Stephenie Meyer

"When you can live forever what do you live for?"

"Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky."

"Have you heard this one, Psycho? How do a blonde's brain cells die? blonde's brain cells die alone."

"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars — points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; t…"

"Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it…"

"Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end."

"For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours … all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet…"

"That's just great," someone said under his breath. "We've got a bloody queen mother alien living with us. She could blow into a million new buggers at any moment."