Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon

Who are you and what have you done with my brother?

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?

You're not the center of the universe, you know.

I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too.

He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan

I feel happy and hearty grateful.

A monster, some called her. But in the shadows, only said in whispers, she was an angel in red.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

Je cherche à comprendre.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.