Midnight Sun

A wish
A wish to read his
as he reads ours
to know the story behind his tortured soul
to see the world he lives
through the blazing golden eyes

Our favorite vampire
his story to never be told
to understand how he sees things
to understand what he has seen
to know the love within his beating dead heart

A stake through the heart for us
nothing to the people who shoved it there
to see his world
our world
aching us for the wait
so quench our thirst
heal our hearts
and watch us sparkle
under the midnight sun

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Mirror holding withered, aged face
Hair white and out of place
Love, my love walking towards me in the light
Forever and always alive, I will forever and always age
Todays birthday,
my birthday
How many has he celebrated?
Nightmares of things to come, my future life
Splattered across my mind

Pictures, memories
a photobook of sorts
Candles, roses cover wall to wall
Birthday cake and crystal glass plates
Silver wrapped package laid in my clumsy hands
Could she see what was to come, what is going on,
what will be gone?
Red crimson, cake splattered
Six golden eyes lay upon a
feast of flowing blood

He is leaving, gone
White house with wall of windows forever empty
Piano sits still, music no longer lingers
Bubbly life prancing in the halls, the dance has now ended
A kiss on the forehead,
a promise worth keeping
“Never existed” but will always remember
Life, as I have known it, no longer worth living

The moon sets and
my Sun soon rises




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Bella’s Love

Fire vs. Ice, Fur vs. Stone.
But there is no competition. I know where my heart belongs.
Skin that’s too hot vs. Skin that’s too cold.
To try to break our unbreakable bond, he must be bold.

I don’t care if he can make me warm while the cold win blows.
Because in my sleep I speak your name & this I know, you know.

It is tough though, losing a friend. But I’m gaining so much more.
Gaining a love that I never knew existed until I moved here to Forks.

I saw you walk into the cafeteria, the absolute meaning of beauty.
& I’m happy you couldn’t read my thoughts, that you couldn’t see through me.

He’s sweet, he’s nice, some people say he’s the sensible path. But I’m happy with the one I’ve taken.
The one who makes me quiver & smile. The one whose heart I won’t be breaking.

A perfect match. The lion & his lamb. Opposites surely do attract.
Because you’re the only one I’ll ever want & I’ll never take that back…



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Always bloodthirsty.
The secret he must keep away.
Protecting his love.

To much knowledge shared,
turns his truth, to horrible lies.
Breaking his true love.

The bonds grow stronger.
The past becomes an open box.
Petrifying Love.

A life at hard risk.
Bonds two unfriendly forces.
Forever in Love.



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Us For Always

The minute I saw you, I couldn’t breathe.
My heart stopped in my throat, and how weak I became in the knees.
You walked in with your crowd, the wind gently rustling your uncontrollable hair, and it was over when our eyes first met.
We tried so hard to stay away from one another,
but my heart was taken, as well as yours, and I knew you were what was forever.
So many times our eyes would meet, I’d blush deep red, but you’d regretfully look away.
You tried so hard to avoid my eyes, so hard to avoid any contact, but it failed.
One day as I walked past, you gave up your fight and let your guard down, pulled me close and took me in.
As your arms wrapped around me, you smiled down at my pleased face, and I knew… I knew you and I would be for always.



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First


he loved her
he left her
she cryed
he thought she died
she came
he took the blame
he’s trying to make her sane
they left
they voted
and now shes devoted
and so he says
“i’m here, i’m here with you.”
and that's what i quoted.


Second



i am heart broken
i wonder if he really meant it
i hear his voice
i see him gone forever
i want him back

i am heart broken
i pretend he will be in my room when i wake
i feel like that wont happen
i touch the empty spot where his picture once was
i worry i will be alone
i cry because he is gone

i am heart broken
i understand what he did was for my own good
i say i am okay
i dream the scene when he left
i try to think of other people
i hope i will forget

i am heart broken


Without You

Its dark out here.
Like someone just shut off the lights and my eyes haven’t adjusted yet
I’m blind
I’m lost in the dark
Lost without you
Can’t see whats in front of me
Can’t see what the future holds for me
There’s no hope to ever be brought back into the light again
Not while your gone.
So what’s the point
Why should I move
Why should I get up from this forest floor
I’d rather let the rain fall and soak deep into my bones than leave this spot
I tried to follow you
Stupid I know
With your speed you were a miles away as soon as your lips left my forehead
But I just couldn’t stop
I’d rather be lost in this forest forever than go back to a life without you.
I can’t.
Your words flow through the air above me
Like a harsh winter wind whispering through the leaves
As if I’d never existed
A promise broken as soon as it left your frozen lips
Why am I here then
Why am I on this forest floor
Why does it feel like I’m resting on the bottom of the ocean as water pours into my lungs
Its because you do exist
Because we existed
But now you’ve disappeared
Leaving only empty promises.
I hear their voices
See their flashlights
But I don’t want to be found
Pick me up, take me home, surround me with people
But I’d still feel as if I was in this forest
Searching
For something that can never be found
Something that’s never existed before
Something that can never be duplicated
You.
So let me be
Let me lay here forever
Maybe over time ill become part of forest
Just some object that the trees will grow around
Let me lay
As the waves of pain wash over me
I take my last breath filled with your sweet scent that still lingers on my skin
And this lonely lamb will sink into the darkness
Forever lost without her lion.


No more Reason

my heart,
My reason for living,
My reason for existing.

I hold my breath,
I stop my heartbeats,
I don’t feel alive,
I’m not with reality.

Everything I see and everything I hear,
Will always be him,
Agony crawls to my chest,
And rips into it.

The mark he left on me,
Is a gaping hole,
The pain swelling through my heart,
Is his past feelings.

My hold was not strong enough,
He lets me go by the hand,
Now I’m a lost soul,
My body and heart are gone

Life was beautiful,
He was the reason,
Now he is gone,
And life is utterly disgusting

Every heartbeat I have,
Is a prayer for him
Every tear that falls,
Is a piece of my broken heart

He says he ceases to exist,
I slowly start to believe,
For he is not here with me,

Forbidden to remember,
Terrified to forget.

Third

She drives the car away
She tries to stop her tears
But in the end she knows
There is nothing to calm her fears
She was forbidden to remember
But terrified to forget
Because she knew if she moved on
She’d be full of regret
Yet she found new love
Love in a friend
But her heart was too broken
Too broken to mend
And she knows her new love
Is not strong enough
But yet he stays with her
Because times are tough
Now she must leave
To save her first love
Because the danger he is in
Could mean the end
The end of him
The end of her
She is the only one who can save him
But will she leave the one
Who stayed with her?
Will her first love come back?
Will they both die?
Or will they be together
Forever…



Monster

She was my night, My Sun
My life and my soul
She had my heart and always
Would, to be without her left
Me feeling hallow and empty

There was no reason for me
To continue living, she was
Better off, but I could not
Help but want to be hers
I know I caused her pain and it sickens me

Why do I have to be a monster
And put her in danger, the
Agony was excruciating I
Could not bear to live without her
But she is meant to have a long and happy life

I will not destroy it for my own
Selfishness, how could anyone
Want to be this, why did it have
To be her, and now she will never
Know how much I love her

I will just have to walk this earth alone for eternity



Him or the Sun

I was in the dark alone
The pain was unbearable
I had no will to live
A lifeless zombie in the shadows

But I found the Sun
He was bright and beautiful
He brought me out of the shadows
Though the hole in my heart never left

He was my best friend and
I loved him, and he loved
Me back, I didn’t deserve his
Love, for my heart wanted another

But it hurt to think about him
Even hear his name, each hit
Deepened the hole in my heart
He realized how it hurt me to hear his name

He wanted to take the pain away
He wanted me to move on
He wanted me to be his
He wanted to be mine

I wanted to be with him too
But I just couldn’t, if I
Did I might forget who I once
Loved, and I couldn’t take that chance

I was still in the dark, alone



One day of a time

I looked at you
And I could feel I saw your soul
I could feel you in my bones
Just by looking at you

Then you were gone
Thinking that was best for me
Thinking I could just live
Without looking at your eyes

Without looking at your eyes
I feel that I’m breaking in parts
There’s a hole inside my heart
I can’t take you of my mind
I’m just trying to survive
One day at a time

A little light
Helped me survive
Gave me the strength
Not to fall again

But you are on my mind
In every thought
I can hear your voice
And it don’t hurt that much

The moment of the jump is here
I can hear you telling me not to
But I can’t live another day
Without looking at your eyes
I just can’t survive

Cause’
Without looking at your eyes
I feel that I’m breaking in parts
There’s a hole inside my heart
and I can’t take you of my mind
I’m just trying to survive
One day at a time

300. Emmett, how do you feel about a little bet? (Bella)

301. You. Me. Arm-wrestling. Dining room table. Now. (Bella)

302. You gonna back down so easy, little sister? Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn’t have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed? (Emmett)

303. Tell me you didn’t let go a bit on your first run, dog. (Edward)

304. Freaky Bella. (Jacob)

305. What an amazing creature she is. (Edward)

306. He was both dazzling and dazzled. (Bella)

307. I’m not my pack’s nanny. (Jacob)

308. Jacob was more a child than Renesmee sometimes. (Bella)

309. When I returned, I would take Jacob’s side. He should come with us. He had as big a stake in this as any of us – his entire life was at stake, just like mine. (Bella)

310. The Amazon offered a change from our normal quarry. Jaguars and panthers, for example. Emmett had a whim to wrestle with an anaconda. (Bella)

311. My first illogical thought was that Alice was playing some joke on us. Because there was no way that Alice could have dropped the vase by accident. I could have darted across the room to catch the vase in plenty of time myself, if I hadn’t assumed she would get it. And how would it fall through her fingers in the first place? Her perfectly sure fingers… I had never seen a vampire drop anything by accident.
Ever. (Bella)
312. I felt not like stone but ice. For the first time since I’d been reborn a vampire, I felt cold. (Bella)

313. After all, the Cullens were in league with werewolves. From Irina’s point of view, maybe this meant nothing was beyond us… (Bella)

314. Was this the limit, then? I’d had more happiness than most people ever experienced. Was there some natural law that demanded equal shares of happiness and misery in the world? Was my joy overthrowing the balance? (Bella)

315. It’s over. We’ve all been sentenced to die. (Bella)

316. Emmett cussed loud enough that Jacob lurched to his feet with a growl. In the yard, his growl was echoed by his pack. My family was already a blur of action. (Bella)

317. Don’t get your family slaughtered for pride. (Carlisle)

318. I’m not going down without a fight. (Emmett)

319. We would fight, they would fight, and we would all die. (Bella)

320. I was the only person in the world who could lie to Edward. Was that what Alice wanted from me? Her last request? (Bella)

321. The whole imprinted-werewolf-gives-the-object-of-his-imprinting-whatever-she-wants thing was getting old pretty fast. (Bella)

322. Did vampires ever do anything absentmindedly? (Bella)

323. Edward, will you teach me how to fight? (Bella)

324. He froze, and then his eyes swept over me with a deep significance, like he was looking at me for the first or last time. (Bella)

325. Would you leave me unable to defend myself? (Bella)

326. I will try to teach you what I can, but please don’t make me think about you sacrificing yourself as a diversion… (Edward)

327. I have to learn everything. As much as you can possibly cram into my head in the next month. (Bella)

328. For Alice. It’s the only thanks I can give her now for the last fifty years. (Edward)

329. Edward, no matter how many friends you gather, we can’t help you win. We can only die with you. (Tanya)

330. A very talented family. A mind reader for a father, a shield for a mother, and then whatever magic this extraordinary child has bewitched us with. (Eleazar)

331. Ironic. Aro sent me all over the world searching for such anomalies, and you simply stumble across it by accident and don’t even realize what you have. (Eleazar)

332. Anyone who tries to touch me drops like a human that’s been Tasered. It only downs him for a second, but that’s long enough. (Kate)

334. Abstaining from human blood makes us more civilized – lets us form true bonds of love. (Eleazar)

335. From what I saw of his thoughts last spring, Aro’s never wanted anything more than he wants Alice. (Edward)

336. If Aro wanted me to do something – anything – all he had to do was threaten Edward and I would comply. And vice versa. (Bella)

337. Of course, Jacob got more surly with each new addition. He kept his distance when he could, and when he couldn’t he grumbled to Renesmee that someone was going to have to provide an index if anyone expected him to keep all the new bloodsuckers’ names straight. (Bella)

338. Looking at you that way, analyzing you as a target. Seeing all the ways I can kill you… It just makes it too real for me. (Edward)

339. Emmett was more than willing to help, though his teaching felt to me a lot like revenge for all the lost arm-wrestling matches. If I could still bruise, I would have been purple from head to toe. (Bella)

