I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.

Carlisle: "I've seen vampire venom work miracles, but there are conditions that even venom cannot overcome."

Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin.

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

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!

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part – you had already altered me so completely.