Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.

Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face!

I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of the problems.... Edward Cullen Twilight, Chapter 5

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.