The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.

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

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

non-reality was black, and it didn't hurt so much.

I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward's furious roar echoed distantly in the back of my head. His name burst through all the walls I'd built to contain it. Edward, Edward, Edward. I was going to die. It shouldn't matter if I thought of him now. Edward, I love you.

I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore

I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.