Kryptonite doesn’t bother me, either.

What kind of an idiotic question is that?

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?” Emmett howled with laughter.

Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.