"I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood"
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"About three things I was absolutely positive:
First, Edward was a vampire;
Second, there was a part of him -- and I didn't know how dominant that part might be -- that thirsted for my blood;
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Penguins, lovely."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Twilight again, he murmured." Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls just did that on TV."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"No spiders?"
"Nope."
"And no radioactivity?"
"None."
...
"Kryptonite doesn't bother me either."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"How strongly are you opposed to grand theft auto?"
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"So eager for eternal damnation."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Bella, do you think any of us want to look into Edward's eyes for the next few millenniums if he loses you? You can't see the change that you've brought over him, but we can..."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I can't live in a world where you don't exist. - Bella Swan"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Edward. Edward. My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. And a world without Edward seemed completely pointless. Edward had to exist."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"You compare one little tree to the entire forest."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I was not left drifting. A new string held me where I was.
Not one string, but a million. Not strings, but steel cables. A million steel cables all tying me to one thing - to the very center of the universe.
I could see that now - how the universe swirled around this one point. I'd never seen the symmetry of the universe before, but now it was plain.
The gravity of the earth no longer tied me to the place where I stood.
It was the baby girl in the blond vampire's arms that held me here now.
Renesmee."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Rosalie: "Over my pile of ashes."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Upon the hearth the fire is red
Beneath the roof there is a bed
But not yet weary are our feet
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone
Tree and flower and leaf and grass
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky
Pass them by! Pass them by!

"Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gait
And though we pass them by today
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the moon or to the sun
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell
Fare you well! Fare you well!

"Home is behind the world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight
Then world behind and home ahead
We’ll wander back to home and bed
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp and meat and bread
And then to bed! And then to bed!

"Still round the corner there may wait
A hidden road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
There may come a time at last that I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
East of the moon west of the sun."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"I may not die now...but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I touched his face. Look, I love you more than everything else in the world combined. Isn't that enough?
Yes, it is enough, he answered smiling. Enough for forever.
And he leaned down to press his cold lips one more to my throat."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Our relationship couldn’t continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely on his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I’d ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Bella. Can you hear me?"

"No. Go away."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Edward: Friends don't let friends drive drunk.
Bella: I'm not drunk!
Edward: You are intoxicated by my presence.
Bella: And you are not intoxicated by my presence?
Edward: ...Regardless, I am a better driver"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"'Do I dazzle you?'

'Frequently.'"
— Stephenie Meyer

"He called you pretty. That's practically an insult the way you look tonight, you're much more than beautiful."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue."
— Pablo Neruda

"And then, you said my name. And I knew I couldn't ignore you any longer."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I think your friends are angry with me for stealing you."

"They'll survive."

"I may not give you back, though."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"It will be as if I never existed.
-Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"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 brilliance, 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 reason for anything."
— Stephenie Meyer

"I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don't exist, not irritating me to death."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"You're wrong you know. You are worth it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Your hair looks like a haystack, but I like it.
-Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

"Do you really have any idea how important you are to me! Any concept at all of how much I love you?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"I hear voices in my head and you're worried that you're the freak."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I love you, it's a poor excuse for what I'm doing but it's true.
-Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Edward Cullen is staring at you."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"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."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

" "I'll show you how I travel in the forest." He saw my expression. "Don't worry, you'll be very safe, and we'll get to you truck much faster." His mouth twitched up into that crooked smile so beautiful my heart nearly stopped.
"Will you turn into a bat?" I asked warily.
He laughed, louder that I'd ever heard. "Like I haven't heard that one before!"
"Right, I'm sure you get it all the time.""
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly.
"No! Of course not."
"No, not really? You really didn't attack him?"
"Emmett!" I protested.
"Aw, what a waste," Emmett groaned. "And here you're probably the one person who could take him--since he can't get in your head to cheat--and you had a perfect excuse, too." He sighed. "I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage."
I glared at him frostily. "I would never."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren't in love with me?
-Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

"Are you sure you won't vanish in the morning? You are mythical, after all."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

"Her heart fluttered; my dead heart suddenly felt warmer."
— Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun)

"Stupid, unreliable vampire."
— Stephenie Meyer

"All I could think was, not her.
-Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Isabella Swan: Are you going to tell me how you stopped the van?
Edward Cullen: Yeah. Um... I had an adrenaline rush. It's very common. You can Google it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)