Quotes from Stephenie Meyer

I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.

Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn't want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.

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?

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

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

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.

Romeo wouldn't change his mind. That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I've ever grasped how much pain she's really in.

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

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.

Of course, you'd warm up faster if you took your clothes off.

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

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

You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!

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.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

I promise that this will be the last time you'll see me. I won't come back. I won't put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed.