Eclipse Quotes

Edward Cullen:

“Monsters are not a joke, Bella.”

“If we could bottle your luck, we’d have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.”

“I’ll never forgive myself for leaving you. Not if I live a hundred thousand years.”

“I don’t know how to phrase this properly. It’s going to sound cruel, I suppose. But I’ve come too close to losing you in the past. I know what it feels like to think I have. I am not going to tolerate anything dangerous.”

“The outside world holds no interest for me without you.”

“I’ll be back so soon you won’t have time to miss me. Look after my heart — I’ve left it with you.”

“You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours.”

“Holding grudges is not one of your many talents.”

“Are you trying to distract me? It’s working.”

“If there were any way for me to become human for you — no matter what the price was, I would pay it.”

“And the sound of your heart. It’s the most significant sound in my world.”

“She is mine. I didn’t say I would fight fair.”

“Never be afraid to tell me how you feel, Bella. If this is what you need… You are my first priority.”

“For this one night, could we try to forget everything besides just you and me? It seems like I can never get enough time like that. I need to be with you. Just you.”

“My heart is just as silent. And it, too, is yours.”

“Do you have any idea how painful it is, trying to refuse you when you plead with me this way?”

“You know that I’ve stolen, I’ve lied, I’ve coveted… my virtue is all I have left.”

“I had no right to want you — but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what’s become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.”

“Isabella Swan? I promise to love you forever — every single day of forever. Will you marry me?”

“You think of me as a… living stone — hard and cold. That’s true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There’s no going back…”

“As long as she wants me, I’m here.”

“All of my best nights have happened since I met you.”

“You know that you nearly gave me a heart attack? Not the easiest thing to do, that.”

Bella Swan:

“The word boyfriend had me chewing on the inside of my cheek with a familiar tension while I stirred. It wasn’t the right word, not at all. I needed something more expressive of eternal commitment… But words like destiny and fate sounded hokey when you used them in casual conversation.”

“It worked — your cooking skills have me soft as a marshmallow.”

“…and there he was, my personal miracle.”

“Staring into his eyes always made me feel extraordinary — sort of like my bones were turning spongy. I was also a little lightheaded, but that could have been because I’d forgotten to keep breathing. Again.”

“His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as if I’d been in pain and that pain had suddenly ceased.”

“I want to be a monster, too.”

“I think it’s something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart — not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end…”

“If I had my way, I would spend the majority of my time kissing Edward.”

“Being apart… It didn’t work out so well for either of us.”

“I love him. Not because he’s beautiful or because he’s rich! I’d much rather he weren’t either one. It would even out the gap between us just a little bit — because he’d still be the most loving and unselfish and brilliant and decent person I’ve ever met. Of course I love him. How hard is that to understand?”

“What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.”

“Most people fall in and out of love many times in their lives.”

“I’m a pro at weird.”

“I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland.”

“I’m going to spontaneously combust one of these days — and you’ll have no one but yourself to blame.”

“You can hold me hostage any time you want.”

“I felt like someone had kicked my legs out from under me. The weeks of stress, of worry… somehow in the middle of all my obsessing over the time, my time had disappeared. My space for sorting through it all, for making plans, had vanished. I was out of time.”

“Edward, there’s no point to forever without you. I wouldn’t want one day without you.”

“He was so beautiful that it made it hard sometimes to think about anything else.”

“There was just something about him being the one to make the choice — to want to keep me enough that he wouldn’t just allow me to be changed, he would act to keep me. It was childish, but I liked the idea that his lips would be the last good thing I would feel. Even more embarrassingly, something I would never say aloud, I wanted his venom to poison my system. It would make me belong to him in a tangible, quantifiable way.”

“I miss you when you’re not there. When you’re happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You’re family. I love you, but I’m not in love with you.”

“I don’t want to be happy with anyone but him.”

“This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine — like he was afraid we only had so much time left to us.”

“You’re in every thought I have.”

“You’re more important than everyone else. And you’ve given me you. That’s already more than I deserve, and anything else you give me just throws us more out of balance.”

“Here’s the thing… I’ve already gone crazy once. I know what my limits are. And I can’t stand it if you leave me again.”

“I wondered if I was a monster. Not the kind that he thought he was, but the real kind. The kind that hurt people. The kind that had no limits when it came to what they wanted.”

“After everything I’d seen in the past two years, I didn’t believe in the word impossible anymore. It was going to take more than that to stop me now.”

“It’s not like you didn’t know you were going to win in the end. You always win.”

“You can’t make me go somewhere you won’t be. That’s my definition of hell.”

“You’ve always seemed more like a dream than reality.”

“You said I could have any part of you I wanted. I want this part. I want every part.”

Jacob Black:

“I think I might have been wrong before, you know, about not being able to be friends. Maybe we could manage it, on my side of the line. Come see me.”

“I miss you every day, Bella. It’s not the same without you.”

“They shouldn’t exist. Their existence goes against nature.”

“You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.”

“There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half.”

“It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her… You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother.”

“But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else.”

“Does my being half-naked bother you?”

“What’s it like — having a vampire for a boyfriend?”

“What’s it like — having a werewolf for a best friend?”

“I’m in love with you, Bella. Bella, I love you. And I want you to pick me instead of him. I know you don’t feel that way, but I need the truth out there so that you know your options. I wouldn’t want a miscommunication to stand in our way.”

“You can have me the way I am — bad behavior included — or not at all.”

“You love me, too. Not the same way, I know. But he’s not your whole life, either. Not anymore. Maybe he was once, but he left. And now he’s just going to have to deal with the consequence of that choice — me.”

“Until your heart stops beating, Bella. I’ll be here — fighting. Don’t forget that you have options.”

“When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go. You could be happy with me.”

“According to you, you’ve kissed just one person — who isn’t even really a person — in your whole life, and you’re calling it quits? How do you know that’s what you want? Shouldn’t you play the field a little?”

“I think it’s easier for you to be near me when I’m not human, because you don’t have to pretend that you’re not attracted to me.”

“I’m not saying you don’t love him. I’m not stupid. But it’s possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I’ve seen it in action.”

“Go fetch a space heater. I’m not a St. Bernard.”

“He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.”

“I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us — comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken… If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic…”

“He’s like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can’t live without him now. It’s too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.”

“The clouds I can handle. But I can’t fight with an eclipse.”