“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.”

Bella, there’s a part of you that loves me.

What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt?

Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella’s life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him.

You can’t run with vampires. Cuz they’re fast. Yea? well, we’re faster.

I wondered how long it could last. Maybe someday, years from now.If the pain would decrease to the point where I could bear it. I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life.

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.

I want to be a monster too.

Did you know, you’re sort of beautiful?’ ‘You hit your head pretty hard, didn’t you?

It’s the strange world.’ ‘The strangest.

Too young,too young,she chanted to herself. Wrong,of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver’s license,she was right.

There’s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

You are the noblest, purest creature I’ve ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you, he whispered.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it’s better, and in a lot of ways it’s worse. That’s life, right?

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I’m doing. I tell them I’m doing family.

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

I’m lucky that I have my family, I’m lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you’ll be able to take care of everyone else even better.