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

As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire.

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

Bella, would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.