340. Now my hands were free, and if Kate wanted to keep her hands attached to her wrists, she’d better keep her distance. (Bella)

341. They say you can put a vampire flat on his back. (Garrett)

342. Well, well, Carlisle. You have been naughty, haven’t you? (Stefan)

343. There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. (Bella)

344. Edward had gotten around to revealing my after car; as he’d suspected, I had not been capable of showing the appropriate enthusiasm. Sure, it was pretty and fast, but I liked to run. (Bella)

345. Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular. (Jacob)

346. She looks like… Well, she looks like a freaking supermodel, that’s what she looks like. Rocking body, pale as a sheet, dark brown hair almost to her waist, needs a good night’s sleep – any of this sound familiar? (Max)

347. I’m not really a fan of drugs, and neither is my husband. Just say no and all that. (Bella)

348. So this man knew Jasper, not Alice. Knew him, and seemed afraid of him, too. (Bella)

349. The only reason Renesmee would need a forger was if she was running. And the only reason Renesmee would be running was if we had lost. (Bella)

350. I heard the music before I was out of the car. Edward hadn’t touched his piano since the night Alice left. Now, as I shut the car door, I heard the song morph through a bridge and change into my lullaby. Edward was welcoming me home. (Bella)

351. You could always count on werewolves to be buzzed about a coming fight, no matter how suicidal. (Bella)

352. I gave you life. You’re wasting it. (Amun)

353. No matter the outcome, word will spread. It’s time our world saw the Volturi for what they’ve become. They’ll never fall if everyone believes this nonsense about them protecting our way of life. (Stefan)

354. Apparently, I’m a hot commodity. It appears I have to win the right to be free. (Benjamin)

355. We stand with Carlisle. And we fight with him. (Tanya)

356. The packs will fight with the Cullens. We’re not afraid of vampires. (Jacob)

357. Stupid leeches. Think they’re so superior. (Jacob)

358. They’ll be shocked when the infants save their superior lives, won’t they? (Edward)

359. What if your trust in me is the reason that we fail? (Bella)

360. For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned… (Bella)

370. Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. (Bella)

371. If any of the wolves stood with us, the Volturi would be sure to search out the rest. They had gambled their entire species on this stand. And we were going to lose. (Bella)

372. Truly, Carlisle, nothing would please me more than to preserve your life today. (Aro)

373. The shield blew out from me in a bubble of sheer energy, a mushroom cloud of liquid steel. It pulsed like a living thing – I could feel it, from the apex to the edges. (Bella)

374. I never dreamed of the existence of such a thing in all my centuries. What an addition to our histories. (Aro)

375. Interesting company you keep. (Demitri)

376. You look good. Immortality suits you. (Felix)

377. They’re committed to protecting human life, Aro. That makes them able to coexist with us, but hardly with you. Unless you’re rethinking your lifestyle. (Edward)

378. So much to discuss. So much to decide. If you and your furry protector will excuse me, my dear Cullens, I must confer with my brothers. (Aro)

379. The Children of the Moon have been our bitter enemies from the dawn of time. We have hunted them to near extinction in Europe and Asia. Yet Carlisle encourages a familiar relationship with this enormous infestation – no doubt in an attempt to overthrow us. The better to protect his warped lifestyle. (Caius)

380. You breed mutants here. (Caius)

381. So the Cullens sided with the shape-shifters against our own kind – against the friend of a friend, even. (Casius)

382. It was one thing to know that death was coming with fierce, unstoppable speed; it was another thing to watch it happen. (Bella)

383. I have witnessed the bonds within this family – I say family and not coven. These strange golden-eyed ones deny their very natures. But in return have they found something worth even more, perhaps, than mere gratification of desire? (Garrett)

384. I came to witness. I stay to fight. (Garrett)

385. Edward’s and Jacob’s faces were almost identical masks of horror, despite the fact that one of them was an animal. (Bella)

386. I love you, too, Jake. You’ll always be my best man. (Bella)

387. Goodbye, Jacob, my brother… my son. (Edward)

388. Edward took my hand. He knew that he was included. When I said my fate, there was no question that I meant the two of us. We were just halves of the whole. (Bella)

389. If we live through this, I’ll follow you anywhere, woman. (Garrett)

390. His face glowed with an expression of triumph that I didn’t understand – it was the expression an angel of destruction might wear while the world burned. Beautiful and terrifying. (Bella)

391. Aro, would you ask Jane to stop attacking my wife? (Edward)

392. I get to stay with you? (Renesmee)

393. Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it. (Bella)

394. I couldn’t speak anymore. I lifted my head and kissed him with a passion that might possibly set the forest on fire. I wouldn’t have noticed. (Bella)

395. They’ve been seriously shaken; their confidence is shattered. But, yet, I’m sure they’ll recover from the blow someday. And then… I imagine they’ll try to pick us off separately. (Edward)

396. Try to find Alistair and tell him what happened. I’d hate to think of him hiding under a rock for the next decade. (Carlisle)

397. Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. (Emmett)

398. So there are real werewolves? With the full moon and silver bullets and all that? (Bella)

399. Real. Does that make me imaginary? (Jacob)

400. This was about my acting skills? (Bella)

401. I missed you, too, Bella. So forgive me, and try to be satisfied with being the superhero of the day. (Alice)

402. I guess things are going to be kind of boring now, aren’t they? (Jacob)

403. You are fairly ideal in every way. (Bella)

404. But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever. (Bella)

405. A night for celebrations. (Edward)

406. Now you know. No one’s ever loved anyone as much as I love you. (Bella)

211. Everything inside me came undone as I stared at the tiny porcelain face of the half-vampire, half-human baby. All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was – my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self – disconnected from me in that second – snip, snip, snip – and floated up into space. I was not left drifting. A new string held me where I was. (Jacob)

212. The gravity of the earth no longer tied me to the place where I stood. It was the baby girl in the blond vampire’s arms that held me here now. Renesmee. (Jacob)

213. Her tiny face was so absolutely perfect that it stunned me. She was even more beautiful than her father. Unbelievable. Impossible. (Bella)

214. I had done it. Against the odds, I had been strong enough to survive Renesmee, to hold on to her until she was strong enough to live without me. (Bella)

215. It was harder not to answer this voice, but I stayed paralyzed. I knew that the pain in his voice now was nothing compared to what it could be. Right now he only feared that I was suffering. (Bella)

216. She’s going to be dazzling. (Alice)

217. Edward didn’t answer, but Alice’s words gave me hope that maybe I didn’t resemble the charcoal briquette I felt like. It seemed as if I must be just a pile of charred bones by now. Every cell in my body had been razed to ash. (Bella)

218. Oh. Of course. Edward wouldn’t feel cold to me. We were the same temperature now. (Bella)

219. Jasper and Emmett were in the front to protect the others, as I had assumed. What I hadn’t grasped immediately was that I was the
danger. (Bella)

220. He smiled the kind of smile that would have stopped my heart if it were still beating. (Bella)

221. Don’t panic, love. You’re just a bit stronger than I am for the moment. (EDward)

222. I was stronger than Edward. I’d made him say ow. (Bella)

223. It was like he’d never kissed me – like this was our first kiss. And, in truth, he’d never kissed me this way before. It almost made me feel guilty. Surely I was in breach of the contract. I shouldn’t be allowed to have this, too. (Bella)

224. You’ve been holding out on me. (Bella)

225. Now it’s your turn to not break me. (Edward)

226. Let’s hunt, Bella. (Edward)

227. You promised I could be there the first time! What if you two run past something reflective? (Alice)

228. I stared at the beautiful woman with the terrifying eyes, looking for pieces of me. There was something there in the shape of her lips – if you looked past the dizzying beauty, it was true that her upper lip was slightly out of balance, a bit too full to match the lower. Finding this familiar little flaw made me feel a tiny bit better. Maybe the rest of me was in there, too. (Bella)

229. I was rather hoping that I’d be able to hear your mind, now that it is more similar to my own. And here I am, as frustrated as ever, wondering what could possibly be going on inside your head. (Edward)

230. I guess my brain will never work right. At least I’m pretty. (Bella)

231. Bella, you have never been merely pretty. (Edward)

232. We have all eternity, and you’re worried about the time it would take to walk to the back door? (Bella)

233. Right. I was the monster now. I had to keep away from scents that might trigger my wild side. From the people that I loved in particular. Even the ones I didn’t really know yet. (Bella)

234. And I was very conscious of my family behind me, watching silently. Mostly silently. Emmett had already chuckled under his breath once. One mistake, and he’d be rolling on the floor. Then the jokes about the world’s only clumsy vampire would start. (Bella)

235. That was quite graceful – even for a vampire. (Edward)

236. It was the first time anyone had ever applied the word graceful to me in my entire life… or, well, existence anyway. (Bella)

237. I’m not laughing at you, Bella. I’m laughing because I am in shock. And I am in shock because I am completely amazed. (Edward)

238. You shouldn’t be able to do any of this. You shouldn’t be so… so rational. You shouldn’t be able to stand here discussing this with me calmly and coolly. And, much more than any of that, you should not have been able to break off mid-hunt with the scent of human blood in the air. Even mature vampires have difficulty with that – we’re always careful of where we hunt so as not to put ourselves in the path of temptation. Bella, you’re behaving like you’re decades rather than days old. (Edward)

239. What wouldn’t I give to be able to see into your mind for just this one moment. (Edward)

240. Oops. I didn’t mean to tackle you like that. Are you okay? (Bella)

241. The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. (Edward)

242. Jacob isn’t suffering. Though I might be willing to change his condition. (Edward)

243. I gotta say it, Bells. You’re a freak show. (Jacob)

244. Wath yourself, mongrel. (Edward)

245. Maybe I’m hoping she’ll get irritated and rip your head off. (Edward)

246. Huh. I can see what everyone’s been going on about. You stink, Jacob. (Bella)

247. Jacob just kept grinning. This made me feel hopeful that things were going to be right between us, the way they hadn’t been for so long now. Maybe now I could truly be his friend, since I disgusted him enough physically that he couldn’t love me the same way as before. Maybe that was all I needed. (Bella)

248. We’ll take care of you, Bella. Don’t worry, we’ll be ready. None of us would risk Renesmee. I think you’ll be surprised at how entirely she’s already wrapped us all around her little fingers. She’ll be perfectly safe, no matter what. (Edward)

249. Did ya get in a couple of good swipes? (Emmett)

250. Just because I understand, it doesn’t mean I won’t throw you out, Jacob. Bella’s doing extraordinarily well. Don’t ruin the moment for her. (Edward)

251. I’ll help him toss you, dog. I owe you a good kick in the gut. (Rosalie)

252. Edward, I don’t want to hurt you, so please let go of me. (Bella)

253. You stupid mutt! How could you! My baby! (Bella)

254. I’ve held her all of one time, and already you think you have some moronic wolfy claim on her? She’s mine. (Bella)

255. How dare you imprint on my baby? Have you lost your mind? (Bella)

256. You said we belonged in each other’s lives, right? That we were family. You said that was how you and I were supposed to be. So… now we are. It’s what you want. (Jacob)

257. You think you’ll be part of my family as my son-in-law! (Bella)

258. Stop her, Edward. She’ll be unhappy if she hurts him. (Esme)

259. She hasn’t gone for his throat even once. (Carlisle)

260. Run away while you still can. (Bella)

261. You nicknamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster? (Bella)

262. Edward was still apologizing, and I didn’t think that was either fair or appropriate. After all, Edward hadn’t tried to rip Jacob’s head off – Jacob, who wouldn’t even phase to protect himself – and then accidentally broken Seth’s shoulder and collarbone when he jumped in between. Edward hadn’t almost killed his best friend. (Bella)

263. Bella, love, no one is judging you. You’re doing so well. (Edward)

264. I tried to erase the anger from my system entirely, but it was hard, knowing that Jacob was outside with Renesmee right now. Keeping her safe from me, the crazed newborn. (Bella)

265. I mean, at least you didn’t bite me or anything. That would’ve sucked. (Seth)

266. Lucky thing Ness – Renesmee’s not venomous. ‘Cause she bites Jake all the time. (Seth)

267. I wish treating humans were this instantaneously gratifying. (Carlisle)

268. Jacob, I thought, despite myself. Though that yearning was both vanished and defined – and I was vastly relieved that it was – he was still my friend. Someone who knew the real me and accepted her. Even has a monster. (Bella)

269. Thirstiness was way down the list right now. Besides, Renesmee smelled good in a very non-food way. (Bella)

270. Renesmee smiled her brilliant smile, and her memory eyes did not leave Jacob through all the following mess. I tasted a new flavor to the memory – not exactly protective, more possessive – as she watched Jacob. I got the distinct impression that she was glad Seth had put himself in front of my spring. She didn’t want Jacob hurt. He was hers. (Bella)

