The Twilight Saga Complete Collection Quotes

“That’s the funny thing about knowing you can’t have something. It makes you desperate.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“Throughout the vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both. — Rev. Montague Summers”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“if there's no change
...
there'd be no butterflies”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“Part of me wanted to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“I knew they were speculating away, but I didn’t care. I was staring at the most beautiful face in the world. She was hot in my arms, reminding me of the moment when the blackness had almost won, when there was nothing in the world left to hold on to. Nothing strong enough to pull me through the crushing darkness. The moment when I’d thought of Renesmee and found something I would never let go of. “I remember you, too,” I told her quietly.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“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 brilliancy, 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 more reason for anything.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“no images in my head. She didn’t have pictures for her feelings now.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“We don’t know what she saw,” Edward said. “Alice is neither unfeeling nor a coward. She just has more information than we do.” “We would not—,” Sam began. “You are bound differently than we are,” Edward snapped. “We each still have our free will.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“Alice moved slowly—for her—around the big room, unnecessarily tidying the already immaculate space, straightening Esme’s perfectly hung garlands. She was re-centering Esme’s vases on the console at the moment. I could see from the way her face fluctuated—aware, then blank, then aware again—that she was searching the future. I assumed she was trying to see through the blind spots that Jacob and Renesmee made in her visions as to what was waiting for us in South America until Jasper said, “Let it go, Alice; she’s not our concern,” and a cloud of serenity stole silently and invisibly through the room. Alice must have been worrying about Irina again.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“Alice moved slowly—for her—around the big room, unnecessarily tidying the already immaculate space, straightening Esme’s perfectly hung garlands. She was re-centering Esme’s vases on the console at the moment. I could see from the way her face fluctuated—aware, then blank, then aware again—that she was searching the future.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“Or perhaps there was a reason for my scanning, some tiny trigger that my razor-sharp senses had caught before I realized it consciously.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“He coveted beauty, talent, and rarity in his immortal followers more than any jewel locked in his vaults.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“Often, when I looked back over my first three months as an immortal, I imagined how the thread of my life might look in the Fates’ loom—who knew but that it actually existed? I was sure my thread must have changed color; I thought it had probably started out as a nice beige, something supportive and non-confrontational, something that would look good in the background. Now it felt like it must be bright crimson, or maybe glistening gold. The tapestry of family and friends that wove together around me was a beautiful, glowing thing, full of their bright, complementary colors.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“My old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I’d brought forward to be intensified in my new life.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“My old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“I didn’t want to snap here, if that was coming. Better to be surrounded by trees than family.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“Oh well,” I said lightly, relieved that my thoughts were still my own. “I guess my brain will never work right. At least I’m pretty.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“That spot of heat in my phantom arms felt so real. I clutched it closer. It was exactly where my heart should be. Holding tight the warm memory of my daughter, I knew that I would be able to fight the darkness as long as I needed to.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“My shaking jerked to a stop; heat flooded through me, stronger than before, but it was a new kind of heat—not a burning. It was a glowing. Everything inside me came undone as I stared at the tiny porcelain face of the half-vampire, half-human baby. All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was—my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self—disconnected from me in that second—snip, snip, snip—and floated up into space. 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.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“My shaking jerked to a stop; heat flooded through me, stronger than before, but it was a new kind of heat—not a burning. It was a glowing. Everything inside me came undone as I stared at the tiny porcelain face of the half-vampire, half-human baby. All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was—my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self—disconnected from me in that second—snip, snip, snip—and floated up into space.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“You must exercise control. It is possible, and it is the only thing that will save you now.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“She’s had too much to deal with today. Let her mind protect itself.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“My entire being shies away from any course that could inspire that kind of pain again.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“and I knew I would not panic again. The next time something came at us, I would be ready. An asset, not a liability.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“I had done all that I could do. I tried to accept that, and put the things that were outside of my control out of my head, for tonight at least.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“But on the other hand,” he countered, “you will soon be leaving time behind you altogether. So why should the transitory customs of one local culture affect the decision so much?”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“All the stories tell us that it was no easy thing to be a spirit warrior. It was more frightening than exhilarating to be freed from one’s body. This is why they only used their magic in times of need.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter. It felt sort of like homesickness, this longing for the place and person who had sheltered me through my darkest night.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“But what if... What if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection

“I felt like a peeping tom, peering through the cracks at a private sorrow that wasn’t mine.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Complete Collection