If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Jacob's little smirk became a full-blown grin, and I knew he was picturing Charlie showing up to arrest him. This grin was too bitter, too full of mocking to satisfy me. This wasn't the smile I'd been waiting to see.

Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?

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

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

"You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in a room affect me. I live every day in a climate of emotion. For the first century of my life, I lived in a world of bloodthirsty vengeance. Hate was my constant companion." - Jasper Hale