I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

Vampires are people too!

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.