It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.
And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.
Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.
Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607
Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf." "Sometimes I do. It probably has something to do with the way you CAN'T TALK.
Don't worry, Mel. Miracles don't work that way. I'll never lose you. I'll never let you get away from me.
Maybe you'll get lucky." I said bleakly, lurching on my feet. "Maybe I'll get hit by a truck on my way back.
By the way, I love you.” “That’s why we're here.
You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.
no two writers go about things in exactly the same way (intro)
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.
And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways.
He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way you look right now...You're much more than beautiful.
And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend?
I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.
There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen
The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love you—and there's nothing you can do about it!” “That's all I needed to hear.
Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host
I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.
And it was different because I'd already lost her so many times, so many ways, in my head. And different because she was never really mine to lose. And different because this wasn't my fault.
After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?