Favorite New Moon Quotes

Romeo wouldn't change his mind. That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers: Romeo and Juliet. That's why it was a good story. "Juliet gets dumped and ends up with Paris" would have never been a hit.

I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can’t make your body move fast enough. ~ Bella

As the clock began to toll out the hour, vibrating under the soles of my sluggish feet, I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live. ~Bella

Which is tempting you more, my blood or my body? ~Bella

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. ~Bella
Option one: I was crazy. That was the layman's term for people who heard voices in their heads. ~Bella

Even the voice in my head was making no sense today. ~Bella

Happiness. It made the whole dying thing pretty bearable. ~Bella

It was heaven--right smack in the middle of hell. ~Bella

The most absurd, ridiculous concept--as if there were any way I could exist without needing you. ~Edward

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. ~Edward

It never made sense for you to love me. ~Bella

Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again. ~Edward

Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars--points of light and reason...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything. ~Edward

Your hold on me is permanent and unbreakable. Never doubt that. ~Edward