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

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1. I’d had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn’t something you ever really got used to. (Bella)

2. You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? (Bella)

3. It was still considered rude to stare at people, wasn’t it? Didn’t that apply to me anymore? (Bella)

4. I was going without a lot of things these days, like Pop-Tarts and shoelaces, to avoid spending time in public. (Bella)

5. Personally, I didn’t get it. But then, I was just proud I could distinguish between the symbols for Toyota, Ford, and Chevy. This car was glossy black, sleek, and pretty, but it was still just a car to me. (Bella)

6. Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof? (Bella)

7. Virtual indestructibility was just one of the many perks I was looking forward to. The best parts about being a Cullen were not expensive cars and impressive credit cards. (Bella)

8. The phrase “bite my head off” was not entirely a figure of speech when it came to Leah. (Bella)

9. Stop fidgeting, Bella. Please try to remember that you’re not confessing to a murder here. (Edward)

10. Wait till he hangs his gun up! (Bella)

11. Edward grimaced, and I knew it was in objection to the word okay. He probably would have used something more like wonderful or perfect or glorious. (Bella)

12. I wanted to elbow Edward in the ribs, but I knew that move would only give me a bruise. I’d told Edward that people would immediately jump to this conclusion! What other possible reason would sane people have for getting married at eighteen? (His answer then had made me roll my eyes. Love. Right.) (Bella)

13. The ultimate doom: telling Renée. Early marriage was higher up on her blacklist than boiling live puppies. (Bella)

14. You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. (Renee)

15. No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot. (Alice)

16. Go to your happy place, Bella. It won’t take long. (Alice)

17. You’d think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice)

18. Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire. (Bella)

19. I opened my eyes and found his open, too, staring at my face. It made no sense when he looked at me that way. Like I was the prize rather than the outrageously lucky winner. (Bella)

20. Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point. (Edward)

21. How different it would be when he didn’t need to worry about me anymore. What would he do with all his free time? He’d have to get a new hobby. (Bella)

22. I’ve been waiting a century to marry you, Miss Swan. (Edward)

23. I clutched him closer for one second and then released him. I didn’t have a prayer of winning a tug-of-war with Emmett. (Bella)

24. If you don’t send Edward out, we’re coming in after him! (Emmett)

25. Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You’re not taking him to a strip club, are you? (Bella)

26. I’ve only allotted so much time to make you stunning, Bella – you might have taken better care of my raw material. (Alice)

27. No one will dare to call you plain when I’m through with you. (Alice)

28. Deep breaths, Bella. And try to lower your heart rate. You’re going to sweat off your new face. (Alice)

29. Bells, we’re up to bat. (Charlie)

30. Don’t let me fall, Dad. (Bella)

31. I tried to comprehend, through the film of tears blinding me, the surreal fact that this amazing person was mine. (Bella)

32. One scorching hug stood out from all the others – Seth Clearwater had braved the throng of vampires to stand in for my lost werewolf friend. (Bella)

33. We took turns shoving cake in each other’s faces; Edward manfully swallowed his portion as I watched in disbelief. I threw my bouquet with atypical skill, right into Angela’s surprised hands. Emmett and Jasper howled with laughter at my blush while Edward removed my borrowed garter – which I’d shimmied down nearly to my ankle – very carefully with his teeth. With a quick wink at me, he shot it straight into Mike Newton’s face. (Bella)

34. I feel just horrible, leaving you to cook for yourself – it’s practically criminal negligence. You could arrest me. (Bella)

35. Stop blubbering, Bella. You’ll ruin your dress. It’s just me. (Jacob)

36. Yeah – the party can start. The best man finally made it. (Jacob)

37. I tell you, if I could get rid of the voices in my head, being a wolf would be about perfect. (Jacob)

38. Insanity is probably easier than sharing a pack mind. Crazy people’s voices don’t send babysitters to watch them. (Jacob)

39. Alice is an unstoppable force of nature. (Bella)

40. I’d been so glad to see Jacob here. I knew the sacrifice it had taken him. And then I’d ruined it, turned his gift into a disaster. I should be quarantined. (Bella)

41. You’re monopolizing the bride. Let me dance with my little sister. This could be my last chance to make her blush. (Emmett)

42. You’re awfully small to be so hugely irritating. (Edward)

43. Oh well, I thought to myself. He was a vampire, after all. Maybe we were going to Atlantis. (Bella)

44. I’m sure you’d like a human minute or two… It was a long journey. (Edward)

45. Did my skin burst into flames? I had to look down to check. Nope, nothing was burning. At least, not visibly. (Bella)

46. I was freaking out because I had no idea how to do this, and I was afraid to walk out of this room and face the unknown. Especially in French lingerie. I knew I wasn’t ready for that yet. (Bella)