271. It’s just because he tastes better than the rest of us. (Edward)

272. For a tiny space, I was disappointed. What? No magic visions, no formidable offensive abilities like, oh, shooting lightning bolts from my eyes or something? Nothing helpful or cool at all? (Bella)

273. I know – I’ll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors. (Alice)

274. She has never been set down in her entire life. She’s going to be the most spoiled half-vampire in existence. (Alice)

275. I wasn’t afraid of hitting a tree; the tree would be the only one getting hurt in that scenario. (Bella)

276. You’re giving me a house for my birthday? (Bella)

277. Edward had always thought that he belonged to the world of horror stories. Of course, I’d known that he was dead wrong. It was obvious that he belonged here. In a fairy tale. And now I was in the story with him. (Bella)

278. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn’t giving in. (Bella)

279. We’re going to tell Alice that I ran right to the clothes. We’re going to tell her I spent hours in there playing dress-up. We’re going to lie. (Bella)

280. He had the most beautiful, perfect body in the world and I had him all to myself, and it didn’t feel like I was every going to find a point where I would think, Now I’ve had enough for one day. I was always going to want more. And the day was never going to end. So, in such a situation, how did we ever stop? It didn’t bother me at all that I had no answer. (Bella)

281. So it’s still standing? I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt? (Emmett)

282. The more time he spends here, the less chance there is that we’ll ever get the smell out. (Rosalie)

283. I’m sure you’ll ace your classes… apparently there’s nothing interesting for you to do at night besides study. (Emmett)

284. Look at you! You need me to show you how to use your closet. (Alice)

285. That’s just a theory, mongrel. You think we should test it out on Charlie? Did you consider the physical pain you’re putting Bella through, even if she can resist? Or the emotional pain if she doesn’t? I suppose what happens to Bella no longer concerns you! (Edward)

286. He’s brave. Brave as you are. Didn’t pass out or throw up or anything. I gotta say, I was impressed. You should’ve seen his face when I started taking my clothes off, though. Priceless. (Jacob)

287. You have thirty seconds to tell me every single word before I give Renesmee to Rosalie and rip your miserable head off. Seth won’t be able to stop me this time. (Bella)

288. Jeez, Bells. You didn’t used to be so melodramatic. Is that a vampire thing? (Jacob)

289. After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, ‘She wishes she was that cool!’ (Jacob)

290. Bella, things are different with us now, but you’ll always be my best friend, and I’ll always love you. But I’ll love you the right way now. There’s finally a balance. We both have people we can’t live without. (Jacob)

291. If I don’t kill Charlie tonight, I’ll consider forgiving you for this. (Bella)

292. I’m actually holding her so that my hands aren’t free to kill you, Jacob. (Bella)

293. No, I don’t care if you bite Jacob. That’s fine. (Edward)

294. As far as Charlie knows, you’re the most repulsive monster of us all. (Edward)

295. You gonna make me a grandpa so young? (Charlie)

296. ‘Bout time somebody scored around here. (Emmett)

297. Sturdy if good. She’ll need to be tough, surrounded by all this craziness. Prettiest baby I ever saw, including you, kid. Sorry, but it’s true. (Charlie)

298. I’m not even sure she’s really a vampire, let alone a newborn. She’s too tame. (Emmett)

299. It’s a little dense, don’t you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house? (Edward)

1. I’d had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn’t something you ever really got used to. (Bella)

2. You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? (Bella)

3. It was still considered rude to stare at people, wasn’t it? Didn’t that apply to me anymore? (Bella)

4. I was going without a lot of things these days, like Pop-Tarts and shoelaces, to avoid spending time in public. (Bella)

5. Personally, I didn’t get it. But then, I was just proud I could distinguish between the symbols for Toyota, Ford, and Chevy. This car was glossy black, sleek, and pretty, but it was still just a car to me. (Bella)

6. Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof? (Bella)

7. Virtual indestructibility was just one of the many perks I was looking forward to. The best parts about being a Cullen were not expensive cars and impressive credit cards. (Bella)

8. The phrase “bite my head off” was not entirely a figure of speech when it came to Leah. (Bella)

9. Stop fidgeting, Bella. Please try to remember that you’re not confessing to a murder here. (Edward)

10. Wait till he hangs his gun up! (Bella)

11. Edward grimaced, and I knew it was in objection to the