My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

It was not going to be the end of the world. Just the end of the Cullens. The end of Edward, the end of me. I preferred it that way – the last part anyway. I would not live without Edward again; if he was leaving this world, then I would be right behind him.

Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done.

It's too easy to be myself with you.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.