He's like a drug for you, Bella.

You don’t have anything like this. For crying out loud, you only own one skirt!

Humans were always surprising me.

No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud.

I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.