes. Love. Right.) (Bella)
13. The ultimate doom: telling Renée. Early marriage was higher up on her blacklist than boiling live puppies. (Bella)
14. You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. (Renee)
15. No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot. (Alice)
16. Go to your happy place, Bella. It won’t take long. (Alice)
17. You’d think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice)
18. Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire. (Bella)
19. I opened my eyes and found his open, too, staring at my face. It made no sense when he looked at me that way. Like I was the prize rather than the outrageously lucky winner. (Bella)
20. Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point. (Edward)
21. How different it would be when he didn’t need to worry about me anymore. What would he do with all his free time? He’d have to get a new hobby. (Bella)
22. I’ve been waiting a century to marry you, Miss Swan. (Edward)
23. I clutched him closer for one second and then released him. I didn’t have a prayer of winning a tug-of-war with Emmett. (Bella)
24. If you don’t send Edward out, we’re coming in after him! (Emmett)
25. Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You’re not taking him to a strip club, are you? (Bella)
26. I’ve only allotted so much time to make you stunning, Bella – you might have taken better care of my raw material. (Alice)
27. No one will dare to call you plain when I’m through with you. (Alice)
28. Deep breaths, Bella. And try to lower your heart rate. You’re going to sweat off your new face. (Alice)
29. Bells, we’re up to bat. (Charlie)
30. Don’t let me fall, Dad. (Bella)
31. I tried to comprehend, through the film of tears blinding me, the surreal fact that this amazing person was mine. (Bella)
32. One scorching hug stood out from all the others – Seth Clearwater had braved the throng of vampires to stand in for my lost werewolf friend. (Bella)
33. We took turns shoving cake in each other’s faces; Edward manfully swallowed his portion as I watched in disbelief. I threw my bouquet with atypical skill, right into Angela’s surprised hands. Emmett and Jasper howled with laughter at my blush while Edward removed my borrowed garter – which I’d shimmied down nearly to my ankle – very carefully with his teeth. With a quick wink at me, he shot it straight into Mike Newton’s face. (Bella)
34. I feel just horrible, leaving you to cook for yourself – it’s practically criminal negligence. You could arrest me. (Bella)
35. Stop blubbering, Bella. You’ll ruin your dress. It’s just me. (Jacob)
36. Yeah – the party can start. The best man finally made it. (Jacob)
37. I tell you, if I could get rid of the voices in my head, being a wolf would be about perfect. (Jacob)
38. Insanity is probably easier than sharing a pack mind. Crazy people’s voices don’t send babysitters to watch them. (Jacob)
39. Alice is an unstoppable force of nature. (Bella)
40. I’d been so glad to see Jacob here. I knew the sacrifice it had taken him. And then I’d ruined it, turned his gift into a disaster. I should be quarantined. (Bella)
41. You’re monopolizing the bride. Let me dance with my little sister. This could be my last chance to make her blush. (Emmett)
42. You’re awfully small to be so hugely irritating. (Edward)
43. Oh well, I thought to myself. He was a vampire, after all. Maybe we were going to Atlantis. (Bella)
44. I’m sure you’d like a human minute or two… It was a long journey. (Edward)
45. Did my skin burst into flames? I had to look down to check. Nope, nothing was burning. At least, not visibly. (Bella)
46. I was freaking out because I had no idea how to do this, and I was afraid to walk out of this room and face the unknown. Especially in French lingerie. I knew I wasn’t ready for that yet. (Bella)
47. I wouldn’t use the word beautiful. Not with you standing here in comparison. (Edward)
48. Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him. (Bella)
49. Stop acting like I’m not a monster for having agreed to this. (Edward)
50. Why am I covered in feathers? (Bella)
51. You… bit a pillow? Why? (Bella)
52. Do not say the word fine. If you value my sanity, do not say that you are fine. (Edward)
53. I was perfectly happy. Totally and completely blissed out. Now – well, I’m sort of pissed actually. (Bella)
54. That. That right there is why I’m angry. You are killing my buzz, Edward.(Bella)
55. Did you expect this, Bella? Were you anticipating that I would hurt you? Were you thinking it would be worse? Do you consider the experiment a success because you can walk away from it? No broken bones – that equals a victory? (Edward)
56. I can’t ignore the evidence, Bella. Or your history of trying to let me off the hook when I make mistakes. (Edward)
57. We’re just lucky it was the pillows and not you. (Edward)
58. You are making me insane, Bella. (Edward)
59. You are so human, Bella. Ruled by your hormones. (Edward)
60. You haven’t said a word in your sleep since we got here. If it weren’t for the snoring, I’d worry you were slipping into a coma. (Edward)
61. In this dream that was both new and old, I simply had to protect the unknown child. There was no other option. At the same time, I knew that I would fail. (Bella)
62. Do you want me to sing to you? I’ll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away. (Edward)
63. How much trouble am I in? (Bella)
64. The pillows all appear to have survived. (Bella)
65. You seem to be extraordinarily unobservant when your attention is otherwise involved. (Edward)
66. You look so guilty – like you’ve committed a crime. (Edward)
67. So you seduced your all-too-willing husband. That’s not a capital offense. (Edward)
68. If I don’t have a better sense of equilibrium in my next life, I’m demanding a refund. (Bella)
69. Sex was the key all along? Why didn’t I think of that? I could have saved myself a lot of arguments. (Edward)
70. I don’t know… I’ve already mangled the headboard in the other room beyond repair – maybe if we limit the destruction to one area of the house, Esme might invite us back someday. (Edward)
71. Are you trying to pass this illness off as PMS? (Edward)
72. The phone kept ringing. I wished Edward would answer it – I was having a moment. Possibly the biggest of my life. (Bella)
73. I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? (Bella)
74. Surprising, absolutely. Astonishing, even. But wrong? No. So why was Edward so furious? He was the one who had actually wished out loud for a shotgun wedding. (Bella)
75. This child, Edward’s child, was a whole different story. I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice – a necessity. (Bella)
76. I wished I could speak Portuguese, or that my Spanish was less rudimentary, so that I could try to thank this woman who had dared to anger a vampire just to check on me. (Bella)
