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

Don't worry?! You sliced your hand open!

They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.

Now, we'll have to hang out here until we're sure Jared's really gone and can't catch us." He grinned conspiratorially. "Then we'll have some fun!" I remembered that his idea of fun was usually along the lines of an armed standoff.

I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up?

But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.