Stephenie Meyer Quotes

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak,” he laughed.

And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van - there was no other conclusion I could come to.

Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.

Emmett thought about that for a moment. 'You really... love her?' 'I can't even describe it, Emmett. All of a sudden, this girl's the whole world to me. I don't see the point of the rest of the world without her anymore

Dear Jacob, I win. Sincerely, Edward

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

“Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk,” he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest. “Drunk?” I objected. “You're intoxicated by my very presence.” He was grinning that playful smirk again.

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.

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth

Go jump off a cliff, Leah.

In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days." I flushed and turned my eyes straight ahead, looking after the dark shadow that I could no longer see. I could imagine what he was hearing in Alice's thoughts now. Near-drowings, stalking vampires, werewolf friends . . . "Hm," Edward said curtly, and the casual tone of his voice was gone.

I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.

If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.

Inspiration in desperation.

Hate is a passionate emotion.

Don’t be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So… try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?

Love, life, meaning...over.

Who are you and what have you done with my brother?

And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

Good or Bad? Good. That's what I thought

I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.

You…made…me…faint,” I accused him dizzily. “What am I going to do with you?” he groaned in exasperation. “Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!” I laughed weakly, letting his arms support me while my head spun. “So much for being good at everything,” he sighed. “That's the problem.” I was still dizzy. “You're too good. Far, far too good.

Of course, then you nearly crushed to death in front of my eyes. Later I thought of a perfectly good excuse for why I acted at that moment - because if I hadn't saved you, if your blood had been spilled there in front of me, I don't think I could have stopped myself from exposing us for what we are. But I only thought of that excuse later. At the time, all I could think was, 'Not her.

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen

Edward,' she mumbled softly. She was dreaming of me. Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to. 'Stay,' she sighed. 'Don't go. Please... don't go

Love is simply where it is.

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many people, in the abstract, would...let's say Paige....how many people would she sacrifice to keep Andy alive? The answer wouldn't make any sense if you were looking at the whole of humanity as equals.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said.

You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose.

I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.

I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." —Bella Swan

Despite my best efforts I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me so no worries.

I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up?

But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever - Bella Cullen

After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.

She was thinking what I think she was thinking, wasn't she?

The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface.

There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head.