77. All this mandatory love-at-first-sight was completely sickening! (Jacob)
78. I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up? (Jacob)
79. Bella was either coming back one of them, or not coming back. Either way, a human life had been lost. And that meant game on. (Jacob)
80. You missed the party. Princess theme. She made me wear a crown, and then Emily suggested they all try out her new play makeup on me. (Quil)
81. It was hard being around imprinted people. No matter what stage they were in – about to tie the knot like Sam or just a much-abused nanny like Quil – the peace and certainty they always radiated was downright puke-inducing. (Jacob)
82. I honor my pack. I do what’s best for them. (Sam)
83. Huh – I wondered if Sam would consider my death provocation. Probably say I got what I deserved. Wouldn’t want to offend his bloodsucker BFFs. (Jacob)
84. Ugh. Reeking vampires. (Jacob)
85. If there was such a thing as a safe vampire, it was the strangely gentle leader. (Jacob)
86. They were all here, all together, but that was not what froze me where I stood and had my jaw dropping to the floor. It was Edward. It was the expression on his face. I’d seen him angry, and I’d seen him arrogant, and once I’d seen him in pain. But this – this was beyond agony. His eyes were half-crazed. He didn’t look up to glare at me. He stared down at the couch beside him with an expression like someone had lit him on fire. His hands were rigid claws at his side. (Jacob)
87. I didn’t want to see this, didn’t want to think about this. I didn’t want to imagine him inside her. I didn’t want to know that something I hated so much had taken root in the body I loved. (Jacob)
88. I didn’t want to kill girls… even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde. (Jacob)
89. I’m not ready for you to kill me yet, Jacob Black. You’ll have to have a little patience. (Edward)
90. This was the face a man would have if he were burning at the stake. (Jacob)
91. Jeez, she was running true to form. Of course, die for the monster spawn. It was so Bella. (Jacob)
92. Did you ever notice that she’s exactly as strong as a normal hundred-and-ten-pound human girl? How stupid are you vamps? Hold her down and knock her out with drugs. (Jacob)
93. Maybe he should have thought about all this before he knocked her up with the life-sucking monster. (Jacob)
94. Even you, Jacob Black, cannot hate me as much as I hate myself. (Edward)
95. You know her, Jacob. You connect to her on a level that I don’t even understand. You are part of her, and she is part of you. (Edward)
96. I wondered if he was really going crazy. Could vampires lose their minds? (Jacob)
97. I don’t care about anything but keeping her alive. If it’s a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants. She can have puppies, if that’s what it takes. (Edward)
98. I couldn’t think about what he was suggesting. It was too much. Impossible. Wrong. Sick. Borrowing Bella for the weekends and then returning her Monday morning like a rental movie? SO messed up. So tempting. (Jacob)
99. Make Bella see sense? What universe do you live in? (Jacob)
100. Where is this psycho crap coming from? Are you making this up as you go? (Jacob)
101. I couldn’t believe I was even thinking about this. Bella would punch me – not that I cared about that, but it would probably break her hand again. (Jacob)
102. The moment Bella’s heart stops beating, I will be begging for you to kill me. (Edward)
103. I felt like – like I don’t know what. Like this wasn’t real. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom. Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire’s wife to shack up and procreate. Nice. (Jacob)
104. Over my pile of ashes. (Rosalie)
105. I’m not going to lie, Bells. You’re hideous. (Jacob)
106. Did you know that ‘I told you so’ has a brother, Jacob? His name is ‘Shut the hell up.’ (Bella)
107. To talk some sense into you. There’s a battle that’s lost before it starts. (Jacob)
108. I did know this – every second I spent with her was only going to add to the pain I would have to suffer later. Like a junkie with a limited supply, the day of reckoning was coming for me. The more hits I took now, the harder it would be when my supply ran out. (Jacob)
109. Is dementia one of your symptoms? (Jacob)
110. I’m not saying things will work out easily, Jake. But how could I have lived through all that I’ve lived through and not believe in magic by this point? (Bella)
111. If she hadn’t looked so fragile I would’ve been screaming. As it was, I did growl at her. (Jacob)
112. If you think that imprinting could ever make sense of this insanity… Do you really think that just because I might someday imprint on some stranger it would make this right? Tell me what the point was then, Bella! What was the point of me loving you? What was the point of you loving him? When you die, how is that ever right again? What’s the point to all the pain? Mine, yours, his! You’ll kill him, too, not that I care about that. So what was the point of your twisted love story, in the end? If there is any sense, please show me, Bella, because I don’t see it. (Jacob)
113. You’re dying for nothing, Bella! Nothing! (Jacob)
114. Emergency vampirization. (Jacob)
115. I realized I needed her to stay alive, in some form. In any form. (Jacob)
116. Oh, I hadn’t heard the great news. A bouncing baby boy, huh? Shoulda brought some blue balloons. (Jacob)
117. Shut up, Bella. You can spout this crap to your bloodsucker, but you’re not fooling me. (Jacob)
118. Please, Jacob. You think I should kill my baby and replace it with some generic substitute? (Bella)
119. I told you he was going crazy. Literally, Bells. (Jacob)
120. I wish I could explain it to you right so that you would understand. I can’t hurt him any more than I could pick up a gun and shoot you. I love him. (Bella)
121. Why do you always have to love the wrong things, Bella? (Jacob)
122. I’m not going to hang around and watch you die, Bella. (Jacob)
123. I almost went back. I almost turned around and fell down on my knees and started begging again. But I knew that I had to quit Bella, quit her cold turkey, before she killed me, like she was going to kill him. (Jacob)
124. You will not be cruel to him, Leah. Bella’s sacrifice is a heavy price, and we will all recognize that. It is against everything we stand for to take a human life. Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing. We will all mourn for what we do tonight. (Sam)
125. There was fear in the pack, not so much for self but for the whole. We couldn’t imagine that we would all make it out alive tonight. Which brothers would we lose? Which minds would leave us forever? Which grieving families would we be consoling in the morning? (Jacob)
