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41 " Her heart fluttered; my dead heart felt warmer. "
― Stephenie Meyer , Midnight Sun
42 " I was a predator. She was my prey. "
43 " Rosalie was right about one thing, though. When Bella said the word forever, it didn't mean the same thing to her as it meant to me. For her, it meant merely a very long time. It meant she couldn't see the end yet. How could anyone who had lived only seventeen years comprehend what fifty years meant, let alone eternity? She was human, not a frozen immortal. Within just a few years, she would reinvent herself many times over. Her priorities would shift as her world grew wider. The things she wanted now wouldn't be the things she wanted then. "
44 " When I stared up at the jeweled sky, it was as if there were anobstruction between my eyes and its beauty. The obstruction was a face,just an unremarkable human face, but I couldn’t quite seem to banish itfrom my mind. "
45 " Let me have my five years, Rosalie," I whispered. "I know it can't last. Let me be happy while happiness is possible. Be part of that happiness. Be my sister, and if you can't love my choice the way I love yours, can you at least pretend to tolerate her?" (421). "
46 " The wast majority of my thoughts revolved around her as though she was the center of my mind's gravity. "
47 " It’s going to be fine, Edward. This is going to work out for the best. You deserve happiness, my son. Fate owes you that. "
48 " The sky above me was clear, brilliant with stars, glowing blue in someplaces, yellow in others. The stars created majestic, swirling shapes againstthe black backdrop of the empty universe "
49 " It’s twilight,” I said. The time when vampires came out to play—when we never had to fear that a shifting cloud might cause us trouble—when we could enjoy the last remnants of light in the sky without worrying that we would be exposed. "
50 " Her scent and her silence. Or rather—to take the responsibility on myself, where it belonged—my thirst and my curiosity. "
51 " She walked almost reverently into the golden light. It gilded her hair and made her fair skin glow. Her fingers trailed over the taller flowers, and I was reminded again of Persephone. Springtime personified. "
52 " Now we drive till the pavement ends.” “And what’s there?” she asked. “At the pavement’s end?” An empty forest. A total lack of witnesses. A monster. “A trail. "
53 " So, Bella, I was following your scent through the woods after I left your room—just some minor breaking and entering, no need for worry, I was… exterminating spiders.… Yes, that would be quite the icebreaker. "
54 " I could see the girl dressed all in white and walking at a measured pace, her arm through her father’s. It was odd, the pain that image caused me. I couldn’t understand it. Was I begrudging of her future because it was something I could never have? "
55 " Her gaze met mine, and I saw myself reflected in the mirror of her eyes. "
56 " For the first time in a hundred years, I was grateful to be what I was. Every aspect of being a vampire—all but the danger to her—was suddenly acceptable to me, because it was what had let me live long enough to findBella.The decades I had endured would not have been so difficult had I known what was waiting for me, that my existence was advancing toward something better than I could have imagined. It had not been years of killing time, as I had thought; it had been years of progress. Refining, preparing, mastering myself so that I could have this now. "
57 " So how was it possible that the sun was rising now in the middle of my midnight. —Edward Cullen. "
58 " What strange alchemy was this, that the touch of lips should be so much more than the touch of fingers? "
59 " Bella's going to stare at Edward in a minute. Look normal," Alice said one Tuesday in March (93), "
60 " As long as I burned, she was safe. "