The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along.

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

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.