126. No one could dispute the Alpha’s decision – except for me. I hadn’t earned anything. But there were things that had been born in me, things that I’d left unclaimed. I’d never wanted to lead the pack. I didn’t want to do it now. I didn’t want the responsibility for all our fates resting on my shoulders. Sam was better at that than I would ever be. But he was wrong tonight. And I had not been born to kneel to him. The bonds fell off my body the second that I embraced my birthright. (Jacob)
127. This isn’t about them. This is about Bella. She has never been the one for you, she had never chosen you, but you continue to destroy your life for her! (Sam)
129. Do you belong to a coven now, Jacob? (Sam)
130. How did everything get messed up and twisted so that I was here now, all alone, an unwilling Alpha, cut off from my brothers, choosing vampires over them? (Jacob)
131. Wait up. My legs aren’t as long as yours. (Seth)
132. I didn’t follow you because I was after a promotion. (Seth)
133. You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up? (Seth)
134. Wouldn’t it be just peachy if I couldn’t take care of Seth for one freaking night? What if something happened to him on my watch? Leah would shred me into kibble. (Jacob)
135. This would be a lot easier if the communication wasn’t one way. Then again, I was kinda glad I wasn’t in his head. (Jacob)
136. Nice to have toddlers guarding the fort. (Emmett)
137. It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? I’m joining your crappy little renegade pack. The vampires’ guard dogs. (Leah)
138. Wanna race, O fearless leader? (Leah)
139. Shut up, Jacob. Oops, I’m sorry – I mean, shut up, most high Alpha. (Leah)
140. You think I’m just going to sit home while my little brother volunteers as a vampire chew toy? (Leah)
141. What is it with you Clearwaters? Why can’t you leave me alone? (Jacob)
142. Bella is already a daughter to me. A beloved daughter. (Carlisle)
143. I’ve seen vampire venom work miracles, but there are conditions that even venom cannot overcome. Her heart is working too hard now; if it should fail… there won’t be anything for me to do. (Carlisle)
144. The girl looked like she only had hours left, and she had to be in pain, but she was making jokes. So Bella. Trying to ease the tension, make it better for everyone else. (Jacob)
145. So, who’s going to catch me a grizzly bear? (Bella)
146. I’m not here as a donor, Bells. (Jacob)
147. Well, I’m starving, so I’ll bet he is, too. Let’s go for it. My first vampire act. (Bella)
148. Edward stayed, holding Bella’s hand. His face was dead again. He didn’t seem to have the energy to keep up even that little hint of hope he’d had before. They stared into each other’s eyes, but not in a gooey way. It was like they were having a conversation. Kind of reminded me of Sam and Emily. (Jacob)
149. Don’t blame me for this one. Your vampire was just picking snide comments out of my head. (Jacob)
150. You’re scared of Leah, but you’re best buds with the psychopath blonde? (Jacob)
151. She understands that you’re gonna die and she doesn’t care, s’long as she gets her mutant spawn out of the deal. (Jacob)
152. She glared at Edward’s hand like she might take a snap at it. I wished she would. I bet Edward wouldn’t take that sitting down, and I’d love to see Blondie lose a limb. (Jacob)
153. Does this screw my total? Or do we start counting after I’m a vampire? (Bella)
154. Jeez, how did anyone stand living with him? It was really too bad he couldn’t hear Bella’s thoughts. Then he’d annoy the crap out of her, too, and she’d get tired of him. (Jacob)
155. Great, now I was the court jester. (Jacob)
156. I gritted my teeth. She was allowed to kill herself for a monster, but I wasn’t allowed to miss a few nights’ sleep to watch her do it? (Jacob)
157. Despite my best efforts, I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me, so no worries. (Leah)
158. That is easily the freakin’ grossest thing I’ve heard in my life. Yuck. If there was anything in my stomach, it would be coming back. (Leah)
159. Mom dropped him a lot when he was a baby. (Leah)
160. I took the clothes gingerly between my teeth – ugh – and carried them back to the trees. Just in case this was some joke by the blond psychopath and I had a bunch of girls’ stuff here. Bet she’d love to see the look on my human face as I stood there naked, holding a sundress. (Jacob)
161. Edward seemed to be in agreement with my thoughts – we were on the same wavelength so much lately it was crazy. (Jacob)
162. How much blood would it take to keep her going? At some point, would they start trotting in the neighbors? (Jacob)
163. Where’s the flood, mutt? (Rosalie)
164. You know how you drown a blonde, Rosalie? Glue a mirror to the bottom of a pool. (Jacob)
165. I snorted. Vampire mother hen – bizarre. (Jacob)
166. Vampires get headaches? (Jacob)
167. About time. The chainsaw impersonation was getting a little tired. (Rosalie)
168. What’s for breakfast? O negative or AB positive? (Jacob)
169. This was the problem with hanging out with vampires – you got used to them. They started messing up the way you saw the world. They started feeling like friends. (Jacob)
170. Alice wants you, too. She says she’s tired of hanging out in the attic like a bat in the belfry. (Seth)
171. And, just like before, Bella’s face lit up like a kid’s on Christmas morning. Like I’d brought her the greatest gift ever. It was so unfair. (Jacob)
172. Thanks, anyway, Alice, but I don’t think I’d want to eat something Blondie’s spit in. I’d bet my system wouldn’t take too kindly to venom. (Jacob)
173. Enjoy, mongrel. (Rosalie)
174. It had once probably been a big mixing bowl, but she’d bent the bowl back in on itself until it was shaped almost exactly like a dog dish. I had to be impressed with her quick craftsmanship. And her attention to detail. She’d scratched the word Fido into the side. Excellent handwriting. (Jacob)
175. Hey, do you know what you call a blonde with a brain? A golden retriever. (Jacob)
176. Let me guess, someone around here used to cut hair in a salon in Paris? (Jacob)
177. So… um… what’s the, er, date? You know, the due date for the little monster. (Jacob)
178. Why do you want me here? Seth could keep you warm, and he’s probably easier to be around, happy little punk. But when I walk in the door, you smile like I’m your favorite person in the world. (Jacob)
179. It feels… complete when you’re here, Jacob. Like all my family is together. I mean, I guess that’s what it’s like – I’ve never had a big family before now. It’s nice. But it’s just not whole unless you’re here. (Bella)
180. I’ll never be a part of your family, Bella. (Jacob)
181. I’m not a bloodsucker, so maybe I’m missing something, but Charlie seems like kind of a strange choice for her first meal. (Jacob)
