but this was no dream. unlike the nightmare, i wasn't running for my life; i was racing to save something infinitely more precious. -Bella

the voice i'd walk through a fire for -- or less dramatically, slosh every day through the cold and endless rain for. -Bella

Edward -- still smiling so beautifully that my heart felt like it was going to swell up and burst through my chest. -Bella

Edward stood beside me, casting no reflection, excruciatingly lovely and forever seventeen. 

i was eighteen and Edward would never be. -Bella

i spotted Edward leaning motionlessly against his silver Volvo, like a marble tribute to some forgotten pagan god of beauty. -Bella

evan half a year with him (Edward), i still couldn't believe that i deserved this degree of good fortune. -Bella

Alice: you're only a senior once. might as well document the experience. 

Bella: how many times have you been a senior?

Alice: that's different.

Edward's look wasn't something that could be achieved through imitation. -Bella 

Edward had a lot of money. money meant next to nothing to Edward or the rest of the Cullens. 

you (Edward) want a nice stereo? drive your own car. -Bella

Romeo was one of my favorite fictional characters. until i'd met Edward, i sort of had a thing for him. -Bella 

i wasn't going to live without you (Bella). -Edward

no matter what might ever happen to me, you (Edward) are not allowed to hurt yourself. 

the idea of Edward ceasing to exist even if i were dead, was impossibly painful. -Bella

he (Emmette) was in may ways the big brother i ever wanted... only much, much more terrifying. -Bella

i have a question. if i develop this film, will you (Edward) show up in the picture? -Bella

don't do anything funny while i'm gone. -Emmette

like everything in my life, i just had to decide what to do with what i was given. -Carlisle

the only kind of heaven i could appreciate would have to include Edward. -Bella

i looked at Edward. sick as he was, he was still beautiful. there was something pure and good about his face. the kind of face i would have wanted my son to have. -Carlisle

i've never been sorry that i saved Edward. -Carlisle

i'd rather die than be with anyone but you (Edward). -Bella

where you (Edward)  are is the right place for me. -Bella

you're (Edward) the very best part of my life. -Bella

you (Edward) can have my soul. i don't want it without you -- it's yours already! -Bella

Bella: you... don't... want... me?

Edward: no.

you're no good for me, Bella. -Edward

it will be as if i'd never existed. -Edward

Dr. Gerandy: are you hurt, Bella?

Bella: no.

you're just... lifeless, Bella. -Charlie

i just want you (Bella) not to be miserable. -Charlie

it's been months. no calls, no letters, no contact. you (Bella) can't keep waiting for him (Edward). -Charlie

losing track of time was the most i asked from life. -Bella

it was depressing to realize that i wasn't the heroine anymore, that my story was over. -Bella

i would have nightmares, but they wouldn't be zombies. -Bella

as much as i struggled not to think of him (Edward), i did not struggle to forget. -Bella

i could not think of them (the Cullens), but i must remember them. -Bella

there was just one thing i had to believe to be able to live -- i had to know that he (Edward) existed. -Bella

if i were to go to jacksonville, or anywhere else bright and unfamiliar, how could i be sure he (Edward) was real? in a place where i could never imagine him, the conviction might fade... and i could not live through. -Bella

forbidden to remember, terrified to forget. -Bella

it was a crippling thing, this sensation that a huge hole had been punched through my chest, excising my most vital organs and leaving ragged, unhealed gashes around the edges that continued to throb and bleed despite the passage of time. -Bella

it didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time. rather that i'd grown strong enough to bear it. -Bella

whether it was the zombies, the adrenaline or the hallucinations that were responsible -- it had woken me up. -Bella

for the first time in a long time, i didn't know what to expect in the morning. -Bella

sometimes, kismet happens.

speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear. -Jacob

i was anxious to be gone, to get back to the human world. -Bella

this had to be it, the recipe for hallucination -- adrenaline plus danger plus stupidity. -Bella

Jacob: Bella! are you alive?

Bella: i'm great! let's do it again!

do i look like i tripped on your (Jacob) garage and hit my head on a hammer? -Bella

if i let myself slip up, i'd end up with my arms clutching my chest to hold it together, grasping for air. -Bella

i was like a lost moon -- my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation -- that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity. -Bella

i couldn't stand hurting Jacob; we seemed to be connected in an odd way, and his pain set off little stabs on my own. -Bella

how was i ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when i enjoyed being with him (Jacob) so much? -Bella

Jacob: i've got loads of time

Bella: you shouldn't waste it on me.

