“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”

“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”

“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder”

“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, kne...”

“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.”

“You are my life now.”

“But it seems logical... a man and a woman have to be somewhat equal... as in, one of them can’t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally. .... I c...”

“You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.”