“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.”

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.

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.

Yeah, it’s an off day when I don’t get somebody telling me how edible I smell. – Bella Swan.

Driving at the speed limit–hideous thought.

I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Fans aren’t just fans… they’re part of my family.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.