182. Of course there were no survivors. Giving birth in the middle of a disease-infested swamp with a medicine man smearing sloth spit across your face to drive out the evil spirits was never the safest method. (Rosalie)
183. Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondie’s head so hard that – with an earsplitting bang – it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the foot of the stairs. (Jacob)
184. You. Got. Food. In. My. Hair. (Rosalie)
185. I’m not going to forget this, dog. (Rosalie)
186. S’not so hard to erase a blonde’s memory. Just blow in her ear. (Jacob)
187. Wouldn’t want our precious parasites taking unnecessary chances. (Leah)
188. I think you make a good Alpha. Not in the same way Sam does, but in your own way. You’re worth following, Jacob. (Leah)
189. Wow, this is going to sound bad. But, honestly, it will be easier to deal with your pain than face mine. (Leah)
190. I know it’s going to be bad for you, Jacob. I understand that – maybe better than you think. I don’t like her, but… she’s your Sam. She’s everything you want and everything you can’t have. (Leah)
191. I wasn’t born a compassionless shrew. I used to be sort of nice, you know. (Leah)
192. What’s wrong with going out and falling in love like a normal person, Leah? Imprinting is just another way of getting your choices taken away from you. (Jacob)
193. I understand why your blond vampire is so cold – in the figurative sense. She’s focused. She’s got her eye on the prize, right? Because you always want the very most what you can never, ever have. (Leah)
194. I’d been planning to take off and get some Z’s, but the chance to ruin Rosalie’s morning seemed too good to pass up. (Jacob)
195. Ew. Someone put the dog out. (Rosalie)
196. I have killed a hundred times more often than you have, you disgusting beast. Don’t forget that. (Rosalie)
197. Someday, Beauty Queen, you’re going to get tired of just threatening me. I’m really looking forward to that. (Jacob)
198. It… the baby likes the sound of your voice. (Edward)
199. As he stared at them, his face was not frightened or angry or burning or any of the other expressions he’d worn since their return. He was marveling with her. (Jacob)
200. You have the most beautiful voice in the universe. Who wouldn’t love it? (Bella)
201. In that moment, I knew that I was alone. All alone. I wanted to kick myself when I realized how much I’d been counting on that loathsome vampire. How stupid – as if you could ever trust a leech! Of course he would betray me in the end. (Jacob)
202. Nice girl who knew cars. Wow. I stared at her face harder, wishing I knew how to make it work. C’mon, Jake – imprint already. (Jacob)
203. I stared at Edward, feeling sort of like my eyes might pop out of their sockets. Underneath that disbelief, I could see right away that this was the critical factor. This was what had changed Edward – that the monster had convinced him of this love. He couldn’t hate what loved Bella. It was probably why he couldn’t hate me, either. There was a big difference, though. I wasn’t killing her. (Jacob)
204. I want your permission to deviate from what we agreed to in our treaty with Ephraim. I want you to grant us an exception. I want your permission to save her life. You know I’ll do it anyway, but I don’t want to break faith with you if there is any way to avoid it. We never intended to go back on our word, and we don’t do it lightly now. I want your understanding, Jacob, because you know exactly why we do this. I want the alliance between our families to survive when this is over. (Edward)
205. Crazy how easy it was, walking through the dark with a vampire right beside me. It didn’t feel unsafe, or even uncomfortable, really. It felt like walking next to anybody. Well, anybody who smelled bad. (Jacob)
206. Rose’ll catch me if I trip over my feet. Which could happen pretty easily, since I can’t see them. (Bella)
207. You stay with me now, Bella! Do you hear me? Stay! You’re not leaving me! Keep your heart beating! (Jacob)
208. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men… But there was nothing there, just me, just him. Working over a corpse. Because that’s all that was left of the girl we both loved. This broken, bled-out, mangled corpse. We couldn’t put Bella together again. (Jacob)
209. Of course it would want blood. What else would you feed the kind of monster that would brutally mutilate its own mother? It might as well have been drinking Bella’s blood. Maybe itwas. (Jacob)
210. Why should I let him get away from what he’d done? Wouldn’t it be more fair – more satisfying – to let him live with nothing, nothing at all? (Jacob)
211. Everything inside me came undone as I stared at the tiny porcelain face of the half-vampire, half-human baby. All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was – my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self – disconnected from me in that second – snip, snip, snip – and floated up into space. I was not left drifting. A new string held me where I was. (Jacob)
212. The gravity of the earth no longer tied me to the place where I stood. It was the baby girl in the blond vampire’s arms that held me here now. Renesmee. (Jacob)
213. Her tiny face was so absolutely perfect that it stunned me. She was even more beautiful than her father. Unbelievable. Impossible. (Bella)
214. I had done it. Against the odds, I had been strong enough to survive Renesmee, to hold on to her until she was strong enough to live without me. (Bella)
215. It was harder not to answer this voice, but I stayed paralyzed. I knew that the pain in his voice now was nothing compared to what it could be. Right now he only feared that I was suffering. (Bella)
216. She’s going to be dazzling. (Alice)
217. Edward didn’t answer, but Alice’s words gave me hope that maybe I didn’t resemble the charcoal briquette I felt like. It seemed as if I must be just a pile of charred bones by now. Every cell in my body had been razed to ash. (Bella)
218. Oh. Of course. Edward wouldn’t feel cold to me. We were the same temperature now. (Bella)
219. Jasper and Emmett were in the front to protect the others, as I had assumed. What I hadn’t grasped immediately was that I was the
danger. (Bella)
220. He smiled the kind of smile that would have stopped my heart if it were still beating. (Bella)
221. Don’t panic, love. You’re just a bit stronger than I am for the moment. (EDward)
222. I was stronger than Edward. I’d made him say ow. (Bella)
223. It was like he’d never kissed me – like this was our first kiss. And, in truth, he’d never kissed me this way before. It almost made me feel guilty. Surely I was in breach of the contract. I shouldn’t be allowed to have this, too. (Bella)
224. You’ve been holding out on me. (Bella)
225. Now it’s your turn to not break me. (Edward)
226. Let’s hunt, Bella. (Edward)
227. You promised I could be there the first time! What if you two run past something reflective? (Alice)
