Eclipse (novel)

"Odd as this might sound, I suppose I'm glad you're here, Jacob." "You mean 'as much as I'd love to kill you, I'm glad [Bella's] warm', right?" "It's an uncomfortable truce, isn't it?"

"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." "Maybe...if you weren't a disgusting vampire who was planning to suck out the life of the girl I love...well, no, not even then."

""And when does this little truce end?" Jacob asked. "First light? Or do we wait until after the fight?" There was a pause as they both considered. "First light," they both whispered, and then laughed quietly."

"I was like Cathy, like Wuthering Heights, only my options were so much better than hers, neither one evil, neither one weak. And here I sat, crying about it, not doing anything productive to make it right. Just like Cathy."

"Seth jumped to his feet again suddenly, the hackles on the back of his neck standing up stiffly. I looked around, but saw nothing. If Seth didn't cut it out, I was going to throw a pinecone at him."

"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 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."

"What happened to fighting back? Don't start with the noble self-sacrifice now! Fight!"

"You are bizarrely moral for a vampire."

"[Victoria] wheeled and flew toward the refuge of the forest like an arrow from a bow. But Edward was faster — a bullet from a gun."

"Sure, Bella, don't worry. He was himself enough to tease me." "Tease you?" I echoed in shock. "Yeah — in between insulting somebody's mother and taking the Lord's name in vain, he said, 'Bet you're glad she loves Cullen instead of me today, huh, Charlie?'"

"I'm exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us — comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken. [...] If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic..."

"He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."

"The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."

"It had not been Edward and Jacob that I'd been trying to force together, it was the two parts of myself, Edward's Bella and Jacob's Bella. But they could not exist together, and I never should have tried."

""Bella...are you sure? Did you make the right choice? I've never seen you in so much pain —" His voice broke on the last word. But I had known worse pain."

"I read the lines quietly, mostly to myself. "'If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.'" I nodded, again to myself. "I know exactly what she means. And I know who I can't live without.""

""Tell me why not, Bella," he demanded. "This had better not be about me." Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect."

"[Edward] once again slid my ring into place on the third finger of my left hand. Where it would stay — conceivably for the rest of eternity."

"I don't even like Bella Swan. And you've got me grieving over this leech-lover like I'm in love with her, too. Can you see where that might be a little confusing? I dreamed about kissing her last night! What the hell am I supposed to do with that?"