Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Well… don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog.

Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.

I don’t care about anything but keeping her alive. If it’s a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants. She can have puppies, if that’s what it takes.

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options." -Bella