“I’d rather know what you’re thinking – even if what you’re thinking is insane.”

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?

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

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

Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I’d known.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

I’m not from a particularly sci-fi background. I’m not anti sci-fi at all, but I’ve never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.

The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.

All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.

We didn’t know it was simpler, did we? Those days of sunburnt youth and carefree adventure. Knowing that indestructible optimism would waver with experience – would I have gripped it a little tighter? Held on a little longer?

He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.

The leaves know when to let go – if only I had the same instinct.