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15 December 2009
How to show and use the Shortcuts keys in Word 2007?
In Word 2007, most of the shortcut keys are same from the earlier versions such as Word 2000 and Word 2003. But the interesting thing in Word 2007 is that, Microsoft provides a new look or system for these shortcuts keys. In earlier Word versions, you must memorize how to use the shortcuts keys such as (CTRL + B" to make letters bold and "CTRL + I" to make letters italic). But now, it does not require planned memorization in latest Word 2007 version. There is a fast, simple, and visual way to find out what you need to press.
Now by pressing the "ALT" button and many options or keyboard shortcuts (containing letters or numbers) will be appear on top of the toolbar buttons.
You will see here, For Example:
Alt-F = Office Button
Alt-1 = Save
Alt-2 = Undo
Alt-3 = Redo
Alt-H = Home
Alt-N = Insert tab
Alt-P = Page Layout tab
Alt-S = References tab
Alt-M = Mailings tab
Alt-R =Review tab
Alt-V =View tab
Alt-L = Developer tab
Now if you want to view the shortcuts keys for any other individual tabs. For example if you go to the Insert tab by pressing ALT-N only, then you will be able to see the extra shortcuts keys available.
Here Now if you press a letter listed below small image it will be like pushing that button. For Example
V = to set cover page
NP = insert new blank page
B = Page break
T = Insert table
P = Insert picture
F= Insert Clip Art
SH = Insert shapes
C = Chart
03 December 2009
How to run windows XP applications using Run Box?
The run option of Start menu is used to run a program or to open a document directly. If you do not know the exact location of the program or document then click on Start button to open Run and type the programs shortcut name to open it directly, For Example when you will open “Notepad” application and type “notepad” at the “Run box” then press “Enter” to run it. In this way you can run a lot of Windows XP Applications and Utilities.
Executable Filename --------------- Function
Access.cpl ------------------------- Used to run Add/Remove wizard
Accwiz.exe ------------------------ Runs the Accessibility Wizard
appwiz.cpl ------------------------- Runs the new add or remove programs wizard
wab.exe --------------------------- Runs the Windows Address Book
ntbackup.exe ------------------- Runs the Windows backup program
charmap.exe -------------------- Runs the Windows Character Map
Control.exe ---------------------- Runs the Control Panel
Timedate.cpl -------------------- Launches the computer’s date and time panel
Devmgmt.msc ------------------ Runs the Device Manager settings
Cleanmgr.exe ------------------- Lets you play the Disk Cleanup utility
netstat.exe ----------------------- View information about network settings
hdwwiz.cpl ---------------------- Run the new hardware search wizard
Chkdsk.exe ---------------------- Runs the utility that checks your hard disk problems
cmd.exe or command.exe ----- Both use to run MSDOS commands
Defrag.exe ------------------------ Run the Disk Defragmenter, which organizing files on your hard disk
Desk.cpl --------------------------- Launches the Display properties dialog box
fxsclnt.exe ---------------------- Use to Runs the Fax Console panel
control.exe folders ------------- Display the Folder option dialog box
control.exe fonts --------------- Display the Fonts Folder option dialog box
freecell.exe --------------------- Runs the FreeCell game
joy.cpl ------------------------- Runs the Game Controllers dialog box
mshearts.exe --------------- Launches the Hearts game
helpctr.exe ------------------ Display the windows Help and Support Center
hypertrm.exe -------------- Runs the HyperTerminal application
bckgzm.exe -------------- Run the Internet Backgammon game
chkrzm.exe---------------- Run the Internet Checkers game
iexplore.exe----------------- Run the Internet Explorer
inetcpl.cpl------------------- Run the Internet Properties dialog box
main.cpl -------------------- Help you to manage the Keyboard Properties
logoff.exe ------------------ Shortcut to Logoff Windows XP
magnify.exe ---------------- Launches a program to magnify windows applications conf.exe --------------------- Runs the Microsoft NetMeeting conferencing program.
27 November 2009
The Story Behind the Ampatuan Clan
Source: Global News Blog
Many Filipinos are pointing to the massacre of 46 unarmed people in the southern Philippines province of Maguindanao Monday as evidence of the deadly influence of a dynastic clan that has been nurtured by the central government for almost 20 years. Nothing is yet proven, but survivors of the attack, national politicians, and police officials all say the likely perpetrators were loyalists of Andal Ampatuan, a former provincial governor who has used his private army to control politics in the province for a decade. Mr. Ampatuan was term-limited out of the governorship this year. In his three election campaigns, no local politician dared to run against him.
His son, Andal Jr., was gearing up for a similarly unopposed run to replace his father. But Ismael Mangudadatu, a former ally of the Ampatuans, had other ideas. On Monday morning, he dispatched a convoy of cars (mostly women and journalists, on the theory that would afford some protection against attack) to file papers in the provincial capital Shariff Aguak to run against the younger Ampatuan. Mr. Mangudadatu remained at home.
The people in the convoy never made it. Instead, they were waylaid when they came to Ampatuan (the clan’s stronghold), dragged from their cars, and summarily executed. Survivors alleged to reporters in the Philippines that Andal Jr. led the gunmen.
Many of the victims were buried in mass graves that survivors said appeared to have been dug before the assault. Among the dead were Mangudadatu’s wife, Genalyn, and two of his sisters. At least 12 of the victims were Filipino journalists. The provincial police chief was sacked and a government spokesman said local police officers also appeared to be present during the murders.
The murders led Philippines president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to declare a state of emergency in the province. Her government is now dealing with a looming scandal, with opposition politicians asking how the murders could have happened in broad daylight and on a major road regularly patrolled by soldiers and police. The attacks appear to show the problem with her government’s tolerance of warlords.
Warlordism has been endemic for generations in the Philippines, from the main northern island of Luzon to Mindanao, the largely Muslim island that hosts at least three armed separatist groups. Mindanao also has freelance kidnap-for-ransom gangs and protection rackets tied to the large army and police presence.
The US got its first extended taste of counterinsurgency on Mindanao, where Moro fighters centered in the powerful local clans tied up US forces for 14 years as America sought to colonize the country (the Moro rebellion ended in 1913). The island’s Muslim population has had an uneasy relationship with the central government ever since, and two major separatist groups – the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) – were born there.
In 1990, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was created for the Muslim provinces of the island, ostensibly to give the local population more power over their own affairs and suck the life out of Mindanao’s various insurgencies. But in the 1990s, the Armed Forces of the Philippines continued to aggressively hunt down local militants using the paramilitary loyalists, much as similar civilian forces were created by Colombia’s military in the 1960s. One paramilitary leader who worked with the Army’s 6th Infantry Division was Andal Ampatuan.
With his close military ties, Ampatuan’s rise has been meteoric. He has served in the Philippines Congress and as the governor of Maguindanao. His family’s rise to political dominance has closely tracked that of Arroyo, who became president in 2001. Since Ampatuan first became governor in 2000, five of the province’s towns have been renamed for his relatives, including the provincial capital now known as Shariff Aguak, after his father.
In a long 2008 report on the Ampatuan clan’s influence and strength, reporter Jaileen Jimeno wrote that “only one family wields real power in Maguindanao: the Ampatuans, led by… acknowledged patriarch, Governor Andal Ampatuan.” She quotes Michael Mastura, a former congressman from Maguindanao, as saying of Ampatuan’s local power, “the word ‘impunity’ does not even suit it.”
He has cultivated the relationship with the presidential palace by running a reliable election machine in his area. Ampatuan was widely alleged to have rigged the local vote in the 2004 election, which saw ARMM vote overwhelmingly for Arroyo. In 2005, his son Zaldy became ARMM governor. In Zaldy’s last reelection, in 2008, he received 90 percent of the vote. In 2007, all 12 candidates whom Arroyo had backed for senator in Maguindanao won. After that election, local school administrator Musa Dimasidsing told a national commission on electoral fraud that he’d personally witnessed ballot stuffing. He was murdered with a shot to the head soon after. Mr. Dimasidsing’s murder remains unsolved.
In 2006, Arroyo issued Executive Order 546, which legalized the then-informal, and technically illegal, paramilitary groups of men like Ampatuan. “The (Philippines National Police) is hereby authorized to deputize the [paramilitaries] as force multipliers in the implementation of the peace and order plan,” Arroyo’s order reads. The order’s effect was to institutionalize paramilitary groups like Ampatuan’s across the country.
At least four of Ampatuan’s sons are also town mayors and most of them have gunmen of their own. Estimates of the size of his own personal militia range from 200-500. He often travels in a convoy with “technicals,” pickup trucks with 50-caliber machine guns mounted on the load bed, armed by loyalists and family members.
“Arroyo returns the favors by letting (The Ampatuans’) rule Maguindanao like a fiefdom,” Jarius Bondoc wrote in The Philippine Star. “All economic initiatives need the Ampatuans’ assent; state funds are released through them. Even the posting of police and military generals are cleared with them.”
Ampatuan has been a target of violence himself. In 2006, he survived an ambush that he said was laid by the MILF. The group denied trying to kill Ampatuan, but the former governor’s personal gunmen have often fought with the MILF. The group said it had killed 20 of Ampatuan’s militiamen in a firefight in 2006.
More violence could be in the offing. Though the government is hoping that the state of emergency will tamp down the situation, the Mangudadatus are powerful in their own right. Blood feuds in Mindanao traditionally run long, and hot.
19 November 2009
Fighting Unknown PC Problems
Hardware problems are quite difficult to tackle, worse if under Windows. There was once when installing a software, I accidentally inserted the Audio hardware diskette. Thinking it was harmless, I went on, thinking I can always "undo" everything again. How wrong was I. The next moment I restarted Windows, I got the blue screen of death. Yeah, Windows is very nasty when it comes to hardware.
Find The Culprit
Always calm down. Try to solve the problem yourself before resolving to formatting or sending to your computer dealer. First, know what's happening and the cause of it. In my case, the installation must have overwrite my old setting and replaced the wrong file. There must be a reason why Windows is acting improperly.
Logging Back On
First, try to log back on. If you can't log into Windows, don't panic. Restart the computer. When the text "Starting Windows 98..." appears, press F8. A menu will appear. Choose "Safe Mode" to continue. Safe mode will take some time to load. When you are in Windows, go to Control Panel, System. Click on the Device Manager tab. Find the faulty hardware driver and delete it. Open autoexec.bat and config.sys (both are hidden files in your root directory) with notepad. If the hardware is a CD-ROM or sound card, it will probably write add some lines. Check whether there are backup file (autoexec.bak, autoexec.b~k e.g.) since most installation will back up the 2 important files. If there is, simply replace them with the backup files. If there isn't, put "REM " in front of every line that loads the hardware.
Repairing
When you restart, your computer is probably ok, since you have deleted all instances of the hardware drivers. But the hardware isn't functioning. re-install the hardware drivers, restart and you're done! If the problem persists, your probably have a system conflict go to the next page for more.
16 November 2009
The World's Greatest Boxer
Pacquiao put on yet another dominating performance Saturday night, knocking down Cotto twice and turning his face into a bloody mess before finally stopping him at 55 seconds of the 12th round.
15 November 2009
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'Coming on June 30, 2010
Eclipse (marketed as The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and also known as Twilight 3: Eclipse) is the third installment of the Twilight film series based on Stephanie Meyer’s bestselling novel of the same name and following 2009’s New Moon (which is about to hit theaters worldwide this week). Filming for Eclipse began last August 17 and is expected wrap up on October 31, 2009.
Eclipse is currently being helmed by British director David Slade (30 Days of Night). New Moon director, Chris Weitz, was not able to return for Eclipse because of New Moon’s post production.
The film will star Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, reprising their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black, respectively. Melissa Rosenberg will be returning as screenwriter. Rachelle Lefevre, who played Victoria in the previous two installments, will not be returning due to scheduling conflicts; instead, Bryce Dallas Howard will play Victoria.Jodelle Ferland has been cast as the newly turned vampire, Bree. Other new cast members include Xavier Samuel as Riley, Jack Huston as Royce King II, Catalina Sandino Moreno as Maria, Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater, and Boo Boo Stewart as Seth Clearwater.
Source: Starmometer
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12 November 2009
Mobile Phone Viruses, Simple Measures to Protect Yourself
The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) has developed consumer tips to assist users to protect themselves against the risk of mobile phone viruses.
This guide explains what viruses are, how they spread, and what can be done about them.
This guide explains what viruses are, how they spread, and what can be done about them.
What’s a mobile phone virus?
A mobile phone virus or mobile malware - malicious mobile software - is a computer virus specifically adapted for the mobile phone environment and designed to spread from one vulnerable phone to another.
A virus is a program code that replicates by being copied to another program. Viruses can be transmitted as attachments to an email or in a download file. Some viruses take effect as soon as their code is executed; other viruses can lie dormant. A virus that replicates by resending itself as an email attachment or as a part of a network message is known as a worm.
Viruses can range from benign to quite harmful; they can erase data from the infected phone or send fake messages purporting to be from the phones owner. How prevalent are mobile phone viruses? The current security risk from mobile phone viruses and worms is low.
Until many more smart phones or PDAs are in use, and users of these phones are regularly exchanging executable files, the risk will remain low. The mobile industry takes the threat of viruses very seriously and is continually monitoring its networks and working to protect users from any future risk from mobile phone viruses. There are also some simple measures that individual users can implement to protect themselves.
What can I do to protect my phone?
The following tips can help prevent problems with viruses on your phone:
1. Switch to Bluetooth hidden mode. If your phone has Bluetooth capability, ensure that the Bluetooth capability is switched to hidden or invisible mode unless you specifically need it to be visible. This will help prevent other Bluetooth-enabled devices from finding your phone (unless you grant them the necessary permission) and will therefore help protect your phone from worms that spread using the Bluetooth wireless technology.
2. Exercise caution before opening attachments. When accepting applications sent via Bluetooth, or opening MMS attachments, exercise caution, just as you would when opening an email attachment on your PC, because they may include harmful software. Ensure the application or attachment comes from a known source, and is wary of opening files that have unfamiliar text attached to them, even if they come from someone you know.
3. Only download content from a trusted source. Trusted sources may include operator portals and other well-known brands that offer adequate protection against viruses and other harmful software. Be aware though that, as with emails, malicious or fraudulent users may be able to fake the appearance of a trusted source.
4. Consider anti-virus software. Some software is available to prevent phone viruses. You may wish to consider downloading this software.
5. Contact your phone manufacturer if concerned. If you think you have a virus, call the phone manufacturer’s care line. They can assist you confirm if it is a virus, and help fix the problem.
11 November 2009
Robert Pattinson: I'm Too Sexy for My Walk
Robert Pattinson talks about fame and the differences between making "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse".
06 November 2009
Twilight Quotes : Cullen, Edward
The largest collection of quotes from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga. The following are the quotes of Edward Cullen played by Robert Pattinson.
Forks must be a difficult place for you to live.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 2, p.48
Bella? Are you all right?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 3, p.57
Trust me.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 3, p.57
No blood, no foul.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 3, p.61
Someone has to spread the good news that we survived.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 3, p.62
I saved your life – I don’t owe you anything.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 3, p.64
You think I lifted a van off you?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 3, p.65
I hope you enjoy disappointment.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 3, p.65
It’s better if we’re not friends. Trust me.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.74
You think I regret saving your life?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.75
Bella, it’s not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.81
Bella, you are utterly absurd.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.82
The wasting of finite resources is everyone’s business.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.83
I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.84
It would be more… prudent for you not to be my friend. But I’m tired of trying to stay away from you, Bella.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.84
You really should stay away from me.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 4, p.84
I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.87
I think your friends are angry with me for stealing you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.87
I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.88
I always say too much when I’m talking to you — that’s one of the problems.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.88
You’ve got a bit of a temper, don’t you?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.90
Your boyfriend seems to think I’m being unpleasant to you — he’s debating whether or not to come break up our fight.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.90
Kryptonite doesn’t bother me, either.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.92
What if I’m not a superhero? What if I’m the bad guy?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.92
It’s healthy to ditch class now and then.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.93
Wow, you’re green, Bella.
Mike Newton, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.96
So you faint at the sight of blood?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.97
You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.99
Honestly — I’ve seen corpses with better color. I was concerned that I might have to avenge your murder.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.99
People can’t smell blood.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.100
Go sit down and look pale.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.101
Can you walk, or do you want me to carry you again?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.102
Let’s you and I not push poor Mike any further this week. We don’t want him to snap.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.103
You don’t seem seventeen.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.105
Do you think that I could be scary?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.107\
Are you frightened of me now?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.107
Don’t be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So… try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 5, p.109
Distract me, please.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.163
Sometimes I have a problem with my temper, Bella.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.164
Go stop Jessica and Angela before I have to track them down, too. I don’t think I could restrain myself if I ran into your other friends again.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.165
Do I dazzle you?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.168
I hope you were more creative this time… or are you still stealing from comic books?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.171
Only you could get into trouble in a town this small. You would have devastated their crime rate statistics for a decade, you know.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.173
I was wrong — you’re much more observant than I gave you credit for.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.173
You’re not a magnet for accidents — that’s not a broad enough classification. You are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius, it will invariably find you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.174
I’ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it’s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that’s probably just because it’s you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.174
Your number was up the first time I met you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.175
It’s harder than it should be — keeping track of you. Usually I can find someone very easily, once I’ve heard their mind before.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.175
It was very… hard — you can’t imagine how hard — for me to simply take you away, and leave them… alive.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 8, p.176
I followed your scent.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.180
The more familiar someone’s… ‘voice’ is, the farther away I can hear them.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.180
Most of the time I tune it all out — it can be very distracting. And then it’s easier to seem normal when I’m not accidentally answering someone’s thoughts rather than their words.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.180
The only guess I have is that maybe your mind doesn’t work the same way the rest of theirs do. Like your thoughts are on the AM frequency and I’m only getting FM.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.181
I hear voices in my mind and you’re worried that you’re the freak.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.181
Aren’t we past all the evasions now?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.181
I’ve never been in an accident, Bella — I’ve never even gotten a ticket. Built-in radar detector.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.182
Enough commentary on my driving.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.182
And you accused me of dazzling people — poor Jacob Black.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.184
You don’t care if I’m a monster? If I’m not human?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.184
I’d rather know what you’re thinking — even if what you’re thinking is insane.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.185
I can’t sleep.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.186
Don’t you want to know if I drink blood?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.186
They’re right to keep their distance from us. We are still dangerous.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.187
We’re usually very good at what we do. Sometimes we make mistakes. Me, for example, allowing myself to be alone with you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.187
I don’t want to be a monster.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.187
I can’t be sure, of course, but I’d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.188
I didn’t want to leave, but it was necessary. It’s a bit easier to be around you when I’m not thirsty.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.188
It makes me… anxious… to be away from you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.188
I was distracted all weekend, worrying about you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.188
Well, you asked if the sun hurt me, and it doesn’t. But I can’t go out in the sunlight — at least, not where anyone can see.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.189
Don’t you see, Bella? It’s one thing for me to make myself miserable, but a wholly other thing for you to be so involved.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.190
It’s wrong. It’s not safe. I’m dangerous, Bella — please, grasp that.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.190
You were right — I’m definitely fighting fate trying to keep you alive.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.191
I’m not always the most dangerous thing out there. Let’s leave it at that.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.192
You take everything so coolly — it’s unnatural. It makes me wonder what you’re really thinking.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.198
We try to blend in.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.199
Hadn’t you noticed? I’m breaking all the rules now.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.199
We all like to drive fast.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.199
She wants to know if we’re secretly dating. And she wants to know how you feel about me.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.200
And as for her other question… well, I’ll be listening to hear the answer to that one myself.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.201
You’re always curious.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.207
Jessica’s analyzing everything I do — she’ll break it down for you later.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.207
I warned you I would be listening.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.208
I do want to know what you’re thinking — everything. I just wish… that you wouldn’t be thinking some things.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.208
Do you truly believe that you care more for me than I do for you?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.208
You don’t see yourself very clearly, you know. I’ll admit you’re dead-on about the bad things, but you didn’t hear what every human male in this school was thinking on your first day.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.210
Trust me just this once — you are the opposite of ordinary.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.210
Of course, keeping you safe is beginning to feel like a full-time occupation that requires my constant presence.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.211
Are you referring to the fact that you can’t walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.212
Of all the things about me that could frighten you, you worry about my driving.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.213
Grizzly is Emmett’s favorite.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.215
If you’ve ever seen a bear attack on television, you should be able to visualize Emmett hunting.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.216
You need a healthy dose of fear. Nothing could be more beneficial for you
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 10, p.216
Newton’s getting on my nerves.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 11, p.222
I wasn’t intending to bring a car.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 11, p.224
Did I frighten you?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 11, p.224
When we hunt, we give ourselves over to our senses… govern less with our minds. Especially our sense of smell. If you were anywhere near me when I lost control that way…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 11, p.225
It’s twilight.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 11, p.232
It’s the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way… the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 11, p.233
So you never met anyone you wanted?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.242
If I’m going to be alone with you tomorrow, I’m going to take whatever precautions I can.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.243
Alice is the most… supportive.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.244
They don’t understand why I can’t leave you alone.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.244
I told you — you don’t see yourself clearly at all. You’re not like anyone I’ve ever known. You fascinate me.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.245
People are predictable. But you… you never do what I expect. You always take me by surprise.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.245
Be safe.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.249
Were you planning to make it out of Forks before nightfall?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.253
Are you so depressed by Forks that it’s made you suicidal?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.255
So you’re worried about the trouble it might cause me — if you don’t come home?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.255
I won’t let you get lost.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.256
I can be patient — if I make a great effort.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 12, p.257
It’s too easy to be myself with you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.262
I don’t want you to be afraid.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.262
Would you understand what I meant if I said I was only human?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.263
I’m the world’s best predator, aren’t I? Everything about me invites you in — my voice, my face, even my smell. As if I need any of that!
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.263
I promise… I swear not to hurt you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.264
Please forgive me. I can control myself. You caught me off guard. But I’m on my best behavior now.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.265
So where were we, before I behaved so rudely?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.265
How easily frustrated I am.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.265
That is something to be afraid of, indeed. Wanting to be with me. That’s really not in your best interest.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.266
I’m essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.266
It’s not only your company I crave! Never forget that. Never forget I am more dangerous to you than I am to anyone else.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.266
Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.268
When you walked past me, I could have ruined everything Carlisle has built for us, right then and there. If I hadn’t been denying my thirst for the last, well, too many years, I wouldn’t have been able to stop myself.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.269
To me, it was like you were some kind of demon, summoned straight from my own personal hell to ruin me.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.269
In that one hour, I thought of a hundred different ways to lure you from the room with me, to get you alone. And I fought them each back, thinking of my family, what I could do to them. I had to run out, to get away before I could speak the words that would make you follow…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.270
I so very nearly took you then. There was only one other frail human there — so easily dealt with.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.270
Who were you, an insignificant little girl, to chase me from the place I wanted to be?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.271
It was unquestionably a complication that I couldn’t simply read your thoughts to know what your reaction was to me. I wasn’t used to having to go to such circuitous measures, listening to your words in Jessica’s mind… her mind isn’t very original, and it was annoying to have to stoop to that. And then I couldn’t know if you really meant what you said. It was all extremely irritating.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.271
At the time, all I could think was, ‘Not her.’
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.272
Bella, I couldn’t live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don’t know how it’s tortured me. The thought of you, still, white, cold… to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you see through my pretenses… it would be unendurable. You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.274
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.274
What a sick, masochistic lion.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.274
It was just how close you were. Most humans instinctively shy away from us, are repelled by our alienness… I wasn’t expecting you to come so close. And the smell of your throat.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.275
The blush on your cheeks is lovely.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.275
Be very still.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.276
I wish you could feel the… complexity… the confusion… I feel. That you could understand.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.277
I’ve told you, on the one hand, the hunger — the thirst — that, deplorable creature that I am, I feel for you. And I think you can understand that, to an extent. Though as you are not addicted to any illegal substances, you probably can’t empathize completely.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.278
I’m not used to feeling so human. Is it always like this?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.278
I don’t know how to be close to you. I don’t know if I can.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.278
I have human instincts — they may be buried deep, but they’re there.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.278
I’ll show you how I travel in the forest.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.279
Come on, little coward, climb on my back.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.279
You’re as white as a ghost — no, you’re as white as me!
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.281
Running is second nature to me, it’s not something I have to think about.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.281
I’m stronger than I thought. It’s nice to know.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.283
Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.283
Bella, I’ve already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I’m not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can’t even walk straight. Besides, friends don’t let friends drive drunk.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.284
You’re intoxicated by my very presence.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.284
I have better reflexes.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 13, p.285
I don’t remember it well — it was a very long time ago, and human memories fade. I do remember how it felt, when Carlisle saved me. It’s not an easy thing, not something you could forget.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.287
It was difficult. Not many of us have the restraint necessary to accomplish it. But Carlisle has always been the most humane, the most compassionate of us… I don’t think you could find his equal throughout all of history.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.288
She saw something in his face that made her strong enough.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.289
She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.290
Do you think I could walk down the street in the sunlight without causing traffic accidents? There’s a reason why we chose the Olympic Peninsula, one of the most sunless places in the world. It’s nice to be able to go out side in the day. You wouldn’t believe how tired you can get of nighttime in eighty-odd years.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.291
I was curious about you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.292
You’re interesting when you sleep. You talk.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.293
You miss your mother. You worry about her. And when it rains, the sound makes you restless. You used to talk about home a lot, but it’s less often now. Once you said, ‘It’s too green.’
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.294
If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.294
Should your father know I’m here?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.294
Mind over matter.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.300
In the last hundred years or so, I never imagined anything like this. I didn’t believe I would ever find someone I wanted to be with… in another way than my brothers and sisters. And then to find, even though it’s all new to me, that I’m good at it… at being with you…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.300
It’s not easy. But this afternoon, I was still… undecided. I am sorry about that, it was unforgivable for me to behave so.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.301
I wasn’t sure if I was strong enough… And while there was still that possibility that I might be… overcome, I was… susceptible. Until I made up my mind that I was strong enough, that there was no possibility at all that I would… that I ever could…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.301
I’ve had the scent of you in my head all day, and I’ve grown amazingly desensitized. If I’m away from you for any length of time, I’ll have to start over again. Not quite from scratch, though, I think.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.302
Bring on the shackles — I’m your prisoner.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.302
Isn’t it supposed to be like this? The glory of first love, and all that. It’s incredible, isn’t it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.302
I was surprised by the flare of resentment, almost fury, that I felt — I didn’t recognize what it was at first.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.303
I wrestled all night, while watching you sleep, with the chasm between what I knew was right, moral, ethical, and what I wanted. I knew that if I continued to ignore you as I should, or if I left for a few years, till you were gone, that someday you would say yes to Mike, or someone like him. It made me angry.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.303
The feeling that coursed through me then was unnerving, staggering. And I knew I couldn’t ignore you any longer.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.303
I’m new at this; you’re resurrecting the human in me, and everything feels stronger because it’s fresh.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.304
For almost ninety years I’ve walked among my kind, and yours… all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren’t alive yet.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.304
You only have to risk your life every second you spend with me, that’s surely not much. You only have to turn your back on nature, on humanity… what’s that worth?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.305
You are a terrible actress — I’d say that career path is out for you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.305
Just because I’m resisting the wine doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the bouquet.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.306
But you see, just because we’ve been… dealt a certain hand… it doesn’t mean that we can’t choose to rise above — to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.307
I won’t leave you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.309
I keep thinking it will get less frustrating, not hearing your thoughts. But it just gets worse and worse.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.309
It’s just that you are so soft, so fragile. I have to mind my actions every moment that we’re together so that I don’t hurt you. I could kill you quite easily, Bella, simply by accident.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.310
You don’t realize how incredibly breakable you are. I can never, never afford to lose any kind of control when I’m with you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.310
I may not be a human, but I am a man.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 14, p.311
Your hair looks like a haystack… but I like it.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.312
You’re not usually this confused in the morning.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.313
You are my life now.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.314
What would you say to meeting my family?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.316
Are you going to tell Charlie I’m your boyfriend or not?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.317
You are utterly indecent — no one should look so tempting, it’s not fair.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.319
You are so absurd.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.319
Shall I explain how you are tempting me?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.319
What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.319
And you’re worried, not because you’re headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won’t approve of you, correct?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.320
You inspired this one.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.326
They like you, you know.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.326
Actually, Esme wouldn’t care if you had a third eye and webbed feet. All this time she’s been worried about me, afraid that there was something missing from my essential makeup, that I was too young when Carlisle changed me… She’s ecstatic. Every time I touch you, she just about chokes with satisfaction.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.327
Alice has her own way of looking at things.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.327
Finally, a rational response! I was beginning to think you had no sense of self-preservation at all.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.328
No coffins, no piled skulls in the corners; I don’t even think we have cobwebs… what a disappointment this must be for you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.329
It’s the one place we never have to hide.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 15, p.329
People swim the Channel all the time, Bella.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 16, p.337
I know that at some point, something I tell you or something you see is going to be too much. And then you’ll run away from me, screaming as you go. I won’t stop you. I want this to happen, because I want you to be safe. And yet, I want to be with you. The two desires are impossible to reconcile…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 16, p.340
I can’t adequately describe the struggle; it took Carlisle two centuries of torturous effort to perfect his self-control. Now he is all but immune to the scent of human blood, and he is able to do the work he loves without agony. He finds a great deal of peace there, at the hospital…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 16, p.340
Because I knew the thoughts of my prey, I could pass over the innocent and pursue only the evil. If I followed a murderer down a dark alley where he stalked a young girl — if I saved her, then surely I wasn’t so terrible.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 16, p.343
I was prepared to feel… relieved. Having you know about everything, not needing to keep secrets from you. But I didn’t expect to feel more than that. I like it. It makes me… happy.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 16, p.344
You really shouldn’t have said that.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 16, p.345
We have to wait for thunder to play ball — you’ll see why.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 16, p.347
I could walk home faster than this truck moves.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.348
You smell so good in the rain.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.361
It seems I’m going to have to tamper with your memory.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.361
Bella, you don’t really think I would hit a tree, do you?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.362
Damn it, Bella! You’ll be the death of me, I swear you will.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.363
Now let’s get out of here before I do something really stupid.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.363
Don’t forget to close your eyes.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.364
I’m never angry with you — how could I be? Brave, trusting… warm as you are.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.365
I infuriate myself. The way I can’t seem to keep from putting you in danger. My very existence puts you at risk. Sometimes I truly hate myself.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.365
I love you. It’s a poor excuse for what I’m doing, but it’s still true.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.366
Bella was being unintentionally funny.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.367
Yes, stay very still, keep quiet, and don’t move from my side, please.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.373
I’m sorry, Bella. It was stupid, irresponsible, to expose you like this. I’m so sorry.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.374
We have to get you away from here — far away — now.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 18, p.381
I saw his mind. Tracking is his passion, his obsession — and he wants her, Alice — her, specifically. He begins the hunt tonight
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 18, p.382
You didn’t see — you don’t understand. Once he commits to a hunt, he’s unshakable. We’d have to kill him.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 18, p.383
Bella, please just do this my way, just this once.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 18, p.386
Shut up, Emmett.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 18, p.388
If you let anything happen to yourself— anything at all — I’m holding you personally responsible. Do you understand that?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 18, p.388
Don’t worry. He’ll forgive you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 19, p.396
If you didn’t smell so appallingly luscious, he might not have bothered. But when I defended you… well, that made it a lot worse. He’s not used to being thwarted, no matter how insignificant the object. He thinks of himself as a hunter and nothing else. His existence is consumed with tracking, and a challenge is all he asks of life. Suddenly we’ve presented him with a beautiful challenge — a large clan of strong fighters all bent on protecting the one vulnerable element. You wouldn’t believe how euphoric he is now. It’s his favorite game, and we’ve just made it his most exciting game ever.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 19, p.397
I don’t think I have any choice but to kill him now. Carlisle won’t like it.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 19, p.398
Bella, don’t you dare waste time worrying about me. Your only concern is keeping yourself safe and — please, please — trying not to be reckless.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 19, p.398
As soon as Bella is clear, we hunt him.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 19, p.401
I told you not to worry about anything but yourself.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 20, p.417
It’s like you’ve taken half my self away with you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 20, p.418
I will make you safe first.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 20, p.418
Could you believe that, despite everything I’ve put you through, I love you, too?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 20, p.418
You can sleep, sweetheart, I’ll carry you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 23, p.457
I was almost too late. I could have been too late.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.459
You fell down two flights of stairs and through a window. You have to admit, it could happen.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.459
They gave you a few transfusions. I didn’t like it — it made you smell all wrong for a while.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.460
It was impossible… to stop. Impossible. But I did. I must love you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.460
You should have waited for me, you should have told me.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.460
Oh, a sadistic vampire, intent on torturing her to death, sure, no problem, she runs off to meet him. An IV, on the other hand…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.462
Alice had a little bit too much fun fabricating evidence.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.463
I would stay in Forks, Bella. Or somewhere like it. Someplace where I couldn’t hurt you anymore.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.470
Now relax before I call the nurse back to sedate you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.471
I’m not going anywhere. I’ll be right here as long as you need me.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.471
I don’t seem to be strong enough to stay away from you, so I suppose that you’ll get your way… whether it kills you or not.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.473
I’ve had almost ninety years to think about this, and I’m still not sure.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.474
It’s possible to take bravery to the point where it becomes insanity.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.475
That’s how it’s supposed to happen. How it should happen. How it would have happened if I didn’t exist — and I shouldn’t exist.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.476
I’m hardly a lottery prize.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.476
Bella, we’re not having this discussion anymore. I refuse to damn you to an eternity of night and that’s the end of it.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.476
You need rest. All this arguing isn’t good for you.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.477
I told you I’m not going anywhere. Don’t be afraid. As long as it makes you happy, I’ll be here.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.478
That’s the beautiful thing about being human. Things change.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.478
Don’t worry about that now, Bella. You can argue with me when you wake up.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.479\
I’m sorry if there’s been some kind of miscommunication, but Bella is unavailable tonight. To be perfectly honest, she’ll be unavailable every night, as far as anyone besides myself is concerned. No offense. And I’m sorry about your evening.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.483
Don’t be difficult, Bella.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.484
When someone wants to kill you, you’re brave as a lion — and then when someone mentions dancing…
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.486
Bella, I won’t let anything hurt you — not even yourself. I won’t let go of you once, I promise.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.486
He called you pretty. That’s practically an insult, the way you look right now. You’re much more than beautiful.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.493
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.495
I don’t want my presence to take anything away from you, if I can help it. I want you to be human. I want your life to continue as it would have if I’d died in nineteen-eighteen like I should have.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.495
You thought that would be a black tie occasion, did you?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.496
I’d rather treat it like a joke, though, than believe you’re serious.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.497
So ready for this to be the end, for this to be the twilight of your life, though your life has barely started. You’re ready to give up everything.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.497
I’m not worth it.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.497
You can’t really believe that I would give in so easily.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.498
Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.498
I will stay with you — isn’t that enough?
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.498
Yes, it is enough. Enough for forever.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Epilogue, p.498
So, as discussed, I am not allowed to wish you a happy birthday, is that correct?
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.9
Be good, please.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.16
Your wish, my command.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.16
You know, I’ve never had much patience with Romeo.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.17
Mistake after mistake. Could he have destroyed his own happiness any more thoroughly?
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.17
Last spring, when you were… nearly killed… Of course I was trying to focus on finding you alive, but part of my mind was making contingency plans. Like I said, it’s not as easy for me as it is for a human.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.18
Well, I wasn’t going to live without you. But I wasn’t sure how to do it—I knew Emmett and Jasper would never help… so I was thinking maybe I would go to Italy and do something to provoke the Volturi.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.19
Anyway, you don’t irritate the Volturi. Not unless you want to die—or whatever it is we do.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.20
I’ll never put you in danger again, so it’s a moot point.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.20
Bella, the last real birthday any of us had was Emmett in 1935. Cut us a little slack, and don’t be too difficult tonight. They’re all very excited.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.23
Bella, you gave yourself a paper cut — that hardly deserves the death penalty.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 2, p.44
Don’t try to take any of this on yourself, Bella. It will only make me more disgusted with myself.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 2, p.45
Don’t be melodramatic, please.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 2, p.45
You can’t have it both ways—either you want people to ignore your birthday or you don’t. One or the other.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 2, p.45
You’re greedy tonight.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 2, p.51
You’re overestimating my self-control.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 2, p.52
Bella, I don’t want you to come with me.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.69
Of course, I’ll always love you… in a way. But what happened the other night made me realize that it’s time for a change. Because I’m… tired of pretending to be something I’m not, Bella. I am not human
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.70
You’re not good for me, Bella.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.70
I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.71
Don’t worry. You’re human—your memory is no more than a sieve. Time heals all wounds for your kind.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.71
Well, I won’t forget. But my kind… we’re very easily distracted.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.72
You smell just exactly the same as always. So maybe this is hell. I don’t care. I’ll take it.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 20, p.452
They have a name for someone who smells the way Bella does to me. They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 22, p.490
You should probably know that I’m breaking the rules right now. Well, not technically, since he said I was never to walk through his door again, and I came in the window… But, still, the intent was clear.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.503
I wasn’t hunting for food… I was actually trying my hand at… tracking. I’m not very good at it.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.505
The odds are always stacked against us. Mistake after mistake. I’ll never criticize Romeo again.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.508
I thought I’d explained it clearly before. Bella, I can’t live in a world where you don’t exist.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.509
I’m a good liar, Bella. I have to be.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.509
You weren’t going to let go. I could see that. I didn’t want to do it—it felt like it would kill me to do it—but I knew that if I couldn’t convince you that I didn’t love you anymore, it would just take you that much longer to get on with your life. I hoped that, if you thought I’d moved on, so would you.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.509
After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.510
I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn’t want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept—as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you!
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.510
You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn’t want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.510
Only you could be more important than what I wanted… what I needed. What I want and need is to be with you, and I know I’ll never be strong enough to leave again. I have too many excuses to stay—thank heaven for that! It seems you can’t be safe, no matter how many miles I put between us.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.513
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason… And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.514
My heart hasn’t beat in almost ninety years, but this was different. It was like my heart was gone—like I was hollow. Like I’d left everything that was inside me here with you.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.515
I cannot be without you, but I will not destroy your soul.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.518
You will always be the most beautiful thing in my world. Of course… If you outgrew me—if you wanted something more—I would understand that, Bella. I promise I wouldn’t stand in your way if you wanted to leave me.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.519
I’ll earn your trust back somehow. It’s my final act.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.523
Your hold is permanent and unbreakable. Never doubt that.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.524
If there was only some way to make you see that I can’t leave you. Time, I suppose, will be the way to convince you.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.524
You, at least, made an effort. You got up in the morning, tried to be normal for Charlie, followed the pattern of your life. When I wasn’t actively tracking, I was… totally useless. I couldn’t be around my family—I couldn’t be around anyone. I’m embarrassed to admit that I more or less curled up into a ball and let the misery have me. It was much more pathetic than hearing voices. And, of course, you know I do that, too.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.528
You’re wounding my ego, Bella. I just proposed to you, and you think it’s a joke.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.540
Well, I’m nearly a hundred and ten. It’s time I settled down.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.540
Because she’d rather you became one of the eternal damned than get married.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.541
So eager for eternal damnation.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.546
Charlie… is probably not going to kill you, but he’s thinking about it.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Epilogue, p.553
Thank you. I will never be able to tell you how grateful I am. I will owe you for the rest of my… existence.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Epilogue, p.557
I’m a quick learner, Jacob Black, and I don’t make the same mistake twice. I’m here until she orders me away.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Epilogue, p.558
I’ll let you pay me back, if that makes you happy. If you want, I can charge you interest.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.22
There’s no hurry. I won’t let anyone hurt you. You can take all the time you need.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.25
Monsters are not a joke, Bella.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.25
You know it’s out of the question for you to be around a werewolf unprotected, Bella. And it would break the treaty if any of us cross over onto their land. Do you want us to start a war?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.28
If we could bottle your luck, we’d have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.31
I’ll never forgive myself for leaving you. Not if I live a hundred thousand years.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.33
If I’d never left, you wouldn’t feel the need to go risk your life to comfort a dog.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.33
I don’t know how to phrase this properly. It’s going to sound cruel, I suppose. But I’ve come too close to losing you in the past. I know what it feels like to think I have. I am not going to tolerate anything dangerous.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.33
Please make a conscious effort to keep yourself safe. I’ll do everything I can, but I would appreciate a little help.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.33
Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 1, p.34
You aren’t the only one who’s been trapped in this house, you know.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 2, p.49
The outside world holds no interest for me without you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 2, p.49
In that instant when they shift from one form to the other, they don’t really even exist. The future can’t hold them…
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 2, p.63
Shut your window if you want me to stay away tonight. I’ll understand.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 2, p.64
Your mother has a very interesting mind. Almost childlike, but very insightful. She sees things differently than other people.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 3, p.66
If I asked you to do something, would you trust me?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 3, p.75
It’s nothing, Bella. Jacob just has a good memory, that’s all.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 3, p.82
I wasn’t about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 3, p.88
I’d wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I’d run you back to the scene of the accident, and we’d stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 3, p.88
I’ll be back so soon you won’t have time to miss me. Look after my heart — I’ve left it with you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 4, p.95
Do you have any idea how close I came to crossing the line today? To breaking the treaty and coming after you? Do you know what that would have meant?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 6, p.141
You aren’t exactly the best judge of what is or isn’t dangerous.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 6, p.141
Well… don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 6, p.144
I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 8, p.186
I go a little berserk when I try to leave you. I don’t think I’ll go so far again. It’s not worth it.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 8, p.189
Must I always be the responsible one?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 8, p.192
I prefer brunettes.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 8, p.194
You’re quite adorable when you’re jealous. It’s surprisingly enjoyable.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 8, p.194
You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 8, p.195
Holding grudges is not one of your many talents.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 9, p.209
Are you trying to distract me? It’s working.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 10, p.224
It gets easier. After a few decades, everyone you know is dead. Problem solved.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 10, p.226
Jasper is sort of an expert on young vampires.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 10, p.230
Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren’t in love with me?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 10, p.230
I was rather under the impression that you’d promised to ask my permission to go to some kind of werewolf soirée tonight.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 10, p.230
I do have a bit more insight into his probable answer than most people would, it’s true.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 10, p.231
There are things between my hands right now that I can’t live without. You could take care of them.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 10, p.234
You look… sexy.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 10, p.235
Besides… the more time I spend with you, the more human emotions seem comprehensible to me. I’m discovering that I can sympathize with Heathcliff in ways I didn’t think possible before.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 11, p.265
How can someone so tiny by so annoying?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.268
Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.270
Not one of us had a choice. You’ve seen what it’s done… to Rosalie especially. We’ve all struggled, trying to reconcile ourselves with something we had no control over. I won’t let it be that way for you. You will have a choice.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.271
You aren’t going through with this because a sword is hanging over your head. We will take care of the problems, and I will take care of you. When we’re through it, and there is nothing forcing your hand, then you can decide to join me, if you still want to. But not because you’re afraid. You won’t be forced into this.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.271
It’s the thought that counts. I ought to know.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.272
If I answer your question, will you then explain your question?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.273
If there were any way for me to become human for you — no matter what the price was, I would pay it.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.273
And the sound of your heart. It’s the most significant sound in my world.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.274
You’ll always be my Bella, you’ll just be a little more durable.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.274
If I had found you, there isn’t a doubt in my mind how I would have proceeded. I was that boy, who would have — as soon as I discovered that you were what I was looking for — gotten down on one knee and endeavored to secure your hand. I would have wanted you for eternity, even when the word didn’t have quite the same connotations.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 12, p.277
Jasper shows up, covered in battle scars, towing this little freak who greets them all by name, knows everything about them, and wants to know which room she can move into.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 13, p.302
Does it occur to anyone else that the only possible threat in the area that would call for the creation of an army is… us?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 13, p.303
Damn it. Damn Laurent to the deepest pit of hell where he belongs.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 13, p.307
I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that’s not actually the case.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 14, p.315
Human blood makes us the strongest, though only fractionally. Jasper’s been thinking about cheating — adverse as he is to the idea, he’s nothing if not practical — but he won’t suggest it. He knows what Carlisle will say.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 14, p.317
We aren’t going to change who we are.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 14, p.317
Do me a favor and challenge him to an arm-wrestling match. It would be a good experience for him.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 14, p.317
It’s not easy to ignore someone when he’s shouting.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 14, p.319
I’m not going to kill you now, because it would upset Bella.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 15, p.340
But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don’t care whose fault it is; I don’t care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 15, p.340
I’ll be fighting for her, too. You should know that. I’m not taking anything for granted, and I’ll be fighting twice as hard as you will.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 15, p.341
She is mine. I didn’t say I would fight fair.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 15, p.341
Everyone will come. They’re all dying to see the inside of the reclusive Cullens’ mystery house.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 17, p.367
You’re very perceptive today. It’s impressive.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 18, p.389
Prepare yourselves — they’ve been holding out on us.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 18, p.391
To think it’s come to this, though! Trusting werewolves!
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 18, p.409
The way you regard me is ludicrous.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.413
Jacob is second in command. Did he never tell you that? His orders have to be followed, too.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.415
I got a fascinating look into the pack’s mind last night. It was better than a soap opera. I had no idea how complex the dynamic is with such a large pack. The pull of the individual against the plural psyche… Absolutely fascinating.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.416
The imprinting compulsion is one of the strangest things I’ve ever witnessed in my life, and I’ve
seen some strange things.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.418
The pack mind is mesmerizing. All thinking together and then separately at the same time. There’s so much to read!
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.419
Never be afraid to tell me how you feel, Bella. If this is what you need… You are my first priority.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.422
You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That’s how compromise is supposed to work.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.422
I’m the only one who has permission to hold you hostage, remember?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.427
It was mind-boggling, but, somehow, he still seemed unsure of his hold on me.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.427
He trusts us not to try to kill him. That’s about it, though.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.428
He thinks my translations leave something to be desired. What he actually thought was, ‘That’s really stupid. What is there to be worried about?’ I edited, because I thought it was rude.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 19, p.430
For this one night, could we try to forget everything besides just you and me? It seems like I can never get enough time like that. I need to be with you. Just you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.435
But I thought it was a good representation. It’s hard and cold. And it throws rainbows in the sunlight.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.439
My heart is just as silent. And it, too, is yours.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.439
Listen to your heart fly. It’s fluttering like a hummingbird’s wings. Are you all right?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.440
I’ve already made the largest concession by far and away — I’ve agreed to take your life away against my better judgment. And that ought to entitle me to a few compromises on your part.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.440
I didn’t realize there was anything else you wanted besides being transformed into a monster yourself. I’m extremely curious.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.441
Tell me what you want, and you can have it.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.442
I feel like there’s a line behind me, jockeying for position, waiting for me to make a big enough mistake. . . . You’re too desirable for your own good.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.445
Do you have any idea how painful it is, trying to refuse you when you plead with me this way?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.448
Bella. Would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.450
Do you get the feeling that everything is backward? Traditionally, shouldn’t you be arguing my side, and I yours?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.451
You know that I’ve stolen, I’ve lied, I’ve coveted… my virtue is all I have left.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.454
Yes, but you’re such a bad liar that it doesn’t really count. Nobody believes you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.454
I had no right to want you — but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what’s become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.454
There is only one thing I want to speed up, and the rest can wait forever… but for that, it’s true, your impatient human hormones are my most powerful ally at this point.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.455
We’ll go to Vegas — you can wear old jeans and we’ll go to the chapel with the drive-through window. I just want it to be official — that you belong to me and no one else.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.456
You are the most dangerous creature I’ve ever met.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.457
I supposed it’s a little outdated. Old-fashioned, just like me.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.458
Isabella Swan? I promise to love you forever — every single day of forever. Will you marry me?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 20, p.460
You’re about to make my life harder than it needs to be, Alice.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 21, p.464
I’ve got a first aid kit. I had a feeling I might need it.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 21, p.470
I lived through an entire twenty-four hours thinking that you were dead, Bella. That changed the way I look at a lot of things.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 21, p.471
I don’t see you making yourself useful. Why don’t you go fetch a space heater or something?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.489
You don’t have the faintest idea how much I wish I could do what you’re doing for her, mongrel.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.492
Do you think you could attempt to control your thoughts?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.494
You have no idea how loud your little fantasies are. It’s like you’re shouting them at me.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.495
My mind doesn’t work quite the same as yours. I can think of many more things at one time. Of course, that means that I’m always able to think of you, always able to wonder if that’s where her mind is, when she’s quiet and thoughtful.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.496
She worries that you’re unhappy. Not that you don’t know that. Not that you don’t use that.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.496
Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.497
It’s an uncomfortable truce, isn’t it?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.497
After I’d accepted that she was more or less safe with you — as safe as Bella ever is — it seemed best to stop driving her to extremes.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.498
She reminded me of what it did to her when I left — what it still does to her when I leave. She feels horrible about bringing that up, but she’s right. I’ll never be able to make up for that, but I’ll never stop trying anyway.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.499
You think of me as a… living stone — hard and cold. That’s true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There’s no going back…
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.500
As long as she wants me, I’m here.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.502
You see, Jacob, you might leave her someday. Like Sam and Emily, you wouldn’t have a choice. I would always be waiting in the wings, hoping for that to happen.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.502
You know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.503
I can only hear if you think of it.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.503
Would you like me to help you sleep, Jacob?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.504
Don’t tempt me too far, wolf. My patience isn’t that perfect.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 22, p.504
But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 23, p.509
All of my best nights have happened since I met you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 23, p.511
Near the end, though, you started mumbling some nonsense about ‘Jacob, my Jacob.’ Your Jacob enjoyed that quite a lot.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 23, p.512
You love me more than I deserve.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 23, p.513
A hundred years from now, when you’ve gained enough perspective to really appreciate the answer, I will explain it to you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 23, p.513
Truce over.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 23, p.514
I never promised to fight fair. And he deserves to know.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 23, p.514
I won’t go far, but I won’t listen, either. I know you don’t want an audience, no matter which way you decide to go.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 23, p.521
And I thought I fought dirty. He makes me look like the patron saint of ethics. I’m not mad at you, love. Jacob’s more cunning than I gave him credit for. I do wish you hadn’t asked him, though.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.532
It’s just that he would have kissed you anyway — even if you hadn’t fallen for it — and now I don’t have an excuse to break his face. I would have really enjoyed that, too.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.532
Bella, did you really believe he was that noble? That he would go out in a flame of glory just to clear the way for me?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.532
You’re such a bad liar, you’ll believe anyone who has the least bit of skill.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.533
But you are human, Bella. And, as much as I might wish otherwise, so is he… There are holes in your life that I can’t fill. I understand that.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.533
When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark — on both of you. I’m not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can’t blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn’t let me escape the consequences.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.534
I can be noble, Bella. I’m not going to make you choose between us. Just be happy, and you can have whatever part of me you want, or none at all, if that’s better. Don’t let any debt you feel you owe me influence your decision.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.534
We will try, Bella. I’ll make good on my promise. But I’d much rather it wasn’t in reaction to Jacob Black.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.536
We’ve got skill, training, and surprise on our side. It will be over very soon. If I didn’t truly believe that, I would be down there now — and you’d be here, chained to a tree or something along those lines.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 24, p.537
Bella, can you drop the rock, please? Carefully. Don’t hurt yourself.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 25, p.556
You don’t have to be afraid, Bella. You’re safe. I won’t hurt you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 25, p.556
It’s going to be all right, Bella. I know you’re frightened now, but it’s over. No one is going to hurt you. I won’t touch you. I won’t hurt you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 25, p.557
Are you… Aren’t you afraid of me?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 25, p.557
I didn’t want you to see that. See me like that. I know I must have terrified you.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 25, p.558
I just beheaded and dismembered a sentient creature not twenty yards from you. That doesn’t bother you?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 25, p.558
You know that you nearly gave me a heart attack? Not the easiest thing to do, that.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 25, p.559
The Volturi do not honor truces with werewolves.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 25, p.564
If it hurts you so much, how can it possibly be the right thing for you?
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 27, p.610
Bella, I see what you’re doing. You’re trying to make everyone else happy. And I don’t care about anyone else’s feelings. I only need you to be happy. Don’t worry about breaking the news to Alice. I’ll take care of it. I promise she won’t make you feel guilty.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 27, p.617
We’re doing this your way. Because my way doesn’t work. I call you stubborn, but look at what I’ve done. I’ve clung with such idiotic obstinacy to my idea of what’s best for you, though it’s only hurt you. Hurt you so deeply, time and time again. I don’t trust myself anymore. You can have happiness your way. My way is always wrong.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 27, p.617
You don’t fight fair.
Edward Cullen, Eclipse, Chapter 27, p.620
Stop fidgeting, Bella. Please try to remember that you’re not confessing to a murder here.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 1, p.13
Charlie, I realize that I’ve gone about this out of order. Traditionally, I should have asked you first. I mean no disrespect, but since Bella has already said yes and I don’t want to diminish her choice in the matter, instead of asking you for her hand, I’m asking for your blessing. We’re getting married, Charlie. I love her more than anything in the world, more than my own life, and – by some miracle – she loves me that way, too. Will you give us your blessing?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 1, p.15
Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 2, p.24
It’s not right! I don’t want you to have to make sacrifices for me. I want to give you things, not take things away from you. I don’t want to steal your future.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 2, p.28
I’ve been waiting a century to marry you, Miss Swan.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 2, p.28
Oh, for the love of all that’s holy!
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 2, p.28
Let me introduce you to my wife.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 4, p.54
Enjoying the party, Mrs. Cullen?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 4, p.55
I’m not surprised Mike’s having difficulty with improper thoughts about a married woman. I am disappointed that Alice didn’t make sure you were forced to look in a mirror.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 4, p.56
Go away, Alice.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 4, p.70
You’re awfully small to be so hugely irritating.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 4, p.71
I’m nothing if not thorough.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.78
I’m sure you’d like a human minute or two… It was a long journey.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.81
Don’t take too long, Mrs. Cullen.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.81
I wouldn’t use the word beautiful. Not with you standing here in comparison.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.85
Stop acting like I’m not a monster for having agreed to this.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.88
Do not say the word fine. If you value my sanity, do not say that you are fine.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.90
Did you expect this, Bella? Were you anticipating that I would hurt you? Were you thinking it would be worse? Do you consider the experiment a success because you can walk away from it? No broken bones – that equals a victory?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.92
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.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.93
I can’t ignore the evidence, Bella. Or your history of trying to let me off the hook when I make mistakes.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.94
We’re just lucky it was the pillows and not you.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.95
I will not make love with you until you’ve been changed. I will never hurt you again.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.98
I will not make any deals with you.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.101
Why are you doing this to me?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.102
You are making me insane, Bella.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.103
You are so human, Bella. Ruled by your hormones.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.103
You haven’t said a word in your sleep since we got here. If it weren’t for the snoring, I’d worry you were slipping into a coma.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.104
Do you want me to sing to you? I’ll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.105
You seem to be extraordinarily unobservant when your attention is otherwise involved.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.109
You look so guilty – like you’ve committed a crime.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.110
So you seduced your all-too-willing husband. That’s not a capital offense.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.110
Breakfast time for the human?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.110
Sex was the key all along? Why didn’t I think of that? I could have saved myself a lot of arguments.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.111
You are so human.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.111
Real estate is a good investment.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.112
Very honeymoonish.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.115
I don’t know… I’ve already mangled the headboard in the other room beyond repair – maybe if we limit the destruction to one area of the house, Esme might invite us back someday.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.115
I think it might be safer if it’s premeditated, rather than if I wait for you to assault me again.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.116
Maybe it would be more polite to wait until we’re alone. You may not notice me tearing the furniture apart, but it would probably scare them.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 6, p.116
Bella! I’m losing my mind over here.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.123
Are you trying to pass this illness off as PMS?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.123
We’re going to get that thing out before it can hurt any part of you. Don’t be scared. I won’t let it hurt you.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.133
I’m not ready for you to kill me yet, Jacob Black. You’ll have to have a little patience.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 9, p.176
Even you, Jacob Black, cannot hate me as much as I hate myself.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 9, p.179
You know her, Jacob. You connect to her on a level that I don’t even understand. You are part of her, and she is part of you.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 9, p.180
I don’t care about anything but keeping her alive. If it’s a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants. She can have puppies, if that’s what it takes.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 9, p.180
The moment Bella’s heart stops beating, I will be begging for you to kill me.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 9, p.183
No. It’s not better. But I’m not going to force her to do anything that makes her unhappy now. Whatever happens, this makes her feel better. I’ll deal with the rest afterward.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 15, p.299
I’ll deal with whatever comes. I won’t cause her pain now.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 15, p.301
It… the baby likes the sound of your voice.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 16, p.325
Go, Jacob. Get away from here.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 16, p.328
I’m not going to pretend that I understand why Bella is unable to let go of you, but I do know that she does not behave this way to hurt you. She suffers a great deal over the pain she’s inflicting on you, and on me, by asking you to stay.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 17, p.338
I’m sorry. I am truly sorry for the pain this causes you, Jacob. Though you hate me, I must admit that I don’t feel the same about you. I think of you as a… a brother in many ways. A comrade in arms, at the very least. I regret your suffering more than you realize. But Bella is going to survive, and I know that’s what really matters to you.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 17, p.341
I want your permission to deviate from what we agreed to in our treaty with Ephraim. I want you to grant us an exception. I want your permission to save her life. You know I’ll do it anyway, but I don’t want to break faith with you if there is any way to avoid it. We never intended to go back on our word, and we don’t do it lightly now. I want your understanding, Jacob, because you know exactly why we do this. I want the alliance between our families to survive when this is over.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 17, p.342
He has one of the purest, sincerest, kindest minds I’ve ever heard. You’re lucky to have his thoughts to share.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 17, p.343
Bella, I love you. Bella, I’m sorry.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 19, p.380
I’m sure she’ll surprise me. She always does.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 19, p.381
Um… carefully, Bella. Ow.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.393
Don’t panic, love. You’re just a bit stronger than I am for the moment.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.393
Now it’s your turn to not break me.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.395
Let’s hunt, Bella.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.398
I was under the impression that you’d always wanted to see me hunt.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.398
I was rather hoping that I’d be able to hear your mind, now that it is more similar to my own. And here I am, as frustrated as ever, wondering what could possibly be going on inside your head.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.406
Bella, you have never been merely pretty.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.406
That was quite graceful – even for a vampire.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 21, p.409
Follow me… if you can.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 21, p.412
I’m not laughing at you, Bella. I’m laughing because I am in shock. And I am in shock because I am completely amazed.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 21, p.420
You shouldn’t be able to do any of this. You shouldn’t be so… so rational. You shouldn’t be able to stand here discussing this with me calmly and coolly. And, much more than any of that, you should not have been able to break off mid-hunt with the scent of human blood in the air. Even mature vampires have difficulty with that – we’re always careful of where we hunt so as not to put ourselves in the path of temptation. Bella, you’re behaving like you’re decades rather than days old.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 21, p.420
What wouldn’t I give to be able to see into your mind for just this one moment.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 21, p.420
You did perfectly fine. It’s just that… it was much more difficult for me to watch than it should have been. It goes against the grain, letting you wrestle with lion. I was having an anxiety attack the whole time.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 21, p.423
The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429
Jacob isn’t suffering. Though I might be willing to change his condition.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.430
I promised him that I would let him explain, but I doubt you’ll see it much differently than I do. Of course, I’m often wrong about your thoughts, aren’t I?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.430
Watch yourself, mongrel.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.433
Maybe I’m hoping she’ll get irritated and rip your head off.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.434
We’ll take care of you, Bella. Don’t worry, we’ll be ready. None of us would risk Renesmee. I think you’ll be surprised at how entirely she’s already wrapped us all around her little fingers. She’ll be perfectly safe, no matter what.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.437
It was the only memory she had of you. She’s letting you know that she’s made the connection, that she knows who you are.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.446
Just because I understand, it doesn’t mean I won’t throw you out, Jacob. Bella’s doing extraordinarily well. Don’t ruin the moment for her.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.447
Amazing, isn’t she?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.450
Bella, love, no one is judging you. You’re doing so well.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 23, p.453
It’s just because he tastes better than the rest of us.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 23, p.463
Why don’t you just tell me who wins?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 24, p.472
I think it might be more fun if Jacob was awake for the big reveal, don’t you agree? So that someone there is able to express the right level of enthusiasm?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 24, p.472
Just a few seconds more, Bella. Then she’ll go annoy someone else.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 24, p.475
Alone time is their other gift. Alice was trying to be subtle about it.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 24, p.477
I am purely full of joy, because I am missing nothing. No one has more than I do now.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 24, p.484
There’s a tremendous amount of time left over when you don’t have to sleep. It makes balancing your… interests quite easy. There’s a reason why I’m the best musician in the family, why – besides Carlisle – I’ve read the most books, studied the most sciences, become fluent in the most languages… Emmett would have you believe that I’m such a know-it-all because of the mind reading, but the truth is that I’ve just had a lot of free time.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 24, p.485
That’s just a theory, mongrel. You think we should test it out on Charlie? Did you consider the physical pain you’re putting Bella through, even if she can resist? Or the emotional pain if she doesn’t? I suppose what happens to Bella no longer concerns you!
