I made the Cowardly Lion look like the terminator.
What? You don’t want to be- BFFs?
Don’t let hope make you stupid.
Did you know your hair is just precisely the same shade as a teak inlaid ceiling in a monastery I once stayed at?
She cut him off. “We’re finished, thank you very much, that ought to cover it, no change, thanks.” She was already out of her seat. I fumbled for my wallet. “Um, let me – you didn’t even get anything – ” “My treat, Beau.” “But – ” “Try not to get caught up in antiquated gender roles.
Seriously, though, this wasn’t a life and death situation – it was just high school. It’s not like anyone was going to bite me.
Or maybe, just maybe, a small voice whispered in my head, it’s not a joke, silly. Maybe he’s really that worried about you. This wouldn’t be the first time he’s gone a little overboard trying to protect you. I sighed.
Let me introduce you to my wife.” It was the first time Edward had said that word since it was officially true; he seemed like he would explode with satisfaction saying it now. The Denalis all laughed lightly in response. “Tanya, this is my Bella.
Like Riley said, I was god now. Stronger, faster, better. Nobody else counted.
I was well aware that my league and his league were spheres that did not touch.
I don’t see the rest of point of the world without her anymore.
It seems I can’t stay away from her.
The vampire had both his arms around the human girl, and she had both hands pressed to his chest. Her throat was just inches from his mouth, but she didn’t look frightened of him at all. And he didn’t look like he was hunting her. I had tried to wrap my head around the idea of a coven with a pet human, but this was not close to what I had imagined. If she’d been a vampire, I would have guessed that they were together.
She was fantasy and I was the very most mundane kind of reality.
Even in the most compassionate, humankind’s limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.
I didn’t feel the need to rub it in to every cheeseburger I conquered.
Another legend claims that we descended from wolves – and that the wolves are our sisters still.
Poor Mike. I’ll bet he’s mad.” “He absolutely loathes me,” Edward said cheerfully.
I felt the pulse behind the fire raging now in my chest and realized that I’d found my heart again, just in time to wish I never had. To wish that I’d embraced the blackness while I’d still had the chance. I wanted to raise my arms and claw my chest open and rip the heart from it – anything to get rid of this toture. But I could’t feel my arms, couldn’t move one vanished finger.
You couldn’t care about me. if you could hold me in your hand, me, you would be disgusted. You would throw me to the ground and grind me under your foot.