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… Continue

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… Continue

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…… Continue

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… Continue