"I thought briefly of the clichés, about how you were suppose to see your life flash before your eyes. I was so much l…"

""Juliet gets dumped and ends up with Paris" would have never been a hit."

"I bet she's tougher than that. She runs with vampires."

"Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made."

"Happiness. It made the whole dying thing pretty bearable."

"Goodbye, I love you, was my last thought."

"What kind of a place was this? Could a world really exist where ancient legends went wandering around the borders of …"

"I thought of Carlisle, the centuries upon centuries that he had struggled to teach himself to ignore blood, so that h…"

"So, you're the vampire girl." I stiffened. "Yes. Are you the wolf girl?"

"Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would have been better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start han…"