Stephenie Meyer Quotes (383 Quotes)

The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now.

You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.

It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century.

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

I'd rather die than be with anyone but you.

So much had changed, and so abruptly. It made me feel a little dizzy, like I was standing on an edge, a precipice somewhere much too high.

They call her my singer-because her blood sings for me.

You're not the center of the universe, you know.

I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.

You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable.

Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

I had the feeling Edward wasn't the kind of person anyone got used to.

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.

So the lion fell in love with the lamb....

Your hair looks like a haystack...but I like it.

For a second I was just a kid - a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward's eyes.

I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow.

No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot.

With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part - you had already altered me so completely.

And then the third wife did something that the Cold Woman did not expect. She fell to her knees at the blood drinker's feet and plunged the knife into her own heart.

He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.

If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.

Jacob's little smirk became a full-blown grin, and I knew he was picturing Charlie showing up to arrest him. This grin was too bitter, too full of mocking to satisfy me. This wasn't the smile I'd been waiting to see.

The worst part is that I saw the whole thing -- our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can't, and it's killing me.

You can have me the way i am - bad behavior included - or not at all.

Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger.

But it doesn't make sense for you to love me...

I just couldn't live in a world where you didn't exist

I'll always be waiting in the wings Bella

Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm losing myself.

Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.

You've got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It's insulting.

I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.

You may have taken the planet, but you will lose this game!

Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that.

Your number was up the first time I met you.

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned....

I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else.

Of course, die for the monster spawn. It was so Bella.

Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

As long as she wants me, I'm here.

He's playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he's doing and I don't. Don't blame me because he's a better manipulator than I am - I haven't been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

I'm a pro at weird.-Bella Swan

Just curious. Like James and Victoria had been curious in the beginning? The thought of Victoria made me tremble, thought the one thing they seemed certain of was that it had not been her. Not this time. She would stick to her obsessed pattern. This was just someone else, a stranger.

There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half.

You don't have anything like this. For crying out loud, you only own one skirt!