Stephenie Meyer Twilight Quotations

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there.

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

I didn’t want to kill girls… even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde.

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

Well… don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog.

What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.

If this is how you’re going to react, I’ll freak out more often.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

That was the first night I dreamed of Eward Cullen.

If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.

I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full of revulsion. As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind.

It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share

Just because I’m resisting the wine doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the bouquet.

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

Because when I thought of him, of his voice, his hypnotic eyes, the magnetic force of his personality, I wanted nothing more than to be with him right now.

He looks at you like...like you're something to eat.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

You are the most beautiful thing in my world.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him

I miss you when you’re not there. When you’re happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You’re family. I love you, but I’m not in love with you.

non-reality was black, and it didn't hurt so much.

I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart I've left it with you

My mother is part albino." Bella Swan

Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

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.

but you see, just because we've been...dealt a certain hand...it doesn't mean 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.

I thought I'd explained it clearly before. Bella, I can't live in a world where you don't exist.

Hasn’t anyone ever told you? Life isn’t fair.

I may not be a human, but I am a man.

You're intoxicated by my very presence.

I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.

Bella, it's not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant.

My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

He raised his hand, hesitant, conflict raging in his eyes, and then swiftly brushed the length of my cheekbone with his fingertips. His skin was as icy as ever, but the trail his fingers left on my skin was alarmingly warm - like I'd been burned, but didn't feel the pain of it yet.

You still owe me a yellow Porsche.

i want you, and i want you forever. one lifetime is simply not enough for me.

I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.

Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad?

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

I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." —Bella Swan

I love a happy ending. They are so rare.

He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way you look right now...You're much more than beautiful.

I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." — Jacob Black

I'm really glad Edward didn't kill you. Everything's so much more fun with you around." — Emmett Cullen

I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.

You’re still waiting for the running and the screaming, aren’t you?

Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.

What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.

What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy?

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.

Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?

Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.

Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?

Once people start throwing wet stuff, I go inside.

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

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

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.

Why am I covered in feathers

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

I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore

About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

Your number was up the first time I met you.

There’s something… strange about the way you two are together. The way he watches you — it’s so… protective. Like he’s about to throw himself in front of a bullet to save you or something.

Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren't in love with me?" — Edward Cullen

I can feel what you’re feeling now — and you are worth it.

Bella, would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?

what choice have I? I cannot live without you, but I will not destroy your soul." -Edward Cullen

I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever.

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

It's twilight. 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?

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else. Ask Quil or Embry. It drives them all crazy

Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.

It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.

I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.

I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of the problems.... Edward Cullen Twilight, Chapter 5

Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "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?" "Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined.

No one could be still like Edward.

I tried to remember how to exhale. I had to look away before it came back to me.

I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.

Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607

What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin.

I came to witness. I stay to fight.

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.