Eclipse (Twilight, #3)

by Stephenie Meyer

“The outside world holds no interest for me without you.”

Yeah. The right thing isn’t always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else.

“You are the most dangerous creature I’ve ever met,” he muttered.

“I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us—comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken.…” He stared into space for a moment, and I waited. “If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic…”

I could see what he saw, and I knew that he was right. If the world was the sane place it was supposed to be, Jacob and I would have been together. And we would have been happy. He was my soul mate in that world—

It had not been Edward and Jacob that I’d been trying to force together, it was the two parts of myself, Edward’s Bella and Jacob’s Bella. But they could not exist together, and I never should have tried.