Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent.

I miss you already I don’t need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm.

Because when I thought of him, of his voice, his hypnotic eyes, the magnetic force of his personality, I wanted nothing more than to be with him right now.

If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.

You’re still waiting for the running and the screaming, aren’t you?

Your number was up the first time I met you.