i can't imagine how i could not like being with you (Jacob). -Bella

i waited for the memory to hit -- to open the gapping hole, but, as it so often did, Jacob's presence kept me whole. -Bella

one thing i truly knew -- knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest -- was how love gave someone the power to break you. -Bella

i'd been broken beyond repair. -Bella

i couldn't bear for him (Jacob) to get hurt, and i couldn't bear from hurting him, either. -Bella

even here, on the point of death, his (Edward) name tore against my unhealed wounds like a serrated edge. -Bella

the future was lost to me forever, had never really been within my grasp. -Bella

i hated anything that caused him (Jacob) pain. hated it fiercely. -Bella

besides, there'd never been one moment that i wasn't completely aware that Edward Cullen was above and beyond the ordinary. it wasn't such a surprise to find out what he was -- because he so obviously was something. -Bella

well, i'm so sorry that i can't be the right monster for you, Bella. i guess i'm not as great as a bloodsucker, am i? -Jacob

who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? -Jacob

Emily: so, you're the vampire girl.

Bella: yes, are you the wolf girl?

Emily: i guess i am.

Jared: we've got bait!

Jacob: Bella is not a bait.

love is irrational. the more you loved someone, the less sense anything made. -Bella

Bella: life is complicated.

Mike: and girls are cruel.

happiness. it made the whole dying thing bearable. -Bella

goodbye, i love you (Edward). -Bella

i felt a cruel stab of pain when i recognized the voice -- because it wasn't Edward's. -Bella

i couldn't imagine my life without Jacob now. -Bella

could i betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life? -Bella

be happy. -Bella's hallucination

my visitor waited perfectly motionless in the center of the hall, beautiful beyond imagining. 

leave it to you, Bella. anyone else would be better off then the vampires left town but you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find. -Alice

Alice: you looked tired.

Bella: yeah, near-death experiences do that to me.

Charlie: i didn't argue when she (Bella) insisted on staying here... she did seem to get better at first.

Alice: but?

Charlie: she went back to school and work, she ate and slept and did her homework. she answered when someone asked her a direct question. but she was... empty. her eyes were blank. there were lots of little things -- she wouldn't listen to music anymore; i found a bunch of CDs broken in the trash. she didn't read; she wouldn't be in the same room when the TV was on, not that she watched it so much before. i finally figured it out -- she was avoiding everything that might remind her of... him (Edward). 

it was night of the living dead around here. i still hear her (Bella) screaming in her sleep. 

true love was forever lost. the prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. i was not a princess after all. -Bella

it's a bit late for that, Rose. save your remorse for someone who believes it. -Alice

don't follow me. i promise, Jasper. one way or another, i'll get out... and i love you. -Alice

you are so bizarre, even for a human. -Alice

how strongly are you opposed to grand theft auto? -Alice

Guard: is this a joke?

Alice: only if you think it's funny.

i would never want anything but him (Edward), no matter how long i lived. -Bella

amazing. -Edward's first word after 8 months

it was very strange, for i knew we were both in mortal danger. still, in that instant, i felt well. whole. i could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. my lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off from his (Edward) skin. it was like there had never been a hole in my chest. i was perfect -- not healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place. -Bella

at least i could still be with him (Edward) again before i died, that was better than long life. 

they send you (Jane) out for one and you came back with two... and a half. -Alec

i love a happy ending. they are so rare. -Aro

i cause problems as often as i cure them. -Alice

Marcus sees relationships. he's surprised by the intensity of ours. -Edward

i think she's (Bella) having hysterics. maybe you should slap her. -Alice

it was heaven --- right smack in the middle of hell. -Bella

how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating? -Bella

Edward: i can see where you might confuse me with a nightmare. but i can't imagine what you could have done to wind up in hell. did you commit any murders while i was away?

Bella: obviously not. if i was in hell, you wouldn't be with me.

you should probably know that i'm breaking the rules right now. well, not technically, since he (Charlie) said i was never to walk through his doors again, and i came on the window. 

every second that he (Edward) was here -- so close, his flawless face glowing in the dim light from the numbers on my alarm clock -- was precious and not to be wasted. -Bella

he (Edward) should be happy, no matter what it cost me. -Bella

but how could you believe me> after all the thousand time i told you i love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me? -Edward

as if there were any way that i could exist without needing you! -Edward

i'm here, and i love you. i have always loved you, and i will always love you. -Bella

the way i feel about you (Edward) will never changer. of course, i love you -- and there's nothing you can do about that. -Bella

i'm not going anywhere. not without you. -Edward

only you could be more important than what i wanted... what i needed. what i want and need is to be with you, and i know i'll never be strong enough to leave again. -Edward

i'm not strong as you give me credit for. -Edward

before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. very dark, but there were stars -- points of light and reason. and then you shot across my sky like a meteor. suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. when you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. i couldn't see the stars anymore. and there was no reason for anything. -Edward