*
Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even
when each tick of the second hand aches like the
pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly,
in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it
does. Even for me.
- Bella Swan, p. 93
* 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 Swan, p. 201
* 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.
I had been broken beyond repair.
- Bella Swan, p. 219
* I'd never seen anything more beautiful — even as I
ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that.
And the last seven months meant nothing. And
[Edward's] words in the forest meant nothing. And it
did not matter if he did not want me. I would never
want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.
- Bella Swan, p. 451
* "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 more reason
for anything."
- Edward Cullen, p. 514
