How we cite our quotes: (chapter.paragraph)
Quote #1
[Edward to Bella:] "And I should feel sorry that you're not sorry, but I don't." (2.85)
It seems that part of the lure of sexual attraction is that it harbors something forbidden.
Quote #2
Even more embarrassingly… I wanted his venom to poison my system. (14.151)
The idea of Edward biting her has a sexual attraction for Bella. Are sex and violence related? Why or why not?
Quote #3
I knew which human experience I was going to insist on before I became inhuman. (20.12)
Out of all the human experiences Bella doesn't want to miss, she picks having sex with Edward. What's so fundamentally human about having sex?
Quote #4
I'd never made myself quite so vulnerable before. (20.117)
To open yourself to sexual intimacy with another person puts you into a very vulnerable place. For one, you expose your body to them. What is so vulnerable about physical nakedness?
Quote #5
Because right now, physically, there's nothing I want more than you. More than food or water or oxygen. Intellectually, I have my priorities in a slightly more sensible order. (20.141)
Bella seems to imply that physical or sexual attraction doesn't have much to do with your intellect. So is sexual attraction purely physical?
Quote #6
You have no more idea what you're talking about than I do. (20.162)
Although Edward is technically over 100 years old, he's probably never made love to a human woman. How might that affect his reluctance to sleep with Bella?
Quote #7
…his body felt colder than ever. (20.176)
It's an interesting reversal that Edward gets colder when he's sexually aroused. Can you think of other reversals in Eclipse, related to Edward and Bella's sexual relationship?
Quote #8
[Bella to Edward:] "You're trying to protect my virtue!" (20.225)
Aside from religious beliefs, what's so sinful about sex? How does modern media portray sex?