228. I stared at the beautiful woman with the terrifying eyes, looking for pieces of me. There was something there in the shape of her lips – if you looked past the dizzying beauty, it was true that her upper lip was slightly out of balance, a bit too full to match the lower. Finding this familiar little flaw made me feel a tiny bit better. Maybe the rest of me was in there, too. (Bella)
229. I was rather hoping that I’d be able to hear your mind, now that it is more similar to my own. And here I am, as frustrated as ever, wondering what could possibly be going on inside your head. (Edward)
230. I guess my brain will never work right. At least I’m pretty. (Bella)
231. Bella, you have never been merely pretty. (Edward)
232. We have all eternity, and you’re worried about the time it would take to walk to the back door? (Bella)
233. Right. I was the monster now. I had to keep away from scents that might trigger my wild side. From the people that I loved in particular. Even the ones I didn’t really know yet. (Bella)
234. And I was very conscious of my family behind me, watching silently. Mostly silently. Emmett had already chuckled under his breath once. One mistake, and he’d be rolling on the floor. Then the jokes about the world’s only clumsy vampire would start. (Bella)
235. That was quite graceful – even for a vampire. (Edward)
236. It was the first time anyone had ever applied the word graceful to me in my entire life… or, well, existence anyway. (Bella)
237. I’m not laughing at you, Bella. I’m laughing because I am in shock. And I am in shock because I am completely amazed. (Edward)
238. You shouldn’t be able to do any of this. You shouldn’t be so… so rational. You shouldn’t be able to stand here discussing this with me calmly and coolly. And, much more than any of that, you should not have been able to break off mid-hunt with the scent of human blood in the air. Even mature vampires have difficulty with that – we’re always careful of where we hunt so as not to put ourselves in the path of temptation. Bella, you’re behaving like you’re decades rather than days old. (Edward)
239. What wouldn’t I give to be able to see into your mind for just this one moment. (Edward)
240. Oops. I didn’t mean to tackle you like that. Are you okay? (Bella)
241. The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. (Edward)
242. Jacob isn’t suffering. Though I might be willing to change his condition. (Edward)
243. I gotta say it, Bells. You’re a freak show. (Jacob)
244. Wath yourself, mongrel. (Edward)
245. Maybe I’m hoping she’ll get irritated and rip your head off. (Edward)
246. Huh. I can see what everyone’s been going on about. You stink, Jacob. (Bella)
247. Jacob just kept grinning. This made me feel hopeful that things were going to be right between us, the way they hadn’t been for so long now. Maybe now I could truly be his friend, since I disgusted him enough physically that he couldn’t love me the same way as before. Maybe that was all I needed. (Bella)
248. We’ll take care of you, Bella. Don’t worry, we’ll be ready. None of us would risk Renesmee. I think you’ll be surprised at how entirely she’s already wrapped us all around her little fingers. She’ll be perfectly safe, no matter what. (Edward)
249. Did ya get in a couple of good swipes? (Emmett)
250. Just because I understand, it doesn’t mean I won’t throw you out, Jacob. Bella’s doing extraordinarily well. Don’t ruin the moment for her. (Edward)
251. I’ll help him toss you, dog. I owe you a good kick in the gut. (Rosalie)
252. Edward, I don’t want to hurt you, so please let go of me. (Bella)
253. You stupid mutt! How could you! My baby! (Bella)
254. I’ve held her all of one time, and already you think you have some moronic wolfy claim on her? She’s mine. (Bella)
255. How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost your mind? (Bella)
256. You said we belonged in each other’s lives, right? That we were family. You said that was how you and I were supposed to be. So… now we are. It’s what you want. (Jacob)
257. You think you’ll be part of my family as my son-in-law! (Bella)
258. Stop her, Edward. She’ll be unhappy if she hurts him. (Esme)
259. She hasn’t gone for his throat even once. (Carlisle)
260. Run away while you still can. (Bella)
261. You nicknamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster? (Bella)
262. Edward was still apologizing, and I didn’t think that was either fair or appropriate. After all, Edward hadn’t tried to rip Jacob’s head off – Jacob, who wouldn’t even phase to protect himself – and then accidentally broken Seth’s shoulder and collarbone when he jumped in between. Edward hadn’t almost killed his best friend. (Bella)
263. Bella, love, no one is judging you. You’re doing so well. (Edward)
264. I tried to erase the anger from my system entirely, but it was hard, knowing that Jacob was outside with Renesmee right now. Keeping her safe from me, the crazed newborn. (Bella)
265. I mean, at least you didn’t bite me or anything. That would’ve sucked. (Seth)
266. Lucky thing Ness – Renesmee’s not venomous. ‘Cause she bites Jake all the time. (Seth)
267. I wish treating humans were this instantaneously gratifying. (Carlisle)
268. Jacob, I thought, despite myself. Though that yearning was both vanished and defined – and I was vastly relieved that it was – he was still my friend. Someone who knew the real me and accepted her. Even has a monster. (Bella)
269. Thirstiness was way down the list right now. Besides, Renesmee smelled good in a very non-food way. (Bella)
270. Renesmee smiled her brilliant smile, and her memory eyes did not leave Jacob through all the following mess. I tasted a new flavor to the memory – not exactly protective, more possessive – as she watched Jacob. I got the distinct impression that she was glad Seth had put himself in front of my spring. She didn’t want Jacob hurt. He was hers. (Bella)
271. It’s just because he tastes better than the rest of us. (Edward)
272. For a tiny space, I was disappointed. What? No magic visions, no formidable offensive abilities like, oh, shooting lightning bolts from my eyes or something? Nothing helpful or cool at all? (Bella)
273. I know – I’ll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors. (Alice)
274. She has never been set down in her entire life. She’s going to be the most spoiled half-vampire in existence. (Alice)
275. I wasn’t afraid of hitting a tree; the tree would be the only one getting hurt in that scenario. (Bella)
276. You’re giving me a house for my birthday? (Bella)
277. Edward had always thought that he belonged to the world of horror stories. Of course, I’d known that he was dead wrong. It was obvious that he belonged here. In a fairy tale. And now I was in the story with him. (Bella)
278. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn’t giving in. (Bella)
