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“Perhaps romance always seemed a slightly foolish thing to everyone until one actually fell into it.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I knew her well enough to see that the sight of so many books in one room was something of a dream to her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I buried my face in the hollow of her neck and breathed in her searing essence, wishing again, as I had in the beginning, that I could dream with her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“As I met her penetrating gaze, read the surprise and the sympathy there, I abruptly yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to dream. Maybe if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”
― stephenie meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

“Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“The intensity of my grief hits the mountains across Eclipse Sound, and then echoes throughout Arctic. There’s nobody around. I can barely see the town below the hill, nestled within the valley of barren tundra, across from the tiny airport, my only access to the south. I’m alone amidst this desolate landscape and there’s nowhere to hide. No trees or buildings or distractions. It’s just me in the depths of my suffering and all my faults and mistakes of the past are exposed underneath the spotlight of the midnight sun.”
― Shannon M Mullen, See What Flowers

“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; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“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 does. Even for me.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“I honestly have no idea how to live without you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn’t want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept—as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you!”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“I wondered how long it could last. Maybe someday, years from now.If the pain would decrease to the point where I could bear it.I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Your hold on me is permanent and unbreakable. Never doubt that”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“When you can’t be with the one you love, will you stay with the one who loves you?”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“The absence of him is everywhere I look.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“The smile broke across his face the way the sunrise set the clouds on fire...”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen... ”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon