"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

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

"What if I'm not the superhero? What if I'm the bad guy?"
-Edward Cullen"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"The talking came earlier." I groaned. "What did you hear?" His gold eyes grew very soft. "You said you loved me." "You knew that already," I reminded him, ducking my head. "It was nice to hear, just the same." I hid my face against his shoulder. "I love you," I whispered. "You are my life now," he answered simply."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Alice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."
Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"
Alice: 'I do. Excellent.'"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"I coveted you." His smile darkened. "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." He shook his head in mock horror."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"How old are you?"
"Seventeen," he answered promptly.
"And how long have you been seventeen?"
His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

"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 promise to love you forever—every single day of forever."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa