| Quote #10 I’d thought that Jake had been healing the hole in me – or at least plugging it up… I’d been wrong. He’d just been carving out his own hole… (11.235) |
Again, with love comes emotional attachment, and with emotional attachment comes pain.
| Quote #11 "We’re a pretty messed-up pair, aren’t we?" Jacob said. "Neither one of us can hold our shape together right." (15.77) |
Throughout New Moon, shape shifting or transformation (both emotional and physical) is connected with pain.
| Quote #12 I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole… It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. It was perfect – not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place. (20.70) |
The pain is gone as though it never existed, mentally as well as physically. Such is the supernatural power of love! Does this scene seem realistic to you?