“Lie to me again," she whispered. "I love you," he said.”

“Lie to me again," she whispered. "I love you," he said.”

“It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.”

“Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.”

“Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.”

“Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition.""But I feel better," Jared answered, sullen.Doc smiled the tiniest smile. "Well, maybe a few more minutes of unconsciousness won't kill him.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on.”

“And so we carried on in our little piece of forever.”

“Lie to me again," she whispered. "I love you," he said.”

“Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.”