Here's a listing of my favorite quotes and scenes from Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. I will soon be making icons from all of my favorites that are iconable and am going to have to learn to do some animated icons so I can put a whole scene onto one.


On an unrelated side note - I got my hair coloured today for the first time in about 3 years and instead of the honey brown I was going for, I got a darker bronzey copper colour. The colourist apologized for putting the wrong pigment combo in but I was ecstatic. I have the exact shade of hair I picture Edward as having. Haha. Very cool. Plus, as a bonus, this shade is much better for my pasty complexion than the original honey colour I was going to get anyways.


Now, before you go reading these PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT PEAK UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK!!! You have been warned.


Now, this took all day so don't go and copy & pasting this on your own site. None of this belongs to me, it is all the work of Stephenie Meyer.

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Chapter 1 - Ultimatum

"Yeah I miss you too. A lot. Doesn't change anything. Sorry." - Jacob Black

"What have big cities done wrong now?" - Bella Swan

"Fiancée. Ugh." - Bella Swan

"For a teenager, you’re amazingly non-whiney." - Charlie Swan

"With Jacob there is a . . . conflict." - Bella Swan

"Okay, okay. Balance." - Bella Swan

"Harvard? Dartmouth? Well that’s pretty . . . that’s something. Yeah, but the University of Alaska . . . you wouldn’t really consider that when you could go Ivy League." - Charlie Swan

"Be serious, Edward. Dartmouth?” - Bella Swan

“Penguins. Lovely.” - Edward Cullen

“You have some serious issues with the classics." - Bella Swan

“I think it’s something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart — not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end. . . .” - Bella Swan

“Their love is their only redeeming quality.” - Bella Swan

"The werewolves came back because the vampires did." - Bella Swan

"If I’d never left, you wouldn’t feel the need to go risk your life to comfort a dog." - Edward Cullen

“You compare one small tree to the entire forest.” - Edward Cullen

"No werewolves." - Edward Cullen



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Chapter 2 - EVASION


“Whatever you’re thinking, Alice, I doubt I’m that free.” - Bella Swan

"Free is free, right?" - Alice Cullen

“I’m sure I still have boundaries — like the continental U.S., for example.” - Bella Swan

“Is it naptime already, Alice?” - Edward Cullen

“You’re really not that good a mechanic, Edward. Maybe you should have Rosalie take a look at it tonight, just so you look good if Mike decides to let you help, you know. Not that it wouldn’t be fun to watch his face if Rosalie showed up to help. But since Rosalie is supposed to be across the country attending college, I guess that’s not the best idea. Too bad. Though I suppose, for Mike’s car, you’ll do. It’s only within the finer tunings of a good Italian sports car that you’re out of your depth. And speaking of Italy and sports cars that I stole there, you still owe me a yellow Porsche. I don’t know that I want to wait for Christmas. . . .” - Alice Cullen

With the blood still pounding in my head from Edward’s kiss, I couldn’t help but think of my mother’s most life-altering mistake. Silly and romantic, getting married fresh out of high school to a man she barely knew, then producing me a year later. She’d always promised me that she had no regrets, that I was the best gift her life had ever given her. And yet she’d drilled it into me over and over — smart people took marriage seriously. Mature people went to college and started careers before they got deeply involved in a relationship. She knew I would never be as thoughtless and goofy and small-town as she’d been. . . . - Bella Swan




“What did you do to this?” he asked in a horrorstruck voice.

“It didn’t want to come out of the dashboard.”

“So you felt the need to torture it?”

“You know how I am with tools. No pain was inflicted intentionally.”

He shook his head, his face a mask of faux tragedy. “You killed it.”


"You did say something about the continental U.S. being allowable.” - Edward Cullen

“You aren’t the only one who’s been trapped in this house, you know." - Edward Cullen

“I’ll do my time without complaining when I’ve done something wrong, Dad, but I’m not going to put up with your prejudices.” - Bella Swan

"It’s not like I’m headed off to Vegas to be a showgirl or anything." - Bella Swan

“Interceded? You threw me to the sharks!” - Bella Swan

"My natural teenage instincts overpower me.” - Bella Swan

I smiled. Edward and Alice playing chess was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. They’d sat there nearly motionless, staring at the board, while Alice foresaw the moves he would make and he picked the moves she would make in return out of her head. They played most of the game in their minds; I think they’d each moved two pawns when Alice suddenly flicked her king over and surrendered. It took all of three minutes. - Bella Swan

“You and Edward seem pretty serious, and there are some things that you need to be careful about. I know you’re an adult now, but you’re still young, Bella, and there are a lot of important things you need to know when you . . . well, when you’re physically involved with —” - Charlie Swan

“Oh, please, please no! Please tell me you are not trying to have a sex talk with me, Charlie.” - Bella Swan

"Maybe the times have, but Edward is very old-fashioned. You have nothing to worry about.” - Bella Swan

"I am a . . . virgin, and I have no immediate plans to change that status." - Bella Swan

I wasn’t in the mood to be alone, but I certainly wasn’t going to go back downstairs to hang out with my Dad, just in case he thought of some topic of sex education that he hadn’t touched on before; I shuddered. - Bella Swan

"In that instant when they shift from one form to the other, they don’t really even exist. The future can’t hold them. . . ." - Edward Cullen

"Shut your window if you want me to stay away tonight. I’ll understand." - Edward Cullen




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Chapter 3 - MOTIVES


“Your mother has a very interesting mind. Almost childlike, but very insightful. She sees things differently than other people.” - Edward Cullen

"There’s something . . . strange about the way you two are together. The way he watches you — it’s so . . . protective. Like he’s about to throw himself in front of a bullet to save you or something.” - Renee Dwyer

"He’s very intense about you . . . and very careful. I feel like I don’t really understand your relationship. Like there’s some secret I’m missing. . . .” - Renee Dwyer


“It’s not just him.” She set her lips defensively. “I wish you could see how you move around him.”

“What do you mean?”

“The way you move — you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets . . . or gravity. You’re like a . . . satellite, or something. I’ve never seen anything like it.”


"You’re reading mysteries again, aren’t you? Or is it sci-fi this time?” - Bella Swan

“We’re home, Sleeping Beauty. Time to awake.” - Edward Cullen

"I’d rather drink water than inhale it.” - Bella Swan

What difference could three days make? - Bella Swan

“I think . . . I think he was checking. Checking to make sure. That I’m human, I mean.” - Bella Swan

"We won’t ever be able to come back.” - Edward Cullen

"If I asked you to do something, would you trust me?" - Edward Cullen

“I was afraid you would say that.” - Edward Cullen

"I’m not staying in the car." - Bella Swan

I realized that Jacob looked dangerous to them. How odd. - Bella Swan

"Sorry. I don’t have any leeches on my speed dial.” - Jacob Black

“Message delivered. Consider us warned.” - Edward Cullen

"Were you afraid she’d take our side?” - Jacob Black

“What don’t I know? Edward?” - Bella Swan

“He didn’t tell you that his big . . . brother crossed the line Saturday night?” - Jacob Black

“It was no-man’s land!” - Edward Cullen

"She came back for me" - Bella Swan

"Why should she be frightened when she was never in danger?” - Edward Cullen

“It’s nothing, Bella, Jacob just has a good memory, that’s all.” - Edward Cullen

“It’s his own fault if he doesn’t like the things I remember, though.” - Jacob Black

“I miss you every day, Bella. It’s not the same without you.” - Jacob Black

"What happened? Tell me everything. And screw the protecting me crap, please." - Bella Swan

"I wasn’t about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive." - Edward Cullen

Like I couldn’t fly cross country without bringing the plane down. Very funny. - Bella Swan




So let’s say my bad luck did crash the plane. What exactly were you going to do about it? - Bella Swan

Why is the plane crashing? - Edward Cullen

The pilots are passed out drunk. - Bella Swan

Easy. I’d fly the plane. - Edward Cullen

Of Course - Bella Swan

Both engines have exploded and we’re falling in a death spiral toward the earth. - Bella Swan

I’d wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I’d run you back to the scene of the accident, and we’d stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history. - Edward Cullen




“Is that something you’d like to share there, Mr. Cullen?” - Mr. Berty

"My notes?" - Edward Cullen


“Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.” - Mike Newton

“There’s something about Edward. He’s always so . . . confident. I have a feeling he can take care of himself.” - Ben Cheney

“Besides, if that other kid messed Edward up, you know those big brothers of his would get involved.” - Tyler Crowley

"Ten on Jacob." - Austin

"Ten on Cullen." - Tyler Crowley

"Ten on Edward." - Ben Cheney

"I still say Jacob." - Mike Newton




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Chapter 4 - NATURE


Not panicking was easier said than done. - Bella Swan

“I’m really glad Edward didn’t kill you. Everything’s so much more fun with you around.” - Emmett Cullen

“Haven’t you noticed yet, Bella, that Edward is just the teeniest bit prone to overreaction?” - Alice Cullen

Edward had promised that he would change me himself whenever I wanted . . . just as long as I was married to him first. - Bella Swan

Sometimes I wondered if he was only pretending that he couldn’t read my mind. - Bella Swan

“Bag a few mountain lions for me.” - Bella Swan

"I’ll be back so soon you won’t have time to miss me. Look after my heart — I’ve left it with you." - Edward Cullen

Translation: don’t try anything funny just because Edward is gone. - Bella Swan

"Okay, amaze me." - Jacob Black

“The fortune-telling bloodsucker can’t see us?” - Jacob Black

“Being apart . . . It didn’t work out so well for either of us.” - Bella Swan

“Nature taking its course — hunter and prey, the endless cycle of life and death.” - Jacob Black

“And yet, you don’t see the fish trying to plant a kiss on the eagle. You never see that.” - Jacob Black

“It’s hard to tell what a fish is thinking." - Bella Swan

"It would even out the gap between us just a little bit — because he’d still be the most loving and unselfish and brilliant and decent person I’ve ever met. Of course I love him. How hard is that to understand?” - Bella Swan

"Please enlighten me, then, Jacob, what is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.” - Bella Swan

“Well, that just sucks! I guess I’m stuck with Mike Newton after all.” - Bella Swan

“I didn’t choose this.” - Jacob Black

“You know, Jacob, you’re awfully self-righteous — considering that you’re a werewolf and all.” - Bella Swan

"Speaking of unnatural . . . ,” - Bella Swan

“Normal humans run away from monsters, Bella." - Jacob Black



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Chapter 5 - IMPRINT


"I'm the crybaby now." - Jacob Black

"Why can’t you both just be civilized?" - Bella Swan

"I'll try to behave myself." - Jacob Black

"Sam shook his hand. Old Quil just about had a stroke." - Jacob Black

“Remind me not to get on your bad side.” - Bella Swan

"We can’t all be saints and martyrs.” - Jacob Black

“You . . . can’t . . . grow up? You’re what? Not . . . aging? Is that a joke?” - Bella Swan

"You. Are. Not. Aging." - Bella Swan

"Am I the only one who has to get old? I get older every stinking day!" - Bella Swan

"Damn it! What kind of world is this? Where’s the justice?" - Bella Swan

“Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.” - Jacob Black

"It’s one hell of a growth spurt.” - Jacob Black

"So, did you want to hear about Sam, or did you want to scream at me some more for things that are out of my control?” - Jacob Black

"Age is a touchy subject for me." - Bella Swan

"Have you ever heard of imprinting?” - Jacob Black

“Love at first sight? But more powerful?” - Bella Swan

"It’s hard to resist that level of commitment and adoration." - Jacob Black

"No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see." - Jacob Black

"Edward’s never in my head. He only wishes.” - Bella Swan

“I already knew there was something wrong with your brain.” - Jacob Black

"I was remembering that moronic movie you took me to. And Mike Newton puking all over everything." - Jacob Black

"I remembered how you always used to have your arms wrapped around yourself, trying to hold yourself together. . . .” - Jacob Black

"Just Bella and Jacob. None of those freaky Virgos here." - Jacob Black



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Chapter 6 - SWITZERLAND



"Not only are you saving my hands from permanent injury, you also just spared me two long hours of a plot-less, badly dubbed martial arts film." - Angela Weber

"Bella, I’ve seen how Jacob Black looks at you. I’d bet the real problem is jealousy.” - Angela Weber

“Edward’s only human, Bella. He’s going to react like any other boy.” - Angela Weber

“Er . . . so, I’m still alive.” - Bella Swan

“Do you have any idea how close I came to crossing the line today?" - Edward Cullen

“Werewolves constitute a risk.” - Edward Cullen

"I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland." - Bella Swan

"I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures." - Bella Swan

"If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too." - Bella Swan

"Switzerland." - Bella Swan

"Don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog." - Edward Cullen

"A slumber party?" - Bella Swan

“You’re kidnapping me, aren’t you?” - Bella Swan

“Alice, don’t you think this is just a little bit controlling? Just a tiny bit psychotic, maybe?” - Bella Swan

"A vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.” - Bella Swan

"Can’t you have a life when he’s gone? Or does he lock you in a coffin?” - Jacob Black

“I’m kind of being held prisoner.” - Bella Swan

"I have been tortured — Alice painted my toenails.” - Bella Swan

"You are in trouble. Enormous trouble. Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home.” - Bella Swan

“This hostage stuff is fun.” - Alice Cullen

The couch was pushed to the north wall and the stereo shoved up against the vast shelves of CDs — to make room for the colossal bed that now dominated the central space.

“You didn’t really think he would make you sleep on the couch, did you?” - Alice Cullen

Porsches as bribes and king-sized beds in houses where nobody slept — it was beyond irritating. - Bella Swan




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Chapter 7 - UNHAPPY ENDING


"If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now." - Rosalie Hale

“I lived in a different world than you do, Bella. My human world was a much simpler place. It was nineteen thirty-three. I was eighteen, and I was beautiful. My life was perfect.” - Rosalie Hale

"I was silly and shallow, but I was content." - Rosalie Hale

"Someday, I would be queen." - Rosalie Hale

“It took some time before I began to blame the beauty for what had happened to me — for me to see the curse of it." - Rosalie Hale

“You know, my record is almost as clean as Carlisle’s. Better than Esme. A thousand times better than Edward. I’ve never tasted human blood." - Rosalie Hale

“I’m frightening you, aren’t I?” - Rosalie Hale

“He doesn’t like to tell other people’s stories — he feels like he’s betraying confidences, because he hears so much more than just the parts they mean for him to hear.” - Bella Swan

“What a liar that boy is.” - Rosalie Hale

"At first, I was mostly jealous because he wanted you and not me." - Rosalie Hale

I was thinking about Edward and Tanya and all those females, and my lips pressed together in a hard line

"Edward has always been a little strange.” - Rosalie Hale

"You have the choice that I didn’t have, and you’re choosing wrong!” - Rosalie Hale

“Not bad for a prison break, eh?” - Jacob Black




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Chapter 8 - TEMPER



“Quil . . . imprinted . . . with a two-year-old?” - Bella Swan

“You’re making judgments. I can see it on your face.” - Jacob Black

"All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.” - Jacob Black

"traded a lifetime of servitude for a box of conversation hearts." - Bella Swan

"Is this goodbye then, Jake?” - Bella Swan

“Anything. Anything else. You’d be better off dead. I’d rather you were.” - Jacob Black

“I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.” - Edward Cullen

"Do you mind telling me what it is about this bed that you object to?” - Edward Cullen

“This would be difficult on a couch." - Edward Cullen

“I was just trying to illustrate the benefits of the bed you don’t seem to like. Don’t get carried away.” - Edward Cullen

“I’m going to spontaneously combust one of these days — and you’ll have no one but yourself to blame.” - Bella Swan



“What are you doing?” I objected, clinging to him. - Bella Swan

“Protecting you from combustion. If this too much for you. . . .” - Edward Cullen

“She mentioned something about a bunch of female vampires . . . and you.” - Bella Swan

“Tanya expressed a little interest. I let her know, in a very courteous, gentlemanly fashion, that I did not return that interest. End of story.” - Edward Cullen

“I prefer brunettes.” - Edward Cullen

“You’re quite adorable when you’re jealous. It’s surprisingly enjoyable.” - Edward Cullen

“Sleep, my Bella. Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep, my only love.” - Edward Cullen




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Chapter 9 - TARGET




"Not one of them. One of us.” - Edward Cullen

“You’ve already got me watching the Volturis’ decisions, watching for Victoria’s return, watching Bella’s every step. You want to add another? Do I just have to watch Charlie, or Bella’s room, or the house, or the whole street, too? Edward, if I try to do too much, things are going to start slipping through the cracks.” - Alice Cullen

How crowded would this new world be when I finally joined it? - Bella Swan

“Is Jacob paying you for all the P.R., or are you a volunteer?” - Bella Swan




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Chapter 10 - SCENT


“Is it really so impossible to wear clothes, Jacob?” - Bella Swan

“Does my being half-naked bother you?” - Jacob Black

“What’s it like — having a vampire for a boyfriend?” - Jacob Black

“Do you have obsessive-compulsive disorder?” - Jacob Black

“We’re a bit sensitive to blood around here. I’m sure you can understand that.” - Bella Swan

“What’s it like — having a werewolf for a best friend?” - Jacob Black

“Is he your warden, now, too? You know, I saw this story on the news last week about controlling, abusive teenage relationships and —” - Jacob Black

“Time for the werewolf to get out!” - Bella Swan

"I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.” - Edward Cullen

"I didn’t stab him. He forgot he had a knife in his hand.” - Bella swan

“That’s not nearly as fun as the way I imagined it.” - Edward Cullen

“I may not be Dartmouth material, but I’m not stupid enough to believe that.” - Bella Swan

"You know, this whole secrecy and deception thing is kind of a pain.” - Bella Swan

"After a few decades, everyone you know is dead. Problem solved." - Edward Cullen

“Jasper is sort of an expert on young vampires.” - Edward Cullen

“Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren’t in love with me?” - Edward Cullen



“What is that?” - Bella Swan

“Nothing,” Edward murmured. - Edward Cullen

“It doesn’t look like nothing.” - Bella Swan



“This is something you do with Jacob. I see that now.” - Edward Cullen

"I hear road rash is quite uncomfortable." - Edward Cullen

“You can’t push what you don’t have.” - Jacob Black




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Chapter 11 - LEGENDS


“Hey, vampire girl!” - Embry Call

“What’s the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?” - Bella Swan





And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out, and drank his blood! But, till then — if you don’t believe me, you don’t know me — till then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head!

The three words that had caught my eye were “drank his blood.”




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Chapter 12 - TIME


“How can someone so tiny be so annoying?” - Edward Cullen

“Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad?” - Edward Cullen

"You aren’t going through with this because a sword is hanging over your head" - Edward Cullen



“There.” He kissed my forehead. “Nothing to worry about.” - Edward Cullen

I laughed a shaky laugh. “Nothing but impending doom." - Bella Swan


“You could do so much better, Bella. I know that you believe I have a soul, but I’m not entirely convinced on that point, and to risk yours . . . For me to allow this — to let you become what I am just so that I’ll never have to lose you — is the most selfish act I can imagine. I want it more than anything, for myself. But for you, I want so much more. Giving in — it feels criminal. It’s the most selfish thing I’ll ever do, even if I live forever." - Edward Cullen

“If there were any way for me to become human for you — no matter what the price was, I would pay it.” - Edward Cullen

“Bella, for a fairly intuitive person, you can be so obtuse!” - Edward Cullen

“I don’t think you realize how much easier it will be for me, Bella, when I don’t have to concentrate all the time on not killing you." - Edward Cullen

“And the sound of your heart. It’s the most significant sound in my world. I’m so attuned to it now, I swear I could pick it out from miles away. But neither of these things matter. This. You. That’s what I’m keeping. You’ll always be my Bella, you’ll just be a little more durable.” - Edward Cullen

“You don’t want to be my wife.” - Edward Cullen

“I’m not that girl, Edward. The one who gets married right out of high school like some small-town hick who got knocked up by her boyfriend! Do you know what people would think? Do you realize what century this is? People don’t just get married at eighteen! Not smart people, not responsible, mature people! I wasn’t going to be that girl! That’s not who I am. . . .” - Bella Swan

“It’s not that you were . . . more eager for immortality itself than for just me?” - Edward Cullen

“And here . . . I always . . . thought that . . . you were . . . so much . . . smarter than me!” - Bella Swan

“Well, that’s a relief.” - Edward Cullen

“You see, Bella, I was always that boy. In my world, I was already a man. I wasn’t looking for love — no, I was far too eager to be a soldier for that; I thought of nothing but the idealized glory of the war that they were selling prospective draftees then — but if I had found . . . I was going to say if I had found someone, but that won’t do. If I had found you, there isn’t a doubt in my mind how I would have proceeded. I was that boy, who would have — as soon as I discovered that you were what I was looking for — gotten down on one knee and endeavored to secure your hand. I would have wanted you for eternity, even when the word didn’t have quite the same connotations.” - Edward Cullen

“Breathe, Bella.” - Edward Cullen

"The thing is, Edward,in my mind, marriage and eternity are not mutually exclusive or mutually inclusive concepts." - Bella Swan

“How much do you know about me, Bella?” - Jasper Hale

“Jasper, you have a scar exactly like mine.” - Bella Swan

“I have a lot of scars like yours, Bella.” - Jasper Hale

“Jasper, what happened to you?” - Bella Swan



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Chapter 13 - NEWBORN



“Our venom is the only thing that leaves a scar.” - Jasper Hale

"You’ve kept me waiting a long time." - Alice Cullen



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Chapter 14 - DECLARATION


“But . . . the . . . you . . . I . . . insane!” - Bella Swan

“Hey, it’s the least I can do — I offered eternal servitude, remember. I’m your slave for life.” - Jacob Black

“Bella, I love you. And I want you to pick me instead of him. I know you don’t feel that way, but I need the truth out there so that you know your options. I wouldn’t want a miscommunication to stand in our way.” - Jacob Black



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Chapter 15 - WAGER

“I can’t — I mean I don’t . . . I have to go.” - Bella Swan

"There really is something irresistible about a lost cause.” - Jacob Black

“I love him, Jacob. He’s my whole life.” - Bella Swan

“You love me, too. Not the same way, I know. But he’s not your whole life, either. Not anymore. Maybe he was once, but he left. And now he’s just going to have to deal with the consequence of that choice — me.” - Jacob Black

"Dammit! You broke my hand!” - Bella Swan

"I can’t wait to see what Edward does to you! I hope he snaps your neck, you pushy, obnoxious, moronic DOG!” - Bella Swan

“I hate you, Jacob Black.” - Bella Swan

“That’s good. Hate is a passionate emotion.” - Jacob Black

“I’ll give you passionate. Murder, the ultimate crime of passion.” - Bella Swan

“Next time you want to hit me, use a baseball bat or a crowbar, okay?” - Jacob Black




“Why did she hit you?” - Charlie Swan

“Because I kissed her,” Jacob said, unashamed. - Jacob Black

“Good for you, kid,” Charlie congratulated him. - Charlie Swan



“I think you’re right about the break. I’m proud of you. You must have put some force behind this.” - Edward Cullen

“Why don’t you arrest me, Dad? I’m the one throwing punches.” - Bella Swan

“I’m not going to kill you now, because it would upset Bella.” - Edward Cullen

"But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don’t care whose fault it is; I don’t care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel?” - Edward Cullen

And if you ever kiss her again, I will break your jaw for her.” - Edward Cullen

“Fall down again, Bella?” - Emmett Cullen

“Jasper’s going to win the bet." - Rosalie Hale

“They’re betting on how many times you . . . slip up in the first year.” - Edward Cullen

“Rosalie thinks your temper will turn the odds in Jasper’s favor.” - Edward Cullen

"Jasper's betting high." - Bella Swan

I knew he’d take me to Antarctica and hunt penguins if I asked him to. - Bella Swan



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Chapter 16 - EPOCH


“Stupid, thieving, annoying vampire!” - Bella Swan

“Admit it. I’m a lifesaver.” - Alice Cullen

"I feel so useless. So . . . normal." - Alice Cullen

“I can’t imagine how awful that must feel. Being normal? Ugh.” - Bella Swan

"You’re not my little girl anymore." - Charlie Swan

A couple of angels, standing there with wings intact, would be less conspicuous. - Bella Swan

“What was she thinking about, anyway? To keep you out, I mean.” - Bella Swan

“She was translating the Battle Hymn of the Republic into Arabic, actually. When she finished that, she moved on to Korean sign language.” - Edward Cullen

"Don’t worry — you’re just experiencing post-graduation pessimism.” - Bella Swan

“I never thought I needed to teach you how to throw a punch. Guess I was wrong about that.” - Charlie Swan

“No, Dad. That’s kind of sweet in a weird way, but I don’t think lessons would have helped. Jacob’s head is really hard.” - Bella Swan

"The right thing isn’t always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So . . . good luck figuring that out.” - Charlie Swan

“She doesn’t do things halfway, does she?” - Charlie Swan



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Chapter 17 - ALLIANCE



“Alice will be Alice.” - Edward Cullen

“Should we give them familiar and comforting? Or educate their taste in music?” - Alice Cullen

“Keep it comforting. You can only lead the horse to water.” - Edward Cullen

“They’re all dying to see the inside of the reclusive Cullens’ mystery house.” - Edward Cullen

“Who invited the werewolf?” - Alice Cullen

“In case my right hook was too subtle for you, let me translate: that was me uninviting you.” - Bella Swan

“Oh, c’mon, Bell. Don’t pretend like I’m not here!” - Jacob Black

“Could I please have just a few seconds of your undivided attention, Miss Swan?” - Jacob Black

“I really am sorry. About the other day, I mean, too. I shouldn’t have kissed you like that. It was wrong. I guess . . . well, I guess I deluded myself into thinking you wanted me to.” - Jacob Black

“Deluded — what a perfect description!” - Bella Swan

"Don’t lie to me, you suck at lying." - Jacob Black



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Chapter 18 - INSTRUCTION


“That had to be the longest party in the history of the world,” - Bella Swan

"You’re very perceptive today. It’s impressive.” - Edward Cullen

“Prepare yourselves — they’ve been holding out on us.” - Edward Cullen

“You truly are one frightening little monster.” - Alice Cullen

“I’ll warn him if your plans get any more defined. It doesn’t help anything for you to put yourself in danger. Do you think either of them would give up if you died? They’d still fight, we all would. You can’t change anything, so just be good, okay?” - Alice Cullen

“We tried to talk Seth into staying behind with the younger two. He’s still too young, but he’s stubborn and he’s resisting. So I thought of a new assignment for him — cell phone.” - Jacob Black

"To think it’s come to this, though! Trusting werewolves!” - Edward Cullen

“Fighting with vampires instead of against them!” - Jacob Black



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Chapter 19 - SELFISH


“Jacob Black can give you presents.” - Edward Cullen

“You’re in every thought I have. I don’t need reminders.” - Bella Swan

“Everyone else is able to get away with giving you things. Everyone but me. I would have loved to get you a graduation present, but I didn’t. I knew it would have upset you more than if anyone else did. That’s utterly unfair. How do you explain yourself?” - Edward Cullen

“The way you regard me is ludicrous.” - Edward Cullen

“I’m not going to hide out in the forest while you all take risks for me.” - Bella Swan

“The pack is fascinating. Almost as fascinating as you are when you’re trying to distract me.” - Bella Swan

“Here’s the thing . . . I’ve already gone crazy once. I know what my limits are. And I can’t stand it if you leave me again.” - Bella Swan

"You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That’s how compromise is supposed to work.” - Edward Cullen

“Who’s the third wife?” - Edward Cullen

“You worry too much, Bella. You’re going to go prematurely gray.” - Alice Cullen

“Edward is such a grouch when he doesn’t get his way. I’m just anticipating living with him for the next few months. I suppose, if it keeps you sane, it’s worth it. But I wish you could control the pessimism, Bella. It’s so unnecessary.” - Alice Cullen

“Would you let Jasper go without you?” - Bella Swan


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Chapter 20 - Compromise

"I thought it was a good representation. It’s hard and cold. And it throws rainbows in the sunlight.” - Edward Cullen

“You forgot the most important similarity. It’s beautiful.” - Bella Swan

“My heart is just as silent. And it, too, is yours.” - Edward Cullen

"It’s a relief to have you accept a gift so easily." - Edward Cullen

"Listen to your heart fly. It’s fluttering like a hummingbird’s wings. Are you all right?” - Edward Cullen

“Matrimony.” I made it sound like a dirty word. - Bella Swan

“You’re blushing? Please, Bella, the suspense is painful.” - Edward Cullen

"I’m afraid I’ll be so preoccupied with the mayhem that I won’t be me anymore . . . and that I won’t . . . I won’t want you the same way I do now.” - Bella Swan

“Edward, there’s something that I want to do before I’m not human anymore.” - Bella Swan

“I’m yours.” - Edward Cullen

“Be reasonable, Bella.” - Edward Cullen

“You promised — whatever I wanted." - Bella Swan




“You know why I have to say no,” he murmured. “You know that I want you, too.”

“Do you?” I whispered, my voice full of doubt.

“Of course I do, you silly, beautiful, oversensitive girl.” He laughed once, and then his voice was bleak. “Doesn’t everyone? I feel like there’s a line behind me, jockeying for position, waiting for me to make a big enough mistake. . . . You’re too desirable for your own good.”




“Getting married is a stretch for me. I’m not giving in unless I get something in return.” - Bella Swan

"It won’t be the same when I’m less breakable. I won’t be the same! I don’t know who I’ll be then.” - Bella Swan

"Right now, physically, there’s nothing I want more than you. More than food or water or oxygen. Intellectually, I have my priorities in a slightly more sensible order. But physically . . .” - Bella Swan

“Bella, I could kill you." - Edward Cullen

"I already know how strong you are. You didn’t have to break the furniture.” - Bella Swan

He was too beautiful. What was the word he’d used just now? Unbearable — that was it. - Bella Swan

His beauty was too much to bear. . . .

Bella, Would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?” - Edward Cullen

“I wasn’t born yesterday. Out of the two of us, which do you think is more unwilling to give the other what they want? You just promised to marry me before you do any changing, but if I give in tonight, what guarantee do I have that you won’t go running off to Carlisle in the morning? I am — clearly — much less reluctant to give you what you want. Therefore . . . you first.” - Edward Cullen

“I have to marry you first?” - Bella Swan

“You have a one-track mind.” - Edward Cullen



“How did this happen?” I grumbled. “I thought I was holding my own tonight — for once — and now, all of a sudden —”

“You’re engaged,” he finished.



“Do you get the feeling that everything is backward? Traditionally, shouldn’t you be arguing my side, and I yours?” - Edward Cullen

“There isn’t much that’s traditional about you and me.” - Bella Swan

“I said I would marry you, and I will. I promise. I swear. If you want, I’ll sign a contract in my own blood.” - Bella Swan

“What I’m saying is this — I’m not going to trick you or anything. You know me better than that. So there’s really no reason to wait. We’re completely alone — how often does that happen? — and you’ve provided this very large and comfortable bed. . . .” - Bella Swan

“You always win.” - Bella Swan

“Just hedging my bets.” - Edward Cullen

“I swear to you, we will try. After you marry me.” - Edward Cullen




I shook my head, and laughed glumly. “You make me feel like a villain in a melodrama — twirling my mustache while I try to steal some poor girl’s virtue.”

His eyes were wary as they flashed across my face, then he quickly ducked down to press his lips against my collarbone.

“That’s it, isn’t it?” The short laugh that escaped me was more shocked than amused. “You’re trying to protect your virtue!” I covered my mouth with my hand to muffle the giggle that followed. The words were so . . . old-fashioned.

“No, silly girl,” he muttered against my shoulder. “I’m trying to protect yours. And you’re making it shockingly difficult.”

“Of all the ridiculous —”

“Let me ask you something,” he interrupted quickly. “We’ve had this discussion before, but humor me. How many people in this room have a soul? A shot at heaven, or whatever there is after this life?”

“Two,” I answered immediately, my voice fierce.

“All right. Maybe that’s true. Now, there’s a world full of dissension about this, but the vast majority seem to think that there are some rules that have to be followed.”

“Vampire rules aren’t enough for you? You want to worry about the human ones too?”

“It couldn’t hurt.” He shrugged. “Just in case.”

I glared at him through narrowed eyes.

“Now, of course, it might be too late for me, even if you are right about my soul.”

“No, it isn’t,” I argued angrily.

“‘Thou shalt not kill’ is commonly accepted by most major belief systems. And I’ve killed a lot of people, Bella.”

“Only the bad ones.”




He smiled, but otherwise ignored the interruption. “And I’m going to do my best to keep you out of temptation’s way.”

“Okay. But we weren’t fighting over committing murder,” I reminded him.

“The same principle applies — the only difference is that this is the one area in which I’m just as spotless as you are. Can’t I leave one rule unbroken?”

“One?”

“You know that I’ve stolen, I’ve lied, I’ve coveted . . . my virtue is all I have left.” He grinned crookedly.




“I lie all the time.” - Bella Swan

“I coveted you. I had no right to want you — but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what’s become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.” - Edward Cullen

“So that’s it. You won’t sleep with me until we’re married.” - Bella Swan

“Technically, I can’t ever sleep with you.” - Edward Cullen

“Very mature, Edward.” - Bella Swan

“It doesn’t have to be a big production. I don’t need any fanfare. You won’t have to tell anyone or make any changes. We’ll go to Vegas — you can wear old jeans and we’ll go to the chapel with the drive-through window. I just want it to be official — that you belong to me and no one else.” - Edward Cullen



“I suppose you don’t want your ring now?”

I had to swallow before I could speak. “You suppose correctly.”

He laughed at my expression. “That’s fine. I’ll get it on your finger soon enough.”

I glared at him. “You talk like you already have one.”

“I do,” he said, unashamed. “Ready to force upon you at the first sign of weakness.”



“Show me the damn ring, Edward.” - Bella Swan

“You are the most dangerous creature I’ve ever met." - Edward Cullen

“I like old-fashioned things.” - Bella Swan

“Bella, I’m not going to solder it to your finger. Just try it on so I can see if it needs to be sized. Then you can take it right off.” - Edward Cullen

He was glowing — his angel’s face brilliant with joy and victory. He was so glorious that it knocked me breathless. - Bella Swan

“Isabella Swan? I promise to love you forever — every single day of forever. Will you marry me?” - Edward Cullen



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Chapter 21 - TRAILS



“Bella?” Alice asked in a sad voice, shifting over and curling up against my side. Her voice sounded so miserable that I wrapped my arms around her shoulders in comfort.

“What’s wrong, Alice?”

“Don’t you love me?” she asked in that same sad tone.

“Of course I do. You know that.”

“Then why do I see you sneaking off to Vegas to get married without inviting me?”

“Oh,” I muttered, my cheeks turning pink. I could see that I had seriously hurt her feelings, and I hurried to defend myself. “You know how I hate to make a big deal out of things. It was Edward’s idea, anyway.”

“I don’t care whose idea it was. How could you do this to me? I expect that kind of thing from Edward, but not from you. I love you like you were my own sister.”

“To me, Alice, you are my sister.”

“Words!” she growled.

“Fine, you can come. There won’t be much to see.”

She was still grimacing.

“What?” I demanded.

“How much do you love me, Bella?”

“Why?”

She stared at me with pleading eyes, her long black eyebrows slanting up in the middle and pulling together, her lips trembling at the corners. It was a heart-breaking expression.

“Please, please, please,” she whispered. “Please, Bella, please — if you really love me . . . Please let me do your wedding.”

“Aw, Alice!” I groaned, pulling away and standing up. “No! Don’t do this to me.”

“If you really, truly love me, Bella.”

I folded my arms across my chest. “That is so unfair. And Edward kind of already used that one on me.”

“I’ll bet Edward would like it better if you did this traditionally, though he’d never tell you that. And Esme — think what it would mean to her!”

I groaned. “I’d rather face the newborns alone.”

“I’ll owe you for a decade.”

“You’d owe me for a century!”

Her eyes glowed. “Is that a yes?”

“No! I don’t want to do this!”

“You won’t have to do anything but walk a few yards and then repeat after the minister.”

“Ugh! Ugh, ugh!”

“Please?” She started bouncing in place. “Please, please, please, please, please?”

“I’ll never, never ever forgive you for this, Alice.”

“Yay!” she squealed, clapping her hands together.

“That’s not a yes!”

“But it will be,” she sang.

“Edward!” I yelled, stalking out of the garage. “I know you’re listening. Get over here.” Alice was right behind me, still clapping.





"You know, Edward, as a brother, you are sometimes a disappointment.” - Alice Cullen

“Bella has issues with jewelry." - Edward Cullen

“What’s one more diamond? Well, I guess the ring has lots of diamonds, but my point is that he’s already got one on —” - Alice Cullen

“I don’t understand. What’s that about diamonds?” - Bella Swan

“Well, even if she does get her way, we can keep it small. Just us. Emmett can get a clerical license off the Internet.” - Edward Cullen

“You . . . got over it? When? How?” - Bella Swan

“I lived through an entire twenty-four hours thinking that you were dead, Bella. That changed the way I look at a lot of things.” - Edward Cullen

“There had to have been a better way to do this.” - Edward Cullen

“Bunch of vampires trying to kill you. The usual.” - Jacob Black

“Either you’re lying, or you are the stubbornest person alive.” - Jacob Black

“A smart person looks at all sides of a decision.” - Jacob Black

“Some people will go to any lengths to delude themselves.” - Jacob Black

"Edward is the only person I’ve ever kissed.” - Bella Swan

“But I don’t count that as a kiss, Jacob. I think of it more as an assault.” - Bella Swan

“Think about it, Bella. According to you, you’ve kissed just one person — who isn’t even really a person — in your whole life, and you’re calling it quits? How do you know that’s what you want? Shouldn’t you play the field a little?” - Jacob Black

“Then it couldn’t hurt to double check. Maybe you should try kissing someone else — just for comparison’s sake . . . since what happened the other day doesn’t count. You could kiss me, for example. I don’t mind if you want to use me to experiment.” - Jacob Black

“Don’t mess with me, Jake. I swear I won’t stop him if he wants to break your jaw.” - Bella Swan

“Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf.” - Jacob Black

"I did something . . . bad.” - Bella Swan

“That doesn’t mean that he loves you more than I do.” - Jacob Black

"Underneath, I’m always in here.” - Jacob Black

"Why else would I put up with all your crap?" - Bella Swan

"When are you finally going to figure out that you’re in love with me, too?” - Jacob Black

“Leave it to you to ruin the moment.” - Bella Swan

“I’m not some freaky werewolf, Jacob.” - Bella Swan

"I didn’t want to be some legendary chief. I didn’t want to be part of a pack of werewolves, let alone their leader." - Jacob Black

"Chief Jacob." - Bella Swan



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Chapter 22 - FIRE AND ICE



“Go fetch a space heater. I’m not a St. Bernard.” - Jacob Black

“I run at a toasty one-oh-eight point nine these days. I’ll have you sweating in no time.” - Jacob Black

"Of course, you’d warm up faster if you took your clothes off.” - Jacob Black

“You don’t have the faintest idea how much I wish I could do what you’re doing for her, mongrel.” - Edward Cullen

“At least you know she wishes it was you.” - Jacob Black

“Why are you so much furrier than your friends?" - Bella Swan

“Do you mind!” - Edward Cullen

“Do you think you could attempt to control your thoughts?” - Edward Cullen

“Get out of my head.” - Jacob Black

“I wish I could. You have no idea how loud your little fantasies are. It’s like you’re shouting them at me.” - Edward Cullen

“Yes, I’m jealous of that, too.” - Edward Cullen

“Go to sleep, Jacob. You’re starting to get on my nerves.” - Edward Cullen

“It’s an uncomfortable truce, isn’t it?” - Edward Cullen

“I knew you were just as crazy jealous as I am.” - Jacob Black

"Would you try to kill me?" - Jacob Black

“Do you really think I would hurt her that way?” - Edward Cullen

“What is it like? Losing her? When you thought that you’d lost her forever? How did you . . . cope?” - Jacob Black

“That’s very difficult for me to talk about.” - Edward Cullen

“But you left because you didn’t want to make her a bloodsucker. You want her to be human.” - Jacob Black




“Jacob, from the second that I realized that I loved her, I knew there were only four possibilities. The first alternative, the best one for Bella, would be if she didn’t feel as strongly for me — if she got over me and moved on. I would accept that, though it would never change the way I felt. You think of me as a . . . living stone — hard and cold. That’s true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There’s no going back. . . .

“The second alternative, the one I’d originally chosen, was to stay with her throughout her human life. It wasn’t a good option for her, to waste her life with someone who couldn’t be human with her, but it was the alternative I could most easily face. Knowing all along that, when she died, I would find a way to die, too. Sixty years, seventy years — it would seem like a very, very short time to me. . . . But then it proved much too dangerous for her to live in such close proximity with my world. It seemed like everything that could go wrong did. Or hung over us . . . waiting to go wrong. I was terrified that I wouldn’t get those sixty years if I stayed near her while she was human.

“So I chose option three. Which turned out to be the worst mistake of my very long life, as you know. I chose to take myself out of her world, hoping to force her into the first alternative. It didn’t work, and it very nearly killed us both.

“What do I have left but the fourth option? It’s what she wants — at least, she thinks she does. I’ve been trying to delay her, to give her time to find a reason to change her mind, but she’s very . . . stubborn. You know that. I’ll be lucky to stretch this out a few more months. She has a horror of getting older, and her birthday is in September. . . .” - Edward Cullen



“In the sense that I’d never show her how hard it was for me, yes. But I would keep watch. You see, Jacob, you might leave her someday. Like Sam and Emily, you wouldn’t have a choice. I would always be waiting in the wings, hoping for that to happen.” - Edward Cullen

“You don’t like the leeches being painted as the bad guys?” - Jacob Black

“Don’t tempt me too far, wolf. My patience isn’t that perfect.” - Edward Cullen



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Chapter 23 - Monster



“Did you want me to take his arms all the way off?” - Edward Cullen

“My apologies, dog.” - Edward Cullen

"You started mumbling some nonsense about ‘Jacob, my Jacob.’ Your Jacob enjoyed that quite a lot.” - Edward Cullen

"You love me more than I deserve.” - Edward Cullen

Jacob was close. Jacob had heard every word we’d said. Jacob was in agony.

“I’m sorry I’m such a rotten person, I’m sorry I’ve been so selfish. I wish I’d never met you, so I couldn’t hurt you the way I have. I won’t do it anymore, I promise. I’ll stay far away from you. I’ll move out of the state. You won’t have to look at me ever again.” - Bella Swan

“That’s not much of an apology." - Jacob Black

“There’s a pretty serious fight brewing down there. I don’t think it will be that difficult to take myself out of the picture.” - Jacob Black

“How will you stop me?” - Jacob Black

"Will you kiss me Jacob?" - Bella Swan

“Kiss me, Jacob. Kiss me, and then come back.” - Bella Swan




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Chapter 24 - SNAP DECISION



“And I thought I fought dirty. He makes me look like the patron saint of ethics.” - Edward Cullen

“You’re such a bad liar, you’ll believe anyone who has the least bit of skill.” - Edward Cullen

"When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark — on both of you. I’m not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can’t blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn’t let me escape the consequences.” - Edward Cullen

"Let me suffer. I deserve it.” - Bella Swan

"You were right. It was always Victoria.” - Edward Cullen

"You don’t have to die for her lies.” - Edward Cullen

“Stay just a little longer.” - Edward Cullen


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Chapter 25 - MIRROR


“Bella, love. Bella, can you drop the rock, please? Carefully. Don’t hurt yourself.” - Edward Cullen

“Aren’t you afraid of me?” - Edward Cullen

“I’m fine, I’m okay. I’m just. Freaking out. Give me. A minute.” - Bella Swan

“I just beheaded and dismembered a sentient creature not twenty yards from you. That doesn’t bother you?” - Edward Cullen

“Your little stunt with the rock. You know that you nearly gave me a heart attack? Not the easiest thing to do, that.” - Edward Cullen

"Let her mind protect itself.” - Carlisle Cullen

“Overprotective fool.” - Alice Cullen

“Yes. Quite a pity how things turned out, isn’t it?” - Jane



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Chapter 26 - ETHICS



“Can you still see me becoming a vampire?” - Bella Swan

“Don’t you know your own mind, Bella?” - Alice Cullen

"I don’t think you need to worry about Jake too much. Anyone who can cuss with that kind of energy is going to recover.” - Charlie Swan

“And Edward was really . . . nice. He seemed as worried about Jacob as you are — like that was his brother lying there. The look in his eyes . . . He’s a decent guy, Bella. I’ll try to remember that. No promises, though.” - Charlie Swan

"Have you ever noticed how big those Quileute kids all are?” - Charlie Swan

“Maybe I’m just feeling . . . superstitious after hanging out with Billy while he was being so strange all day. But I have this . . . hunch. I feel like . . . I’m going to lose you soon.” - Charlie Swan

“Will you tell me before you do anything major? Before you run off with him or something?” - Charlie Swan

"Give me a chance to hug you goodbye.” - Charlie Swan

“Well, damn!” - Jacob Black

“Kissing me back like that was inexcusable.” - Jacob Black

“I’m not going to cut you in half anymore, Bella.” - Jacob Black

Two futures, two soul mates . . . too much for any one person. And so unfair that I wouldn’t be the only one to pay for it.

"He’s like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can’t live without him now. It’s too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.” - Jacob Black

“I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me.” - Bella Swan

“The clouds I can handle. But I can’t fight with an eclipse.” - Jacob Black

“The worst part is that I saw the whole thing — our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can’t, and it’s killing me. It’s like Sam and Emily, Jake — I never had a choice. I always knew nothing would change. Maybe that’s why I was fighting against you so hard.” - Bella Swan

"Silly Jacob — don’t you know better than to believe vampire stories?” - Bella Swan

“I’ll always be waiting in the wings, Bella." - Jacob Black

“Until my heart stops beating.” - Bella Swan



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Chapter 27 - NEEDS


“Bella . . . are you sure? Did you make the right choice? I’ve never seen you in so much pain —” - Edward Cullen

“Edward, I know who I can’t live without.” - Bella Swan

“You don’t understand. You may be brave enough or strong enough to live without me, if that’s what’s best. But I could never be that self-sacrificing. I have to be with you. It’s the only way I can live.” - Bella Swan

“‘If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.’ I know exactly what she means. And I know who I can’t live without.” - Bella Swan

“‘I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!’” - Edward Cullen (as Heathcliffe)

"I only have until August thirteenth at the latest, you have veto power on the guest list, and if I go overboard on anything, you’ll never speak to me again.” - Alice Cullen

“How could you not see that one coming? Some psychic you are!” - Bella Swan

“My age is not really that important. Edward, I’m ready. I’ve chosen my life — now I want to start living it.” - Bella Swan

“Tell me why you’re doing this, Bella. Why did you decide, now, to give Alice free reign?” - Edward Cullen

“Deal’s off." - Edward Cullen

“Bella, I see what you’re doing. You’re trying to make everyone else happy. And I don’t care about anyone else’s feelings. I only need you to be happy. Don’t worry about breaking the news to Alice. I’ll take care of it. I promise she won’t make you feel guilty.” - Edward Cullen

“I love you. I want you. Right now.” - Edward Cullen

“Responsibly. Everything in the right order. I will not leave Charlie and Renée without the best resolution I can give them. I won’t deny Alice her fun, if I’m having a wedding anyway. And I will tie myself to you in every human way, before I ask you to make me immortal. I’m following all the rules, Edward. Your soul is far, far too important to me to take chances with. You’re not going to budge me on this.” - Bella Swan

“You don’t fight fair.” - Edward Cullen

“It’s a good thing you’re bulletproof. I’m going to need that ring. It’s time to tell Charlie.” - Bella Swan

“Highly dangerous.” - Edward Cullen



He once again slid my ring into place on the third finger of my left hand.

Where it would stay — conceivably for the rest of eternity.



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EPILOGUE - CHOICE

“Jump off a cliff, Leah.” - Jacob Black

"You don't know how hard this is for me." - Leah

“You have to be the most self-absorbed person alive, Leah. I’d hate to shatter the dream world you live in — the one where the sun is orbiting the place where you stand — so I won’t tell you how little I care what your problem is. Go. Away.” - Jacob Black

“This is making me sick, Jacob. Can you imagine what this feels like to me? I don’t even like Bella Swan. And you’ve got me grieving over this leech-lover like I’m in love with her, too. Can you see where that might be a little confusing? I dreamed about kissing her last night! What the hell am I supposed to do with that?” - Leah





Jacob,

I’m breaking the rules by sending you this. She was afraid of hurting you, and she didn’t want to make you feel obligated in any way. But I know that, if things had gone the other way, I would have wanted the choice.

I promise I will take care of her, Jacob. Thank you — for her — for everything.

Edward


I pushed my legs faster, letting Jacob Black disappear behind me. - Jacob Black