KB. Meyer Quotes

Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.

You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

Bella, there's a part of you that loves me.

You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.

You’ve never been a teenager, sweetie. You know what’s best for you.

I figured if I played nice, I’d get more time with you.

Darkness is so predictable.

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.

It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.

Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice.

So, Bella, I was following your scent through the woods after I'd left your room where I was watching you sleep...Yes that would be quite the ice breaker.

Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified."

Bella." Edward's voice was right beside me, relieved now. "Can you hear me?" "No," I groaned. "Go away.

I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

You’re monopolizing the bride,” Emmett said, coming up behind Edward’s shoulder. “Let me dance with my little sister. This could be my last chance to make her blush.

As if you could outrun me.

Love is simply where it is.

I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black.

no one had to tell me anything. I know what I am

I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

If you don’t send Edward out,” Emmett—still invisible in the night—hissed menacingly, “we’re coming in after him!” “Go,” I laughed. “Before they break my house.

The only reason I left was to protect you.

I had a secret that I was bound to protect but a secret that i was not to share. A secert that suddenly he knew all about.

How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?

You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.

He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It would cause me physical pain to be separated from him now.

Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger.

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

Jealous, O’Shea?" "Actually… I am.

May the best man win That's about right pup

He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.

You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.