Stephenie Meyer Quotes

“You provided us with a common enemy. You allied us.”

“Do you think either of them would give up if you died? They’d still fight, we all would. You can’t change anything, so just be good, okay?”

“Angela’s easy human dramas were oddly reassuring. It was nice to know that life was normal somewhere.”

“He’s like a drug for you, Bella… I see 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.”

“You have the choice that I didn’t have, and you’re choosing wrong.”

“I did know his condition. Edward promised that he would change me himself whenever I wanted… just as long as I married him first.”

“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.”

“Think about it Bella… you’ve kissed just one person – who isn’t really a person – in your whole life… How do you know that’s what you want.”

“The jealousy… it has to be eating at you. You can’t be as sure of yourself as you seem. Unless you have no emotions at all.”

“And then quite distinctly I felt the splintering along the fissure line in my heart as the smaller part wrenched itself away from the whole.”

“Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn’t have a happy ending – but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.”

“Someone like me shouldn’t be human. Someone with my luck ought to be little less helpless.”

“I think you were just worried that if you really forced her to choose, she might not choose you.”

“I was ready to join [Edward’s] family. The fear and guilt and anguish I was feeling now had taught me that much… The next time something came at us, I would be ready. An asset, not a liability.”

“It was against the rules for normal people-human people like me and Charlie- to know about the clandestine world full of myths and monsters that existed secretly around us.”

“I think it’s something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart-not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...”

“What about Jacob? What was I going to do about him? My former best friend who was now...what? My enemy?”

“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...”

“Time had not made me immune to the perfection of his face, and I was sure that I would never take any aspect of him for granted.”

“They won’t be human experiences afterward. You don’t get a second chance at humanity, Bella.”

“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”

“You are my life now.”

“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.”

“Will you be?” I asked, suddenly anxious. “Will you really be here?” “As long as you want me,” he assured me. “I’ll always want you,” I warned him. “Forever.”

“I hear voices in my mind and you’re worried that you’re the freak,” he laughed.”

“I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.”

“Do I dazzle you?”

“He called you pretty,” he finally continued, his frown deepening. “That’s practically an insult, the way you look right now. You’re much more than beautiful.”

“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?”

“You really should stay away from me.”

“Don’t be self-conscious,” he whispered in my ear. “If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it.”

“What if I’m not a superhero. What if I’m the bad guy?”

“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 potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”

“There are millions of us, all working together in perfect harmony toward our goal.”

“Humans were brutish and ungovernable. They had killed one another so frequently that murder had been an accepted part of life.”

“Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. Were the souls the exception to that rule? Could they have the light without the darkness of the world?”

“My heart faltered and then beat unevenly, and I wanted to laugh at myself. Did it matter that [Jared] was beautiful, that I loved him, when he was going to kill me?”

“It’s a big universe, and there’s a lot of company out there.”

“How can I not trust another human completely? We’re family—both part of the brotherhood of extinction.”

“My reaction was instantaneous and unthinking. I skittered to one side of the tunnel, sweeping Jamie along with one arm so that I was between him and whatever was coming for me.”

“Her name is Wanda, not it.”

“Laughter was like a fresh breeze—it cleaned its way through the body, making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer?”

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

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

“I can feel what you’re feeling now — and you are worth it.”

“I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.”

“That’s the beautiful thing about being human,” he told me. “Things change.”

“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.”

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

“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?” “That’s right,” I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word. He shook his head. “You’re incredible.”

“You’re intoxicated by my very presence.”

“The right thing isn’t always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.”

“Your number was up the first time I met you.”

“Twilight, again,” he murmured. “Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”

“Distract me, please”

“That’s my point. Body and soul. Two different things, in my case.”

“How does going to one of those other planets help you? You’ll still be a parasite, [Wanda].”

“People touched my cheeks often, or put their fingers under my chin, holding my face up to see it better. I was frequently patted on my head (which was in easy reach, since I was shorter than everyone but the children).”

“Anger flashed through me, hot and wild. In eight full lives, I’d never had an emotion touch me with such force.”

“How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how much fate? Love simply is where it is.”

“Perhaps you should open your eyes and look around for [love] specifically. It might do you a lot of good.”

“The mysterious bond of mother and child was not a mystery to me any longer. There was no bond greater than one that required your life for another’s.”

“The souls were wrong to be here. My humans deserved their world. I could not give it back to them, but I could give them this.”

“I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful.”

“Look, I’m human. It’s hard to be fair sometimes. We don’t always feel the right thing, do the right thing.”

“I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow—a broken heart. I’d always thought of it as a hyperbole. I wasn’t expecting the pain in my chest.”

“I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.”

“Humans were deceitful, treacherous creatures. I couldn’t anticipate their darker agendas when such things were unthinkable to my species.”

“Were twenty-nine rattlesnakes afraid of a lone field mouse?”

“My first language had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty—because without the existence of an opposite, the concept had no meaning.”

“Because he was a soul, by nature he was all things good: compassionate, patient, honest, virtuous, and full of love.”

“You never know how much time you’ll have.”