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[Bella to Edward:] "Which is tempting you more? My blood or my body?" I challenged. [Edward:] "It’s a tie." (2.230-231)
The sound of his name unleashed the thing that was clawing inside of me – a pain that knocked me breathless… (3.315)
[Edward:] "I’m not human." (3.176)
"Just as friends?" Mike suggested. (7.73)
[Edward:] "Time heals all wounds for your kind… my kind… we’re very easily distracted." (3.195)
[Edward to Bella:] "I promise… It will be as if I’d never existed." (3.193)
That was me. Me in a mirror. Me – ancient, creased, and withered. Edward stood beside me… excruciatingly lovely and forever seventeen. (1.19-20)
I needed to reign in the enthusiasm before I gave him the wrong idea – it was just that it had been a long time since I’d felt so light and buoyant. (5.135)
[Bella to Edward:] "If I develop this film," I said… "will you show up in the picture?" (1.210)
[Bella:] "You know what I want." (1.195)
Carlisle spoke slowly. "I look at my… son. His strength, his goodness, the brightness that shines out of him – and it only fuels that hope, that faith, more than ever. How could there n...
"You try to make up for something that wasn’t your fault." (2.48)
Jasper slammed into Edward, and the sound was like the crash of boulders in a rock slide. (1.242)
