So, is the new one afraid of us yet?
Emmett Cullen, Midnight Sun

I knew what had to happen now. The girl would have to come sit beside me, and I would have to kill her.

-Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

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 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 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

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

The monster in my head smiled in anticipation.

Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

It was sophistry to think that by saving the nineteen humans in this room with effort and patience, I would be less a monster when I killed this innocent girl.

Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

Jessica and her classmates had no idea how lucky they were that none of them particularly appealed to me.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun