“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
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Born place: in Connecticut, The United States
Born date December 24, 1973
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“No! I need to go home," I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.”
― Ally Carter, quote from All Fall Down
“I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, quote from The Palace of Illusions
“And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country not of their birth. ... Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually hedonic refugees have an ephiphany, a moment of great clarity when they realize, beyond a doubt, that they were born in the wrong country.”
― Eric Weiner, quote from The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
“French said: “It’s like this with us, baby. We’re coppers and everybody hates our guts. And as if we didn’t have enough trouble, we have to have you. As if we didn’t get pushed around enough by the guys in the corner offices, the City Hall gang, the day chief, the night chief, the Chamber of Commerce, His Honor the Mayor in his paneled office four times as big as the three lousy rooms the whole homicide staff has to work out of. As if we didn’t have to handle one hundred and fourteen homicides last year out of three rooms that don’t have enough chairs for the whole duty squad to sit down in at once. We spend our lives turning over dirty underwear and sniffing rotten teeth. We go up dark stairways to get a gun punk with a skinful of hop and sometimes we don’t get all the way up, and our wives wait dinner that night and all the other nights. We don’t come home any more. And nights we do come home, we come home so goddam tired we can’t eat or sleep or even read the lies the papers print about us. So we lie awake in the dark in a cheap house on a cheap street and listen to the drunks down the block having fun. And just about the time we drop off the phone rings and we get up and start all over again. Nothing we do is right, not ever. Not once. If we get a confession, we beat it out of the guy, they say, and some shyster calls us Gestapo in court and sneers at us when we muddle our grammar. If we make a mistake they put us back in uniform on Skid Row and we spend the nice cool summer evenings picking drunks out of the gutter and being yelled at by whores and taking knives away from greaseballs in zoot suits. But all that ain’t enough to make us entirely happy. We got to have you.” He stopped and drew in his breath. His face glistened a little as if with sweat. He leaned forward from his hips. “We got to have you,” he repeated. “We got to have sharpers with private licenses hiding information and dodging around corners and stirring up dust for us to breathe in. We got to have you suppressing evidence and framing set-ups that wouldn’t fool a sick baby. You wouldn’t mind me calling you a goddam cheap double-crossing keyhole peeper, would you, baby?” “You want me to mind?” I asked him. He straightened up. “I’d love it,” he said. “In spades redoubled.”
― Raymond Chandler, quote from The Little Sister
“Wonderboy flashed in the sun. It caught the sphere it was biggest. A noise like a twenty-one gun salute cracked the sky. There was a straining, ripping sound and a few drops of rain spattered to the ground somebody then shouted it was raining cats and dogs. By the time of Roy got in from second he was wading in water ankle deep.”
― Bernard Malamud, quote from The Natural
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