And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.
If we could bottle your luck, we’d have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.
The absence of him is everywhere I look.
It was a strange combination to absorb – the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.
Just because I’m resisting the wine doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the bouquet.
I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.
It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share.
It’s too easy to be myself with you.
Because when I thought of him, of his voice, his hypnotic eyes, the magnetic force of his personality, I wanted nothing more than to be with him right now.
It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me – even before I was off the street – as soon as I heard his voice.
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.
Go jump off a cliff, Leah.
You’re not like anyone I’ve ever known. You fascinate me.
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.
It’s been almost a century that Edward’s been alone. Now he’s found you. You can’t see the changes we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?
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.
Jacob was a gift from the gods.
I was like a lost moon – my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation – that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.
How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?