It would be more… prudent for you not to be my friend. But I’m tired of trying to stay away from you, Bella.

I’m absolutely ordinary — well, except for bad things like all the near-death experiences and being so clumsy that I’m almost disabled.

People are predictable. But you… you never do what I expect. You always take me by surprise.

Don’t you see, Bella? It’s one thing for me to make myself miserable, but a wholly other thing for you to be so involved.

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

His fingers were ice-cold, like he’d been holding them in a snowdrift before class. But that wasn’t why I jerked my hand away so quickly. When he touched me, it stung my hand as if an electric current had passed through us.

I don’t want to be a monster.

He knows I’ve been meaning to do the laundry. Maybe he’ll think I fell in the washer.

I’m the world’s best predator, aren’t I? Everything about me invites you in — my voice, my face, even my smell. As if I need any of that!

This hostage stuff is fun! -Alice Cullen