Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find.

My heart hasn't beat in almost ninety years but this was different it was like my heart was gone like I was hallow like I'd left everything here with you.

I struggled to find the words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them. When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been. My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.

The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale.

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.

Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time?