Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.

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

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

Isabella Swan?” He looked up at me through his impossibly long lashes, his golden eyes soft but, somehow, still scorching. “I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever. Will you marry me?” There were many things I wanted to say, some of them not nice at all, and others more disgustingly gooey and romantic than he probably dreamed I was capable of. Rather than embarrass myself with either, I whispered, “Yes.” “Thank you,” he said simply. He took my left hand and kissed each of my fingertips before he kissed the ring that was now mine.

i did know this- every second i spent with her was only going to add to the pain i would have suffer later

It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.

I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.