It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

I watched her, waiting. She smiled. Her lips curved up and the edges, and her chocolate eyes warmed. I’d just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling.

There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan

You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn’t want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.