It’s the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way… the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?

I acted as a lookout, for lack of a better word, for my family. To protect us. If anyone ever grew suspicious, I could give us early warning and an easy retreat. It happened occasionally – some human with an active imagination would see us in the characters of a book or a movie. Usually they got it wrong, but it was better to move on somewhere new than to risk scrutiny. Very, very rarely someone would guess right. We didn’t give them a chance to test their hypothesis. We simply disappeared, to become no more than a frightening memory…
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

Bella, it’s not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant.

I had things ordered the way I liked them now. Why should I let some aggravating and delicious nobody ruin that?

Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

I can’t be sure, of course, but I’d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke.

I was wrong — you’re much more observant than I gave you credit for.

So you’re worried about the trouble it might cause me — if you don’t come home?

As I sped back to Forks doing ninety, I wasn’t sure where I was going. To say goodbye to my father? Or to embrace the monster inside me? The road flew away beneath my tires.

Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

I saved your life – I don’t owe you anything.

But humans rarely walked too close. Their instincts told them what their conscious minds would never understand: we were dangerous.

Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun