All quotes are listed in the order they appeared in New Moon. Please contact me about any mistakes.

Thanks to TwilightGuide.com.



1. My own life meant little to me today. (Bella)

2. I didn’t have to look to know who it was; this was a voice I would know anywhere—know, and respond to, whether I was awake or asleep… or even dead, I’d bet. The voice I’d walk through fire for—or, less dramatically, slosh every day through the cold and endless rain for. Edward. (Bella)

3. Well, Gran, you might have noticed that my boyfriend glitters. It’s just something he does in the sun. Don’t worry about it… (Bella)

4. Edward stood beside me, casting no reflection, excruciatingly lovely and forever seventeen. (Bella)

5. I couldn’t feel anything but despair until I pulled into the familiar parking lot behind Forks High School and spotted Edward leaning motionlessly against his polished silver Volvo, like a marble tribute to some forgotten pagan god of beauty. (Bella)

6. You’re only a senior once. Might as well document the experience. (Alice)

7. How many times have you been a senior? (Bella)

8. So, as discussed, I am not allowed to wish you a happy birthday, is that correct? (Edward)

9. Attention is never a good thing, as any other accident-prone klutz would agree. No one wants a spotlight when they’re likely to fall on their face. (Bella)

10. College was Plan B. I was still hoping for Plan A, but Edward was just so stubborn about leaving me human… (Bella)

11. Money meant next to nothing to Edward or the rest of the Cullens. It was just something that accumulated when you had unlimited time on your hands and a sister who had an uncanny ability to predict trends in the stock market. (Bella)

12. You want a nice stereo? Drive your own car. (Bella)

13. Edward had drawn many careful lines for our physical relationship, with the intent being to keep me alive. Though I respected the need for maintaining a safe distance between my skin and his razor-sharp, venom-coated teeth, I tended to forget about trivial things like that when he was kissing me. (Bella)

14. 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)

15. You know, I’ve never had much patience with Romeo. (Edward)

16. Anyway, you don’t irritate the Volturi. Not unless you want to die—or whatever it is we do. (Edward)

17. No matter what might ever happen to me, you are not allowed to hurt yourself! (Bella)

18. I’ll never put you in danger again, so it’s a moot point. (Edward)

19. Put me in danger! I thought we’d established that all the bad luck is my fault? (Bella)

20. What if something did happen to you? Would you want me to go off myself? (Bella)

21. If I develop this film, will you show up in the picture? (Bella)

22. Sorry about this, Bella. We couldn’t rein Alice in. (Carlisle)

23. I have to step out for a second. Don’t do anything funny while I’m gone. (Emmett)

24. Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm — into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. (Bella)

25. Edward stood over me, still protective, still not breathing. (Bella)

26. Well, that’s everyone. I can clear a room, at least. (Bella)

27. I couldn’t imagine anyone, deity included, who wouldn’t be impressed by Carlisle. Besides, the only kind of heaven I could appreciate would have to include Edward. (Bella)

28. I look at my… son. His strength, his goodness, the brightness that shines out of him—and it only fuels that hope, that faith, more than ever. How could there not be more for one such as Edward? (Carlisle)

29. If you believed as he did. Could you take away his soul? (Carlisle)

30. If he’d asked me whether I would risk my soul for Edward, the reply would be obvious. But would I risk Edward’s soul? I pursed my lips unhappily. That wasn’t a fair exchange. (Bella)

31. Tonight is exactly the kind of thing that he fears the most. You being put in danger, because of what we are. (Carlisle)

32. Carlisle sews faster than any other doctor I’ve had. (Bella)

33. Charlie was never surprised to see me bandaged. (Bella)

34. Bella, you gave yourself a paper cut — that hardly deserves the death penalty. (Edward)

35. Don’t try to take any of this on yourself, Bella. It will only make me more disgusted with myself. (Edward)

36. I’d rather die than be with anyone but you. (Bella)

37. You can’t have it both ways—either you want people to ignore your birthday or you don’t. One or the other. (Edward)

38. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, and then he disappeared into the darkness. (Bella)

39. You’re greedy tonight. (Edward)

40. You’re overestimating my self-control. (Edward)

41. Which is tempting you more, my blood or my body? (Bella)

42. The guilt made my head bow and my shoulders slump. I’d run them out of their home, just like Rosalie and Emmett. I was a plague. (Bella)

43. Surely Edward could wait a year. What was a year to an immortal? It didn’t even seem like that much to me. (Bella)

44. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for normal human behavior today. (Bella)

45. Edward looked just as beautiful as he did in real life, staring at me out of the picture with the warm eyes I’d missed for the past few days. It was almost uncanny that anyone could look so… so… beyond description. No thousand words could equal this picture. (Bella)

46. The contrast between the two of us was painful. He looked like a god. I looked very average, even for a human, almost shamefully plain. (Bella)

47. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, but it was wrong. It didn’t reach his eyes. (Bella)

48. I don’t care! You can have my soul. I don’t want it without you—it’s yours already! (Bella)

49. You… don’t… want me? (Bella)

50. Of course, I’ll always love you… in a way. But what happened the other night made me realize that it’s time for a change. Because I’m… tired of pretending to be something I’m not, Bella. I am not human. (Edward)

51. You’re not good for me, Bella. (Edward)

52. I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed. (Edward)

53. Don’t worry. You’re human—your memory is no more than a sieve. Time heals all wounds for your kind. (Edward)

54. Well, I won’t forget. But my kind… we’re very easily distracted. (Edward)

55. With shaky legs, ignoring the fact that my action was useless, I followed him into the forest. The evidence of his path had disappeared instantly. There were no footprints, the leaves were still again, but I walked forward without thinking. I could not do anything else. I had to keep moving. If I stopped looking for him, it was over. Love, life, meaning… over. (Bella)

56. No, I don’t think she’s hurt. She just keeps saying ‘He’s gone.’ (Sam)

57. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface. (Bella)

58. I didn’t know much about psychoanalysis, but I was pretty sure that it didn’t work unless the subject was relatively honest. Sure, I could tell the truth—if I wanted to spend the rest of my life in a padded cell. (Bella)

59. I don’t think I can live through seeing you try harder. I’ve never seen anyone trying so hard. It hurts to watch. (Charlie)

60. The scene kept cutting between the horrified face of the heroine, and the dead, emotionless face of her pursuer, back and forth as it closed the distance. And I realized which one resembled me the most. (Bella)

61. I sat down on the bench outside the theater door and tried very hard not to think of the irony. But it was ironic, all things considered, that, in the end, I would wind up as a zombie. I hadn’t seen that one coming. (Bella)

62. It was depressing to realize that I wasn’t the heroine anymore, that my story was over. (Bella)

63. It was inevitable that I would have nightmares, but they wouldn’t be about zombies. (Bella)

64. Are you crazy? Are you suicidal? (Jessica)

65. Option one: I was crazy. That was the layman’s term for people who heard voices in their heads. Possible. (Bella)

66. What were you thinking? You don’t know them—they could have been psychopaths! (Jessica)

67. Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk. (Bella)

68. 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)

69. Reckless in Forks—now there was a hopeless proposition. (Bella)

70. To be reckless in Forks would take a lot of creativity—maybe more than I had. But I wished I could find some way… I might feel better if I weren’t holding fast, all alone, to a broken pact. (Bella)

71. Who would want to ride a motorcycle here? It would be like taking a sixty-mile-per-hour bath. (Bella)

72. I wanted to be stupid and reckless, and I wanted to break promises. Why stop at one? (Bella)

73. I liked my truck very much, but Jacob seemed to consider the speed restrictions a shortcoming. (Bella)

74. You grew again! (Bella)

75. Wait a sec—are you legal yet? (Bella)

76. Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. (Bella)

66. Many of the words they used were unfamiliar to me, and I figured I’d have to have a Y chromosome to really understand the excitement. (Bella)

78. I was enjoying myself—how strange. (Bella)

79. I’m bankrolling this party. You just have to supply the labor and expertise. (Bella)

80. So where to, Mr. Goodwrench? (Bella)

81. It’s not my fault you’re a freak. (Bella)

82. By the time we got back to La Push, I was twenty-three and he was thirty—he was definitely weighting skills in his favor. (Bella)

83. I was beginning to get annoyed with myself. I might as well have been packed in Styrofoam peanuts through the last semester. (Bella)

84. Had all the people she was habitually nasty to caught her behind the gym and scalped her? (Bella)

85. Oh, joy. Bella’s back. (Lauren)

86. I wasn’t sure what the hell I was doing here. Was I trying to push myself back into the zombie stupor? Had I turned masochistic—developed a taste for torture? (Bella)

87. I guess I am taking advantage of your very underpriced mechanical skills. But as long as you let me come over, I’ll be here. (Bella)

88. Here’s to responsibility. Twice a week. (Jacob)

89. They’re just cliff diving, Bella. Recreation. La Push doesn’t have a mall, you know. (Jacob)

90. Sometimes you’re a little strange, Bella. Do you know that? (Jacob)

91. I swear, they’re like hall monitors gone bad. (Jacob)

92. I threw my arms around him instinctively, wrapping them around his waist and pressing my face against his chest. He was so big, I felt like I was a child hugging a grown-up. (Bella)

93. This didn’t feel anything like the last time someone had embraced me this way. This was friendship. And Jacob was very warm. (Bella)

94. If this is how you’re going to react, I’ll freak out more often. (Jacob)

95. It’s hard to believe I’m two years older than you. You make me feel like a dwarf. (Bella)

96. Let’s not start with the albino cracks. (Bella)

97. That doesn’t sound right. Aren’t both brakes kind of important? (Bella)

98. This had to be it, the recipe for a hallucination—adrenaline plus clanger plus stupidity. Something close to that, anyway. (Bella)

99. Why are you apologizing for bleeding? (Jacob)

100. I’m an easy bleeder. It’s not nearly as dire as it looks. (Bella)

101. Racing down the road like that had been amazing. The feel of the wind in my face, the speed and the freedom… it reminded me of a past life, flying through the thick forest without a road, piggyback while he ran—I stopped thinking right there, letting the memory break off in the sudden agony. (Bella)

102. Charlie seemed to buy my story about falling in Jacob’s garage. After all, it wasn’t like I hadn’t been able to land myself in the ER before with no more help than my own feet. (Bella)

103. As always, Jacob was game for anything I wanted. No matter how strange it was. (Bella)

104. Bears don’t want to eat people. We don’t taste that good. Of course, you might be an exception. I bet you’d taste good. (Jacob)

105. 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)

106. So are you going to be my Valentine? Since you didn’t get me a fifty-cent box of candy, it’s the least you can do. (Jacob)

107. I’m in the mood for action. Bring on the blood and guts! (Bella)

108. I’m giving up—I can’t top this one. So you win. You’re oldest. (Bella)

109. I told him you were planning to corrupt my youthful innocence. (Jacob)

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

111. What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit. (Jacob)

112. As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent. (Jacob)

113. The pin’s out of the grenade for me, now, eh? (Jacob)

114. Do you honestly expect me to remember where all my scars come from? (Bella)

I15. I waited for the memory to hit—to open the gaping hole. But, as it so often did, Jacob’s presence kept me whole. (Bella)

116. He deserved better than that—better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order. (Bella)

117. How much I wished that Jacob Black had been born my brother, my flesh-and -blood brother, so that I would have some legitimate claim on him that still left me free of any blame now. (Bella)

118. I’d give Billy a week, I decided, before I got pushy. A week was generous. (Bella)

119. I wasn’t really listening to his warnings; I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear. (Bella)

120. It was ridiculous that I should be so elated because a vampire knew my name. (Bella)

121. I’m surprised they left you behind. Weren’t you sort of a pet of theirs? (Laurent)

122. Was I nor in the worst danger imaginable? The motorcycle was safe as kittens next to this. (Bella)



What are your favorite quotes, and why do you love them?