He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.

The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

Of course, I still saw Edward at school, because there wasn't anything Charlie [her dad] could do about that. And then, Edward spent almost every night in my room, too, but Charlie wasn't precisely aware of that. Edward's ability to climb easily and silently through my second-story window was almost as useful as his ability to read Charlie's mind.

I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.