279. We’re going to tell Alice that I ran right to the clothes. We’re going to tell her I spent hours in there playing dress-up. We’re going to lie. (Bella)
280. He had the most beautiful, perfect body in the world and I had him all to myself, and it didn’t feel like I was every going to find a point where I would think, Now I’ve had enough for one day. I was always going to want more. And the day was never going to end. So, in such a situation, how did we ever stop? It didn’t bother me at all that I had no answer. (Bella)
281. So it’s still standing? I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt? (Emmett)
282. The more time he spends here, the less chance there is that we’ll ever get the smell out. (Rosalie)
283. I’m sure you’ll ace your classes… apparently there’s nothing interesting for you to do at night besides study. (Emmett)
284. Look at you! You need me to show you how to use your closet. (Alice)
285. That’s just a theory, mongrel. You think we should test it out on Charlie? Did you consider the physical pain you’re putting Bella through, even if she can resist? Or the emotional pain if she doesn’t? I suppose what happens to Bella no longer concerns you! (Edward)
286. He’s brave. Brave as you are. Didn’t pass out or throw up or anything. I gotta say, I was impressed. You should’ve seen his face when I started taking my clothes off, though. Priceless. (Jacob)
287. You have thirty seconds to tell me every single word before I give Renesmee to Rosalie and rip your miserable head off. Seth won’t be able to stop me this time. (Bella)
288. Jeez, Bells. You didn’t used to be so melodramatic. Is that a vampire thing? (Jacob)
289. After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, ‘She wishes she was that cool!’ (Jacob)
290. Bella, things are different with us now, but you’ll always be my best friend, and I’ll always love you. But I’ll love you the right way now. There’s finally a balance. We both have people we can’t live without. (Jacob)
291. If I don’t kill Charlie tonight, I’ll consider forgiving you for this. (Bella)
292. I’m actually holding her so that my hands aren’t free to kill you, Jacob. (Bella)
293. No, I don’t care if you bite Jacob. That’s fine. (Edward)
294. As far as Charlie knows, you’re the most repulsive monster of us all. (Edward)
295. You gonna make me a grandpa so young? (Charlie)
296. ‘Bout time somebody scored around here. (Emmett)
297. Sturdy if good. She’ll need to be tough, surrounded by all this craziness. Prettiest baby I ever saw, including you, kid. Sorry, but it’s true. (Charlie)
298. I’m not even sure she’s really a vampire, let alone a newborn. She’s too tame. (Emmett)
299. It’s a little dense, don’t you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house? (Edward)
300. Emmett, how do you feel about a little bet? (Bella)
301. You. Me. Arm-wrestling. Dining room table. Now. (Bella)
302. You gonna back down so easy, little sister? Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn’t have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed? (Emmett)
303. Tell me you didn’t let go a bit on your first run, dog. (Edward)
304. Freaky Bella. (Jacob)
305. What an amazing creature she is. (Edward)
306. He was both dazzling and dazzled. (Bella)
307. I’m not my pack’s nanny. (Jacob)
308. Jacob was more a child than Renesmee sometimes. (Bella)
309. When I returned, I would take Jacob’s side. He should come with us. He had as big a stake in this as any of us – his entire life was at stake, just like mine. (Bella)
310. The Amazon offered a change from our normal quarry. Jaguars and panthers, for example. Emmett had a whim to wrestle with an anaconda. (Bella)
311. My first illogical thought was that Alice was playing some joke on us. Because there was no way that Alice could have dropped the vase by accident. I could have darted across the room to catch the vase in plenty of time myself, if I hadn’t assumed she would get it. And how would it fall through her fingers in the first place? Her perfectly sure fingers… I had never seen a vampire drop anything by accident.
Ever. (Bella)
312. I felt not like stone but ice. For the first time since I’d been reborn a vampire, I felt cold. (Bella)
313. After all, the Cullens were in league with werewolves. From Irina’s point of view, maybe this meant nothing was beyond us… (Bella)
314. Was this the limit, then? I’d had more happiness than most people ever experienced. Was there some natural law that demanded equal shares of happiness and misery in the world? Was my joy overthrowing the balance? (Bella)
315. It’s over. We’ve all been sentenced to die. (Bella)
316. Emmett cussed loud enough that Jacob lurched to his feet with a growl. In the yard, his growl was echoed by his pack. My family was already a blur of action. (Bella)
317. Don’t get your family slaughtered for pride. (Carlisle)
318. I’m not going down without a fight. (Emmett)
319. We would fight, they would fight, and we would all die. (Bella)
320. I was the only person in the world who could lie to Edward. Was that what Alice wanted from me? Her last request? (Bella)
321. The whole imprinted-werewolf-gives-the-object-of-his-imprinting-whatever-she-wants thing was getting old pretty fast. (Bella)
322. Did vampires ever do anything absentmindedly? (Bella)
323. Edward, will you teach me how to fight? (Bella)
324. He froze, and then his eyes swept over me with a deep significance, like he was looking at me for the first or last time. (Bella)
325. Would you leave me unable to defend myself? (Bella)
326. I will try to teach you what I can, but please don’t make me think about you sacrificing yourself as a diversion… (Edward)
327. I have to learn everything. As much as you can possibly cram into my head in the next month. (Bella)
328. For Alice. It’s the only thanks I can give her now for the last fifty years. (Edward)
329. Edward, no matter how many friends you gather, we can’t help you win. We can only die with you. (Tanya)
330. A very talented family. A mind reader for a father, a shield for a mother, and then whatever magic this extraordinary child has bewitched us with. (Eleazar)
331. Ironic. Aro sent me all over the world searching for such anomalies, and you simply stumble across it by accident and don’t even realize what you have. (Eleazar)
332. Anyone who tries to touch me drops like a human that’s been Tasered. It only downs him for a second, but that’s long enough. (Kate)
334. Abstaining from human blood makes us more civilized – lets us form true bonds of love. (Eleazar)
335. From what I saw of his thoughts last spring, Aro’s never wanted anything more than he wants Alice. (Edward)
336. If Aro wanted me to do something – anything – all he had to do was threaten Edward and I would comply. And vice versa. (Bella)
