Family Quotes in New Moon Page 3
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| Quote #7 [Jacob to Bella:] "It’s my blood on both sides. I never had a chance." (15.40) |
Jacob had no choice in joining the werewolf family. He was primed to become one. In our lives, are we sometimes bound to a certain calling by our heritage?
| Quote #8 [Bella:] …it had been more than just losing the truest of true lovers…It was also losing a whole future, a whole family – the whole life I’d chosen… (17.191) |
Losing Edward, Bella also lost a whole life she’d planned for herself. But can you actually plan your life?
| Quote #9 [Alice to Bella:] "Carlisle’s family is the biggest in existence… with the one exception. The Volturi. I suspect it’s their age… that gives them the ability to live peacefully together… Or maybe… their gifts… give them extra tolerance… Or maybe it’s just their love for power." (19.78) |
The Volturi family is bound together by power. The Cullens seem to be connected through love. What other qualities bind them as a family?
