One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This," he said, taking my face in his hands. "You. That's what I'm keeping. You'll always be my Bella, you'll just be a little more durable.

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

I can feel what you’re feeling now — and you are worth it.

You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.

Forever," he vowed, still a little staggered. "That's all I'm asking for," I said.