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25, p.494
If I didn’t believe you could handle it, we’d disappear today. This very minute. But you can. And you’ll be happier if you can have Charlie in your life.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25, p.500
No, I don’t care if you bite Jacob. That’s fine.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25, p.504
As far as Charlie knows, you’re the most repulsive monster of us all.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25, p.504
I’m sorry, but you need to know the public story more than you need to know the truth. If you’re going to be part of this secret, the public story is the one that counts. It’s to protect Bella and Renesmee as well as the rest of us. Can you go along with the lies for them?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25, p.509
It’s a little dense, don’t you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 26, p.518
Tell me you didn’t let go a bit on your first run, dog.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 26, p.522
What an amazing creature she is.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 26, p.523
You know how Jasper is – he can’t resist a good emotional climate. You’re so happy all the time, love, he gravitates toward you without thinking.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 27, p.527
We don’t know what she saw. Alice is neither unfeeling nor a coward. She just has more information than we do.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 29, p.559
You are bound differently than we are. We each still have our free will.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 29, p.559
I couldn’t let you walk away from me. It hurt just to imagine it.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 29, p.562
Listening to Alice is usually the right thing.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 29, p.569
If it comes to a fight, there won’t be much any of us can do.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 30, p.574
I will try to teach you what I can, but please don’t make me think about you sacrificing yourself as a diversion…
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 30, p.577
For Alice. It’s the only thanks I can give her now for the last fifty years.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 30, p.579
The Volturi aren’t supposed to be the villains, the way they seem to you. They are the foundation of our peace and civilization. Each member of the guard chooses to serve them. It’s quite prestigious; they all are proud to be there, not forced to be there.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 30, p.580
From what I saw of his thoughts last spring, Aro’s never wanted anything more than he wants Alice.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 31, p.604
I just can’t… bear it. Emmett and Rosalie know as much as I do. Tanya and Eleazar probably know more. Ask someone else.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 32, p.616
Looking at you that way, analyzing you as a target. Seeing all the ways I can kill you… It just makes it too real for me.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 32, p.616
They’ll be shocked when the infants save their superior lives, won’t they?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 34, p.661
Hurry back to me.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 35, p.665
They’re committed to protecting human life, Aro. That makes them able to coexist with us, but hardly with you. Unless you’re rethinking your lifestyle.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 36, p.699
Goodbye, Jacob, my brother… my son.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 37, p.723
Normal procedure. They usually incapacitate those on trial so they can’t escape.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 38, p.726
Aro, would you ask Jane to stop attacking my wife?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 38, p.732
They’ve given up. Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 38, p.740
They’ve been seriously shaken; their confidence is shattered. But, yet, I’m sure they’ll recover from the blow someday. And then… I imagine they’ll try to pick us off separately.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.743
When will you ever see yourself clearly?
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.744
Caius is actually terrified of werewolves. He almost lost a fight with one a few thousand years ago and never got over it.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745
A night for celebrations.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.752
High school. Or was purgatory the right word?
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.1
I’d seen the new face repeated in thought after thought from every angle. Just an ordinary human girl. The excitement over her arrival was tiresomely predictable – like flashing a shiny object at a child. Half the sheep-like males were already imagining themselves in love with her, just because she was something new to look at.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.2
It was just the same as having my name called aloud. I was glad my given name had fallen out of style lately – it had been annoying; anytime anyone thought of any Edward, my head would turn automatically…
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.2
Alice and I were good at these private conversations. It was rare that anyone caught us.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.3
Was it really necessary to experiment like this? Wouldn’t the safer path be to just admit that he might never be able to handle the thirst the way the rest of us could, and not push his limits? Why flirt with disaster?
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.3
But humans rarely walked too close. Their instincts told them what their conscious minds would never understand: we were dangerous.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.3
We had to stick together, Alice and I. It wasn’t easy, hearing voices or seeing visions of the future. Both freaks among those who were already freaks. We protected each other’s secrets.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.4
Though Rosalie and Emmett were more flagrant about their relationship, it was Alice and Jasper who knew each other’s every mood as well as their own. As if they could read minds, too – only just each other’s.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.5
It used to be nearly impossible to escape her constant, ridiculous daydreams. I’d wished, at the time, that I could explain to her exactly what would have happened if my lips, and the teeth behind them, had gotten anywhere near her. That would have silenced those annoying fantasies.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.6
I tried to block the inane chatter out of my head before the petty and the trivial could drive me mad.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.6
Rather unimaginative, actually. Just the barest hint of scandal. Not an ounce of horror. I’m a little disappointed.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.7
I acted as a lookout, for lack of a better word, for my family. To protect us. If anyone ever grew suspicious, I could give us early warning and an easy retreat. It happened occasionally – some human with an active imagination would see us in the characters of a book or a movie. Usually they got it wrong, but it was better to move on somewhere new than to risk scrutiny. Very, very rarely someone would guess right. We didn’t give them a chance to test their hypothesis. We simply disappeared, to become no more than a frightening memory…
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.7
Jessica and her classmates had no idea how lucky they were that none of them particularly appealed to me.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.9
Perhaps it was just some long buried protective instinct – the strong for the weak. This girl looked more fragile than her new classmates.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.10
I didn’t want to fail at this – it irritated me. And I didn’t want to develop any interest in her hidden thoughts simply because they were hidden from me. No doubt, when I did decipher her thoughts – and I would find a way to do so – they would be just as petty and trivial as any human’s thoughts. Not worth the effort I would expend to reach them.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.10
So, is the new one afraid of us yet?
Emmett Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.11
The humans weren’t smart enough to know that they feared me, but their survival instincts were enough to keep them away.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.11
Her scent hit me like a wrecking ball, like a battering ram. There was no image violent enough to encapsulate the force of what happened to me in that moment. In that instant, I was nothing close to the human I’d once been; no trace of the shreds of humanity I’d managed to cloak myself in remained. I was a predator. She was my prey. There was nothing else in the whole world but that truth.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.12
I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.12
Her glance met mine, and I saw myself reflected in the wide mirror of her eyes. The shock of the face I saw there saved her life for a few thorny moments.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.13
I knew what had to happen now. The girl would have to come sit beside me, and I would have to kill her.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.14
She would not have time to scream or feel pain; I would not kill her cruelly. That much I would give this stranger with her horribly desirable blood.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.14
The monster in my head smiled in anticipation.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.15
In a few moments, there would be nothing left in me that would reflect the years I’d spent with my creator, my mentor, my father in all the ways that counted. My eyes would glow red as a devil’s; all likeness would be lost forever.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.16
I knew that he would forgive me for this horrible act that I would do. Because he loved me. Because he thought I was better than I was. And he would still love me, even as I now proved him wrong.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.16
Why did she have to come here? Why did she have to exist? Why did she have to ruin the little peace I had in this non-life of mine? Why had this aggravating human ever been born? She would ruin me.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.17
Hating her, hating how she made me feel – it helped a little.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.18
It was sophistry to think that by saving the nineteen humans in this room with effort and patience, I would be less a monster when I killed this innocent girl.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.20
I had things ordered the way I liked them now. Why should I let some aggravating and delicious nobody ruin that?
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.21
I was the last person who would ever stand as a protector for Isabella Swan. She would never need protection from anything more than she needed it from me.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.21
There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.23
As I sped back to Forks doing ninety, I wasn’t sure where I was going. To say goodbye to my father? Or to embrace the monster inside me? The road flew away beneath my tires.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Chapter 1, p.28
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