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.

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.

Enjoying the bouquet while resisting the wine." -Edward

My mother is part albino." Bella Swan

I wondered how long it could last. Maybe someday, years from now.If the pain would decrease to the point where I could bear it.I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life.

And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.