I’ve never had a boyfriend or anything close. I didn’t go out much.

I was raised to abide by traffic laws. Besides, if you turn us into a Volvo pretzel around a tree trunk, you can probably just walk away.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

It was a colossal tribute to his face that it kept my eyes away from his body.

I do have some trouble with incoherency when I’m around him.

The vampire who wanted to be good — who ran around saving people’s lives so he wouldn’t be a monster…

What are you asking? My permission?

I have been tortured. Alice painted my toenails. - Bella Swan

So you are trying to irritate me to death? Since Tyler’s van didn’t do the job?

On the one hand, I loved the tide pools. They had fascinated me since I was a child; they were one of the only things I ever looked forward to when I had to come to Forks. On the other hand, I’d also fallen into them a lot. Not a big deal when you’re seven and with your dad. It reminded me of Edward’s request — that I not fall into the ocean.