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61 " Because no matter where I went, I would not be going to anywhere - I would only be running from. "
― Stephenie Meyer , Midnight Sun
62 " I wondered why the change. The only explanation I could think of was that she wanted her hair to look nice. And as the person she planned to see tomorrow was me, that meant she must have wanted it to look nice for me.Maybe I was wrong. But if I was right...how exasperating! How endearing! Her life had never been in deeper peril, but she still cared that I, the very menace threatening her life, liked her appearance. "
63 " You, out of everyone on this planet, are perhaps best equipped to deal with such a difficult quandary. You are the best and the brightest of us all. "
64 " Because I could kill every spider in her home, cut the thorns off every rosebush she might one day touch, block every speeding car that got within a mile of her, but there was no task I could perform that would make me something other than what I was. "
65 " I supposed, being shy as she appeared to be, attention would seem like a bad thing to her. Most humans felt the opposite. Though they didn’t want to stand out from the herd, at the same time they craved a spotlight for their individual uniformity. "
66 " Pomegranate seeds and my underworld. Hadn't I just witnessed a brutal example of how badly my world could go wrong for her? And she was lying here broken because of it (603). "
67 " I saw Persephone, pomegranate in hand. Dooming herself to the underworld. "
68 " Carlisle nodded absently, still looking over the X-rays. "Good idea. Hmm."I looked to see what had his interest.Look at all the healed contusions! How many times did her mother drop her? Carlisle laughed to himself at his joke. "
69 " Mi vida era una noche infinita e inmutable. Para mi, por necesidad, no cabía nada salvo tinieblas. Entonces ¿cómo era posible que el sol estuviera saliendo en mitad de mi noche eterna? "
70 " You don't care if I'm a monster? If I'm not human?""No." I started to wonder if she was entirely stable. "
71 " 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 (283). "
72 " What strange alchemy was this, that the touch of lips should be so much more than the touch of fingers? It made no logical sense that simple contact between this specific area of skin should be so much more powerful than anything I'd yet experienced. It felt as if a new sun was bursting into being where our mouths met, and my whole body was filled to a shatter point with the brilliant light of it (378). "
73 " I could say this for Arizona: The sun might be ridiculous, but the freeways were exceptional. Six wade, smooth lanes, with shoulders ample enough on either side that it was as good as eight. I used the left shoulder now to streak by two pickups who thought they belonged in the fast lane. "
74 " Her eyes ran across the rows and rows of books. I knew her well enough to see that the sight of so many books in one place was something of a dream to her. "
75 " What would it be like to feel the way Emmett did? To be so practical, so free from regret? To be able to so easily accept and move forward?Rose and I would both be happier people if we could follow his example. "
76 " Would it ever cease to thrill me that I was the one she was saying yes to? "
77 " A ignorância era uma bênção para a mente humana. "
78 " How old are you?" she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. "Seventeen." "And how long have you been seventeen?" I tried not to smile at her patronizing tone. "A while," I admitted (203) "
79 " The English room could have gone up in flames and I wouldn't have noticed. "
80 " I also saw very clearly in that moment that there was no separate monster and never had been one. Eager to disconnect my mind from my desires, I had - as was my habit - personified that hated part of myself to distance it from the parts that I considered me. Just as I had created the harpy to give myself someone to fight. It was a coping mechanism and not a very good one. Better to see myself as the whole, bad and good, and work with the reality of it (370). "