337. Of course, Jacob got more surly with each new addition. He kept his distance when he could, and when he couldn’t he grumbled to Renesmee that someone was going to have to provide an index if anyone expected him to keep all the new bloodsuckers’ names straight. (Bella)
338. Looking at you that way, analyzing you as a target. Seeing all the ways I can kill you… It just makes it too real for me. (Edward)
339. Emmett was more than willing to help, though his teaching felt to me a lot like revenge for all the lost arm-wrestling matches. If I could still bruise, I would have been purple from head to toe. (Bella)
340. Now my hands were free, and if Kate wanted to keep her hands attached to her wrists, she’d better keep her distance. (Bella)
341. They say you can put a vampire flat on his back. (Garrett)
342. Well, well, Carlisle. You have been naughty, haven’t you? (Stefan)
343. There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. (Bella)
344. Edward had gotten around to revealing my after car; as he’d suspected, I had not been capable of showing the appropriate enthusiasm. Sure, it was pretty and fast, but I liked to run. (Bella)
345. Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular. (Jacob)
346. She looks like… Well, she looks like a freaking supermodel, that’s what she looks like. Rocking body, pale as a sheet, dark brown hair almost to her waist, needs a good night’s sleep – any of this sound familiar? (Max)
347. I’m not really a fan of drugs, and neither is my husband. Just say no and all that. (Bella)
348. So this man knew Jasper, not Alice. Knew him, and seemed afraid of him, too. (Bella)
349. The only reason Renesmee would need a forger was if she was running. And the only reason Renesmee would be running was if we had lost. (Bella)
350. I heard the music before I was out of the car. Edward hadn’t touched his piano since the night Alice left. Now, as I shut the car door, I heard the song morph through a bridge and change into my lullaby. Edward was welcoming me home. (Bella)
351. You could always count on werewolves to be buzzed about a coming fight, no matter how suicidal. (Bella)
352. I gave you life. You’re wasting it. (Amun)
353. No matter the outcome, word will spread. It’s time our world saw the Volturi for what they’ve become. They’ll never fall if everyone believes this nonsense about them protecting our way of life. (Stefan)
354. Apparently, I’m a hot commodity. It appears I have to win the right to be free. (Benjamin)
355. We stand with Carlisle. And we fight with him. (Tanya)
356. The packs will fight with the Cullens. We’re not afraid of vampires. (Jacob)
357. Stupid leeches. Think they’re so superior. (Jacob)
358. They’ll be shocked when the infants save their superior lives, won’t they? (Edward)
359. What if your trust in me is the reason that we fail? (Bella)
360. For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned… (Bella)
370. Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. (Bella)
371. If any of the wolves stood with us, the Volturi would be sure to search out the rest. They had gambled their entire species on this stand. And we were going to lose. (Bella)
372. Truly, Carlisle, nothing would please me more than to preserve your life today. (Aro)
373. The shield blew out from me in a bubble of sheer energy, a mushroom cloud of liquid steel. It pulsed like a living thing – I could feel it, from the apex to the edges. (Bella)
374. I never dreamed of the existence of such a thing in all my centuries. What an addition to our histories. (Aro)
375. Interesting company you keep. (Demitri)
376. You look good. Immortality suits you. (Felix)
377. They’re committed to protecting human life, Aro. That makes them able to coexist with us, but hardly with you. Unless you’re rethinking your lifestyle. (Edward)
378. So much to discuss. So much to decide. If you and your furry protector will excuse me, my dear Cullens, I must confer with my brothers. (Aro)
379. The Children of the Moon have been our bitter enemies from the dawn of time. We have hunted them to near extinction in Europe and Asia. Yet Carlisle encourages a familiar relationship with this enormous infestation – no doubt in an attempt to overthrow us. The better to protect his warped lifestyle. (Caius)
380. You breed mutants here. (Caius)
381. So the Cullens sided with the shape-shifters against our own kind – against the friend of a friend, even. (Casius)
382. It was one thing to know that death was coming with fierce, unstoppable speed; it was another thing to watch it happen. (Bella)
383. I have witnessed the bonds within this family – I say family and not coven. These strange golden-eyed ones deny their very natures. But in return have they found something worth even more, perhaps, than mere gratification of desire? (Garrett)
384. I came to witness. I stay to fight. (Garrett)
385. Edward’s and Jacob’s faces were almost identical masks of horror, despite the fact that one of them was an animal. (Bella)
386. I love you, too, Jake. You’ll always be my best man. (Bella)
387. Goodbye, Jacob, my brother… my son. (Edward)
388. Edward took my hand. He knew that he was included. When I said my fate, there was no question that I meant the two of us. We were just halves of the whole. (Bella)
389. If we live through this, I’ll follow you anywhere, woman. (Garrett)
390. His face glowed with an expression of triumph that I didn’t understand – it was the expression an angel of destruction might wear while the world burned. Beautiful and terrifying. (Bella)
391. Aro, would you ask Jane to stop attacking my wife? (Edward)
392. I get to stay with you? (Renesmee)
393. Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it. (Bella)
394. I couldn’t speak anymore. I lifted my head and kissed him with a passion that might possibly set the forest on fire. I wouldn’t have noticed. (Bella)
395. They’ve been seriously shaken; their confidence is shattered. But, yet, I’m sure they’ll recover from the blow someday. And then… I imagine they’ll try to pick us off separately. (Edward)
396. Try to find Alistair and tell him what happened. I’d hate to think of him hiding under a rock for the next decade. (Carlisle)
397. Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. (Emmett)
398. So there are real werewolves? With the full moon and silver bullets and all that? (Bella)
399. Real. Does that make me imaginary? (Jacob)
400. This was about my acting skills? (Bella)
401. I missed you, too, Bella. So forgive me, and try to be satisfied with being the superhero of the day. (Alice)
402. I guess things are going to be kind of boring now, aren’t they? (Jacob)
403. You are fairly ideal in every way. (Bella)
404. But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever. (Bella)
405. A night for celebrations. (Edward)
406. Now you know. No one’s ever loved anyone as much as I love you. (Bella)

