I'm really glad Edward didn't kill you. Everything's so much more fun with you around." — Emmett Cullen

Nice girl who knew cars. Wow. I stared at her face harder, wishing I knew how to make it work. C’mon, Jake – imprint already.

I'd rather die than be with anyone but you.

After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward’s eyes.

no two writers go about things in exactly the same way (intro)