Quotes from Twilight / Life and Death

“Try not to get caught up in antiquated gender roles.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I thought about falling to my knees on purpose. This was the kind of beauty you worshiped. The kind you built temples for and offered sacrifices to. I wished I had something in my empty hands to give her, but what would a goddess want from a mediocre mortal like me?”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“My face was burning, and I knew I must look like a gorilla on a greyhound.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“Since she obviously preferred me dead, she was pretending that I was.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“Not that she wasn't hot - she was super, mega, hot - but not.. approachable. Like, not even the Rock would dare to whistle at her, if you know what I mean.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I sat with my legs folded under me, my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands. It was very warm--the sun felt strange on my skin now that I was so used to the rain--and the meadow was still lovely, but it was just background now. It didn't stand out. I had a new definition of beauty.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“Seriously, though, this wasn’t a life and death situation—it was just high school. It’s not like anyone was going to bite me.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“She cut him off. “We’re finished, thank you very much, that ought to cover it, no change, thanks.” She was already out of her seat. I fumbled for my wallet. “Um, let me—you didn’t even get anything—” “My treat, Beau.” “But—” “Try not to get caught up in antiquated gender roles.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“Another legend claims that we descended from wolves—and that the wolves are our sisters still.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“As always, I was too aware of Edythe sitting close enough to touch, but still so far away she might as well have been a product of my imagination.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“That had always been my way, though. Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I just followed through—relieved that the choice was made.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I didn’t feel the need to rub it in to every cheeseburger I conquered.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I don’t really know anything about cars. I wouldn’t be able to fix anything that broke, and I couldn’t afford a mechanic.…”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb,”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I didn’t relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn’t relate well to people, period.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I felt like some crazy old miser, gloating over his piles of gold coins, only instead of coins, it was seconds that I hoarded.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“Ahora mismo, considero que la humanidad está muy sobrevalorada.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I’ve been staring forever in the face for a century, and tonight is the very first time it’s looked beautiful to me. Because of you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I wasn’t very good at leaving you alone when I tried. I don’t know how to do it.”
“Will you do me a favour? Stop trying to figure that one out.”
She half-smiled. “I suppose, given the frequency of your near-death experiences, it’s actually safer for me to stay close.”
“True story. You never know when another rogue van might attack.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“There were a few things I knew for sure. For one, Edythe was an actual vampire. For another, there was a part of her that saw me as food. But in the end, none of that mattered. All that mattered was that I loved her, more than I’d ever imagined it was possible to love anything. She was everything I wanted, the only thing I would ever want.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.   Genesis 2:17”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

“I felt a strange sense of pride, being able to claim her this way. Kind of Neanderthal of me, but there it was.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Twilight / Life and Death

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