Mortality Quotes in Eclipse Page 3
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| Quote #7 [Rosalie to Bella:] "Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending – but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now." (7.20) |
Rosalie's attitude presents an interesting reversal to the human world, where death typically means the opposite of a happy ending. Or could she mean that there's happiness in the fact that human life has an end?
| Quote #8 [Rosalie to Bella:] But there will never be more than the two of us. And I'll never sit on a porch somewhere, with him gray-haired by my side surrounded by our grandchildren. (7.119) |
Rosalie seems to idealize this traditional image of human life here. It's interesting that while Bella envies Rosalie's eternal youthful beauty, Rosalie would prefer to grow old and gray.
| Quote #9 [Edward to Bella:] "After a few decades, everyone you know is dead. Problem solved." (9.165) |
It seems Edward is being sarcastic. He means to say that it's more painful to outlive the people you love than to die before them. What's your take on it?
