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Bella Swan, New Moon, Preface, p.1
Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.16
I’d rather die than be with anyone but you.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 2, p.45
I always want you.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.56
So much had changed, and so abruptly. It made me feel a little bit dizzy, like I was standing on an edge, a precipice somewhere much too high.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.60
Change was coming. I could feel it. It wasn’t a pleasant prospect, not when life was perfect the way it was.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.60
Where you are is the right place for me.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.69
You’re the very best part of my life.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.69
I don’t care! You can have my soul. I don’t want it without you—it’s yours already!
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.69
You… don’t… want me?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 3, p.69
It was depressing to realize that I wasn’t the heroine anymore, that my story was over.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 4, p.106
It was inevitable that I would have nightmares, but they wouldn’t be about zombies.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 4, p.107
As much as I struggled not to think of him, I did not struggle to forget. I worried—late in the night, when the exhaustion of sleep deprivation broke down my defenses—that it was all slipping away. That my mind was a sieve, and I would someday not be able to remember the precise color of his eyes, the feel of his cool skin, or the texture of his voice. I could not think of them, but I must remember them. Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live—I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 4, p.116
Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 4, p.117
It didn’t feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I’d grown strong enough to bear it.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 4, p.118
For the first time in a long time, I didn’t know what to expect in the morning.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 4, p.119
I wished I could feel numb again, but I couldn’t remember how I’d managed it before.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 5, p.123
I wondered how long this could last. Maybe someday, years from now—if the pain would just decrease to the point where I could bear it—I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life. And, if it were possible that the pain would ever soften enough to allow me to do that, I was sure that I would feel grateful for as much time as he’d given me. More than I’d asked for, more than I’d deserved. Maybe someday I’d be able to see it that way.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 5, p.124
As if he’d never existed? That was insanity. It was a promise that he could never keep, a promise that was broken as soon as he’d made it.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 5, p.125
Sometimes, kismet happens.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 5, p.126
I was enjoying myself—how strange.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.140
This had to be it, the recipe for a hallucination—adrenaline plus clanger plus stupidity. Something close to that, anyway.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 8, p.187
Did you know, you’re sort of beautiful?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 8, p.192
The hole came back, the way it always did when I was away from Jacob, but it didn’t throb so badly around the edges.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 8, p.193
I was like a lost moon—my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation—that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 9, p.201
How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 9, p.210
I needed him too much, and I was selfish.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 9, p.217
He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 9, p.219
There was too much pain in this empty place to bear—I would crawl away if I had to.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 10, p.235
Are you… breaking up with me?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 11, p.270
I’d lost too much already—would fate take the last few shreds of peace left behind?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 15, p.355
I was probably overdoing it with the antagonism, but I didn’t want him to see how much this hurt.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 18, p.406
The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn’t break any spells?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 18, p.411
At least I could be with him again before I died. That was better than a long life.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 20, p.459
Is it really sick for me to be happy right now?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 22, p.488
It was heaven—right smack in the middle of hell.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 22, p.491
I don’t want to sleep. If I close my eyes now, I’ll see things I don’t want to see. I’ll have nightmares.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 22, p.494
If I was in hell, you wouldn’t be with me.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.503
It never made sense for you to love me. I always knew that.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.511
What kind of an idiotic question is that?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.511
Of course I love you—and there’s nothing you can do about it!
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 23, p.512
I don’t trust myself to be… enough. To deserve you. There’s nothing about me that could hold you.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.523
Hold on a second. I think I’m having an epiphany here.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.526
What if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.527
Thank you. For wanting to keep me. I feel exactly the same way about all of you, too.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 24, p.535
Let me go! I’m going to murder him! Traitor!
Bella Swan, New Moon, Epilogue, p.554
Edward was here, with his arms around me. I could face anything as long as that was true. I squared my shoulders and walked forward to meet my fate, with my destiny solidly at my side.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Epilogue, p.563