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  • Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don't know that I'm an example. I hate to say, 'Yes, look at me. I'm a good example of being Mormon.' I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I'm a good example.

  • I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

  • You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

  • I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

  • When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

  • I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

  • What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

  • Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.

  • The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a really good outline for 'Breaking Dawn' - it's very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn't, there might have been a lot of pressure.

  • Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?

  • I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

  • I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

  • It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

  • You are so bizarre, even for a human." "Thanks.

  • There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head.

  • I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

  • It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

  • Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

  • When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me.

  • I felt like - like I don't know what. Like this wasn't real. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom. Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire's wife to shack up and procreate. Nice. - Jacob

  • It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share

  • No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot.

  • It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?

  • I'd forgotten how exuberant you are

  • Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

  • No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

  • #ERROR!

  • Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors- nodded his agreement."

  • It's twilight. It's the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?"

  • What kind of an idiotic question is that?"

  • You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires.

  • Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

  • how can a little thing be so annoying?

  • Alice! You know I love you like a sister!" "Words." she growled.

  • Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

  • If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

  • Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You're not taking him to a strip club, are you?

  • If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

  • You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

  • But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever - Bella Cullen

  • Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

  • My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan

  • Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. -- Bella Cullen

  • There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen

  • He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.

  • I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

  • Why am I covered in feathers

  • Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.

  • I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.

  • Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.

  • I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

  • Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you

  • Fall down again, Bella?' No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.

  • Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

  • i want you, and i want you forever. one lifetime is simply not enough for me.

  • It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.

  • I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.

  • My mother is part albino." Bella Swan

  • After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3

  • What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!

  • Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

  • I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

  • When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy

  • Ew. Someone put the dog out, "Rosalie murmured wrinkling her nose. Have you herd this one, Psycho? how do a blond's brain cells die?" She didn't say anything. Well?" I asked."Do you know the punch line or not?" She looked pointedly at the TV and ignored me. Has she heard it?" I asked Edward. No." He answered. Awesome. So you'll enjoy this, bloodsucker--a blond's brain cells die alone.

  • If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

  • Do you want me to sing to you? I'll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away.

  • I came to witness. I stay to fight.

  • Forever," Edward echoed in my ear. 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.

  • non-reality was black, and it didn't hurt so much.

  • My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

  • Time means little; I never notice its passing.

  • and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

  • 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.

  • Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

  • You're not the center of the universe, you know.

  • Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

  • Sister, they send you out for one and you bring back two... and a half. Such a clever girl.

  • Happy birthday," he sighed, and leaned down to touch his lips to mine. I reached up on my toes to make the kiss last longer when he pulled away. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, and then he disappeared into the darkness.

  • Fine,' Jared snapped. 'But if you try cuddling up to me tonight... so help me, O'Shea." Ian chuckled. ' Not to sound overly arrogant, but to be perfectly honest, Jared, were I so inclined, I think I could do better.

  • I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

  • The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

  • He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

  • Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.

  • Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607

  • The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale.

  • Woo!" Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!" Jacob and Charlie jumped. The rest of us froze. Charlie recovered, then looked at Emmett over his shoulder. "Florida winning?" "Just scored the first touchdown," Emmett confirmed. He shot a look in my direction, wagging his eyebrows like a villain in vaudville. "'Bout time somebody scored around here.

  • ...the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than kiss itself.

  • He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. "Would you please tell me what you're thinking? Before I go mad?

  • Hey, do you know what you call a blond with a brain?" I asked, and the continued on the same breath, "a golden retriever." I've heard that one, too," she said, no longer smiling. I'll keep trying." I promised.

  • We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

  • I'm not dangerous at all I never hurt Grandpa or Sue or Billy. I love humans. And wolf-people like my Jacob."Renesmee dropped Edward's hand to reach back and pat Jacob's arm.

  • I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.

  • I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

  • Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done.

  • It's pretty obvious, isn't it? I'm joining your crappy little renegade pack. The vampires' guard dogs.

  • I hate myself for liking you.

  • Mike's eyes narrowed shrewdly. "Don't kid yourself, Bella. The guy's head over heels for you." "I know," I sighed. "Life is complicated." "And girls are cruel," Mike said under his breath.

  • Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

  • Hey Jacob!" I felt an unfamiliar surge of enthusiasm at his smile. I realized that I was pleased to see him. This knowledge surprised me. I smiled back, and something clicked silently into place, like two corresponding puzzle pieces. I'd forgotten how much I really liked Jacob Black.

  • I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner." - Wanda, The Host

  • And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways.

  • I love you more than anything in the world combined.

  • Run, Bella, run. I love you too much, for your good or mine.

  • The worst part is that I saw the whole thing -- our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can't, and it's killing me.

  • I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.

  • Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon

  • Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

  • Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear.

  • You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.

  • But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.

  • One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

  • The part that kills me is that you already know. I already told you everything!

  • So, how come Jacob Black gets to give you a gift and I don't? Because I have nothing to give back to you. Bella, you give me everything just by breathing.

  • It's not what you are. It's what you do.

  • Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black

  • Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time?

  • Sometimes, kismet happens.

  • I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends. If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Culllen. And that was very, very stupid.

  • Edward: It wasn't the worst night of my life. Jake: Did it make the top ten? Edward: Possibly. But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that.

  • Life sucks, and then you die...

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