Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.

Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.

Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together." I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.

Today is the first and last day of forever.

I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.