When you can live forever what do you live for?

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

It Will Be As If I Never Existed

There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head.

Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers.

The way everyone looked at me made me uncomfortable. Even Edward. It was like I had grown a hundred feet during the course of the morning. I tried to ignore the impressed looks, mostly keeping my eyes on Nessie’s sleeping face and Jacob’s unchanged expression. I would always be just Bella to him, and that was a relief. Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.747

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?