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101 " I fall down a lot when I run,” she said sheepishly. "
― Stephenie Meyer , Midnight Sun
102 " I could imagine how lovely the place would be on a day like this. I could smell the wildflowers, sweeter in the warmth, and hear the low burble of the stream on the far side. The insects hummed, and far away, birds trilled and crooned. "
103 " A word I'd never said before in the presence of a lady slid between my clenched teeth (57). "
104 " She would enjoy that. And her happiness had become the most important thing. More important than my own. "
105 " 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. "
106 " The monster was stronger than before, rejoicing. He embraced this dual future that gave him a fifty-fifty chance at what he craved so viciously. The third, shaky future I'd tried to construct through willpower alone had collapsed--destroyed by common jealousy, of all things--and he was so much closer to his goal. "
107 " Se abrirmos exceções para nos protegermos, arriscamos algo muito mais importante: a essência do que somos. "
108 " Her virtue, my vice, the two opposites binding us together. "
109 " She said the words as though she was playing her trump card. As if jealously were rational enough to weigh out the physical attractiveness of the third parties, and then be felt in direct proportion (408). "
110 " Happy. Perhaps this was the reason for her unusual kindness - she was one of those rare people who had what she wanted and wanted what she had. "
111 " Alice laughed and picked out the top hand of "Heart and Soul." I grinned and completed the simple harmony with her. Then I favored her with a performance of "Chopsticks. "
112 " Beat the element of desire entirely out of myself. "
113 " 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 find Bella. "
114 " Her scent hit me like a battering ram, like an exploding grenade. There was no image violent enough to encompass the force of what happened to me in that moment. Instantly, I was transformed. I was nothing close to the I’d once been. No trace of the sheds of humanity that I’d managed to cloak myself in over the years remained. I was a predator. She was my prey. There was nothing else in the world but that truth "
115 " nightly gyrations. "
116 " When I stared up at the jeweled sky, it was as if there were an obstruction between my eyes and its beauty. The obstruction was a face, just an unremarkable human face, but I couldn’t quite seem to banish it from my mind. "
117 " One tear still glistened in the corner of her left eye, shining in the brightness of the room. A tiny, clear piece of her, an ephemeral diamond. Acting on some strange instinct, I reached out to catch it with my fingertip. Round on my skin, it sparkled as my hand moved. I swiftly touched my finger to my tongue, tasting her tear, absorbing this minute particle of her. "
118 " I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling- it was pulling myself up a cliff face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength. "
119 " Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed vampire stalker. "
120 " Clima, um assunto chato e batido. Sempre seguro. "