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

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

Forever, he vowed, still a little staggered.That’s all I’m asking for, I said.

I’m not like a car you can fix up. I’m never gonna run right.

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

Try not to trip. We don’t have time for a concussion today.

Jacob’s little smirk became a full-blown grin, and I knew he was picturing Charlie showing up to arrest him. This grin was too bitter, too full of mocking to satisfy me. This wasn’t the smile I’d been waiting to see.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

If we could bottle your luck, we’d have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.

Maybe you’ll get lucky. I said bleakly, lurching on my feet. Maybe I’ll get hit by a truck on my way back.

It’s not the end. It’s the beginning.

It was a strange combination to absorb – the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.

Jasper chuckled, shaking his head. You truly are one frightening little monster.

I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward’s grimace to Jacob’s sneer.

Your hair looks like a haystack but I like it.

When I told you I didn’t want you, it was the blackest kind of blasphemy.

So what are you going to tell her? A little help? I pleaded. What does she want to know? He shook his head, grinning wickedly. That’s not fair. No, you not sharing what you know-now that’s not fair.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

One’s desire, not ability, determines success.