I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling—it was pulling myself up a cliff-face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength.

There really is something irresistible about a lost cause.

love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

You're not like anyone I've ever known. You fascinate me.

Please don't run away. And, um, I'd rather you didn't kick me again either.

For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward’s eyes.