Quotes from Stephenie Meyer

I'm just here to be your friend. Your best friend, one last time.

It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.

And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.

I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever.

I love you more than anything in the world combined.

Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

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

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

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

Life and love go on.

You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella

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.

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.

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.

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.

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.

There's something… strange about the way you two are together. The way he watches you — it's so… protective. Like he's about to throw himself in front of a bullet to save you or something.

Don't be afraid," i murmured. "We belong together.

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.

Love, life, meaning...over.