How we cite our quotes: (chapter.paragraph)
Quote #1
Someone like me shouldn't be human. Someone with my luck ought to be little less helpless. (4.4)
Is Bella really as helpless as she makes herself out to be?
Quote #2
[Bella to Jacob:] "Am I the only one who has to get old?… Damn it!… Where's the justice?" (5.67)
Do you think Bella would have problems with aging if she didn't have supernatural, non-aging friends?
Quote #3
[Jacob to Bella:] "When we get enough control to quit… we stop phasing for a solid length of time we age again." (5.77)
If, in our human world, we were able to control aging, what age would most people choose to stay at?
Quote #4
Jacob was still warm, comparatively human. Mortal. (5.132)
Bella relates being warm with being human, or being mortal. That's why vampires are cold, because they're immortal. What other characteristics of warm and cold do we find in Eclipse?
Quote #5
Angela's easy human dramas were oddly reassuring. It was nice to know that life was normal somewhere. (6.20)
Bella seems to believe that mortals are more prone to exaggerate life's obstacles. How could human drama and mortality be related?
Quote #6
[Bella to Jacob:] "I know it's silly, but their hearts are in the right place." "Their hearts!" he scoffed. (6.244)
Obviously, Bella is talking about the Cullen family's "mental" heart, but Jacob seems to believe that the absence of a physical heart negates the presence of a mental heart. Does he have a point?
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.