Eclipse

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"'Bella?' Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine— like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us."

Release Date: August 2007
Summary: The Cullens are back in this sequel to New Moon, and it soon becomes painfully apparent that the vampire world will forever be apart of Bella's.

When a sudden spike in violent murders paralyzes nearby Seattle, Bella and the Cullens immediately realize the true nature of the crimes: another coven of vampires-- a very large coven, measuring by the number of deaths-- has once again invaded Washington. Could they be somehow related to the smaller coven that had targeted Bella two years previously?

This question is answered when the attacks move closer to home, and Bella returns to her room one night to discover that someone had torn it apart in search of her. What's more disturbing, however, is that Alice could not see it coming-- meaning that whoever was behind these murders, whoever was behind the raid of Bella's house, knew about the Cullens' psychic gifts, and worse, knew how to evade them.

In the midst of this terrifying mystery, Bella is also caught in the middle of an ancient war between vampires and werewolves. Her dedication to Jacob and her love for Edward clash as the two compete for her affection. Bella struggles to remain neutral, to love both her vampire family and werewolf friends equally, but the two parties make it nearly impossible, resulting in a final battle that changes the entire course of the story.

As the third installment in the Twilight saga, Eclipse brings the series to an exhilarating cresendo in which Bella is forced to face the realities of the vampire/werewolf feud while simultaneously fighting to escape the seemingly unstoppable wrath of an elusive army of vampires-- an army whose ultimate target is Bella. The daunting question remains: why?
Chapter One: Read the first chapter of Eclipse right here!
Twilight Trivia: What does Meyer think is the most pivotal plot development in Eclipse? Well, as she explains in her FAQ section, "In both Twilight and New Moon, Bella commits to becoming a vampire without once really examining what price she'll pay. In Eclipse, Bella fully comprehends that price. And then she chooses to pay it. Every aspect of the novel revolves around this point, every back story, every relationship, every moment of action."

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE Cast List

Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen
Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black

Cullen Family
Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen
Peter Facinelli as Dr. Carlisle
Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen
Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen
Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale
Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale

Wolf Pack
Chaske Spencer as Sam Uley
Bronson Pelletier as Jared
Alex Meraz as Paul
Kiowa Gordon as Embry Call
Tyson Houseman as Quil Ateara

Other Quileutes
Gil Birmingham as Billy Black
Tinsel Korey as Emily

Nomad Vampires
Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria

Volturi
Cameron Bright as Alec
Charlie Bewley as Demetri
Daniel Cudmore as Felix
Dakota Fanning as Jane

Additional Returning Cast Members
Billy Burke as Charlie Swan
Sarah Clarke as Renee Dwyer
Anna Kendrick as Jessica
Michael Welch as Mike
Christian Serratos as Angela
Justin Chon as Eric

New Cast Members
Xavier Samuel as Riley

Catalina Sandino Moreno as Maria

Jack Huston as Royce King

Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater

BooBoo Stewart as Seth Clearwater

Jodelle Ferland as Bree