| Quote #1 [Bella:] "You know what I want." (1.195) |
Bella’s wish to be changed into a vampire has become a constant point of contention between her and Edward. She puts it before anything else.
| Quote #2 My eyes dark… pallid skin… I might even pass for a vampire now… But I was not beautiful and I probably looked closer to a zombie. (5.25) |
A big part of becoming a vampire for Bella is to be beautiful.
| Quote #3 Jacob had grown into some of his potential in the last eight months… the tendons and veins had become prominent under the red-brown skins of his arms, his hands. His face… had hardened… the planes of his cheekbones sharper… all childish roundness gone. (5.82) |
Bella (unwittingly) describes one of the first symptoms of Jacob’s transformation into a werewolf: physical maturity.