I thought I'd explained it clearly before. Bella, I can't live in a world where you don't exist.

I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

I almost took the door off the car

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

no one had to tell me anything. I know what I am

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