You’re not a magnet for accidents — that’s not a broad enough classification. You are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius, it will invariably find you.

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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

It’s wrong. It’s not safe. I’m dangerous, Bella — please, grasp that.

I promise… I swear not to hurt you.

It used to be nearly impossible to escape her constant, ridiculous daydreams. I’d wished, at the time, that I could explain to her exactly what would have happened if my lips, and the teeth behind them, had gotten anywhere near her. That would have silenced those annoying fantasies.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

Can you walk, or do you want me to carry you again?

I was distracted all weekend, worrying about you.

At the time, all I could think was, ‘Not her.’

Newton’s getting on my nerves.

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