“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“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.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“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.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“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”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy?”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“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.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“You’re still waiting for the running and the screaming, aren’t you?”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door again... I came in through the window... Still, the intent was clear," said Edward.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“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?”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood.
He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“I can feel what you’re feeling now — and you are worth it.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“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?”
“That's right,” I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word.
He shook his head. “You're incredible.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“You're intoxicated by my very presence.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight
“We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.”
― Rachel Carson, quote from Silent Spring
“The feeling he had had all his young life - that he was brought on this earth for something special - had not left Alexander, not quite; what it did was dissipate inside him, became translucent in his blood vessels. It no longer pulsed through his body. He was no longer filled with a sense of purpose as he traveled through his adolescence. He was filled with a sense of despair.
My childhood was good, he thought. And my adolescence - I could have lived through it all. I could have lived through it all if only I continued to have the feeling that at the end of childhood, at the end of adolescence, there was something else in this life that would be mine, that I could make with my bare hands, and once I had made it, I could say, I did this to my life. I made my life so.
Hope.
It was gone from Alexander on this sunny crisp Sunday, and the feeling of purpose had vanished, was vanquished in his veins.”
― Paullina Simons, quote from Tatiana and Alexander
“I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Requiem
“But one thing could not happen; it could not be that great and wise men of exalted soul who would raise lasting buildings for the love of God, so that the world should be more beautiful and man live in it better and more easily, should everywhere and for all time vanish from this earth. Should they too vanish, it would mean that the love of God was extinguished and had disappeared from the world. That could not be.”
― Ivo Andrić, quote from The Bridge on the Drina
“The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.”
― Nikolai Gogol, quote from Dead Souls
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