Not only are you saving my hands from permanent injury, you also just spared me two long hours of a plot-less, badly dubbed martial arts film.

Angela Weber, Eclipse

Wow, you’re green, Bella.

No one could be still like Edward. He closed his eyes and became as immobile as stone, a carving under my hand.

Hating her, hating how she made me feel – it helped a little.

Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

I feel very safe with you.

I couldn’t allow him to have this level of influence over me. It was pathetic. More than pathetic, it was unhealthy.

I turned slowly, unwillingly. I didn’t want to feel what I knew I would feel when I looked at his too-perfect face.

It was a relief, that one small entry, the one myth among hundreds that claimed the existence of good vampires.

We’re usually very good at what we do. Sometimes we make mistakes. Me, for example, allowing myself to be alone with you.

I looked down, afraid of the persuasive power of his eyes. I refused to be convinced to fear him, no matter how real the danger might be. It doesn’t matter, I repeated in my head.