“It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.”

I miss you when you’re not there. When you’re happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You’re family. I love you, but I’m not in love with you.

Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way. -The Host

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn’t be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.

Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm – into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

Sometimes you have to learn to love what’s good for you.

Something I’ve never seen in all my lives. I’m staring at hope.

No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot.

And then I saw the way he looked at her, like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.

He’s got to let go of you sometime.

It was the first time I’d ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

You can’t trust a vampire, trust me.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

He’s like a drug for you, Bella.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

Strange world isn’t it?

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, in every war they kill you in a new way.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.