47. I wouldn’t use the word beautiful. Not with you standing here in comparison. (Edward)

48. Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him. (Bella)

49. Stop acting like I’m not a monster for having agreed to this. (Edward)

50. Why am I covered in feathers? (Bella)

51. You… bit a pillow? Why? (Bella)

52. Do not say the word fine. If you value my sanity, do not say that you are fine. (Edward)

53. I was perfectly happy. Totally and completely blissed out. Now – well, I’m sort of pissed actually. (Bella)

54. That. That right there is why I’m angry. You are killing my buzz, Edward.(Bella)

55. Did you expect this, Bella? Were you anticipating that I would hurt you? Were you thinking it would be worse? Do you consider the experiment a success because you can walk away from it? No broken bones – that equals a victory? (Edward)

56. I can’t ignore the evidence, Bella. Or your history of trying to let me off the hook when I make mistakes. (Edward)

57. We’re just lucky it was the pillows and not you. (Edward)

58. You are making me insane, Bella. (Edward)

59. You are so human, Bella. Ruled by your hormones. (Edward)

60. You haven’t said a word in your sleep since we got here. If it weren’t for the snoring, I’d worry you were slipping into a coma. (Edward)

61. In this dream that was both new and old, I simply had to protect the unknown child. There was no other option. At the same time, I knew that I would fail. (Bella)

62. Do you want me to sing to you? I’ll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away. (Edward)

63. How much trouble am I in? (Bella)

64. The pillows all appear to have survived. (Bella)

65. You seem to be extraordinarily unobservant when your attention is otherwise involved. (Edward)

66. You look so guilty – like you’ve committed a crime. (Edward)

67. So you seduced your all-too-willing husband. That’s not a capital offense. (Edward)

68. If I don’t have a better sense of equilibrium in my next life, I’m demanding a refund. (Bella)

69. Sex was the key all along? Why didn’t I think of that? I could have saved myself a lot of arguments. (Edward)

70. I don’t know… I’ve already mangled the headboard in the other room beyond repair – maybe if we limit the destruction to one area of the house, Esme might invite us back someday. (Edward)

71. Are you trying to pass this illness off as PMS? (Edward)

72. The phone kept ringing. I wished Edward would answer it – I was having a moment. Possibly the biggest of my life. (Bella)

73. I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? (Bella)

74. Surprising, absolutely. Astonishing, even. But wrong? No. So why was Edward so furious? He was the one who had actually wished out loud for a shotgun wedding. (Bella)

75. This child, Edward’s child, was a whole different story. I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice – a necessity. (Bella)

76. I wished I could speak Portuguese, or that my Spanish was less rudimentary, so that I could try to thank this woman who had dared to anger a vampire just to check on me. (Bella)

77. All this mandatory love-at-first-sight was completely sickening! (Jacob)

78. I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up? (Jacob)

79. Bella was either coming back one of them, or not coming back. Either way, a human life had been lost. And that meant game on. (Jacob)

80. You missed the party. Princess theme. She made me wear a crown, and then Emily suggested they all try out her new play makeup on me. (Quil)

81. It was hard being around imprinted people. No matter what stage they were in – about to tie the knot like Sam or just a much-abused nanny like Quil – the peace and certainty they always radiated was downright puke-inducing. (Jacob)

82. I honor my pack. I do what’s best for them. (Sam)

83. Huh – I wondered if Sam would consider my death provocation. Probably say I got what I deserved. Wouldn’t want to offend his bloodsucker BFFs. (Jacob)

84. Ugh. Reeking vampires. (Jacob)

85. If there was such a thing as a safe vampire, it was the strangely gentle leader. (Jacob)

86. They were all here, all together, but that was not what froze me where I stood and had my jaw dropping to the floor. It was Edward. It was the expression on his face. I’d seen him angry, and I’d seen him arrogant, and once I’d seen him in pain. But this – this was beyond agony. His eyes were half-crazed. He didn’t look up to glare at me. He stared down at the couch beside him with an expression like someone had lit him on fire. His hands were rigid claws at his side. (Jacob)

87. I didn’t want to see this, didn’t want to think about this. I didn’t want to imagine him inside her. I didn’t want to know that something I hated so much had taken root in the body I loved. (Jacob)

88. I didn’t want to kill girls… even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde. (Jacob)

89. I’m not ready for you to kill me yet, Jacob Black. You’ll have to have a little patience. (Edward)

90. This was the face a man would have if he were burning at the stake. (Jacob)

91. Jeez, she was running true to form. Of course, die for the monster spawn. It was so Bella. (Jacob)

92. Did you ever notice that she’s exactly as strong as a normal hundred-and-ten-pound human girl? How stupid are you vamps? Hold her down and knock her out with drugs. (Jacob)

93. Maybe he should have thought about all this before he knocked her up with the life-sucking monster. (Jacob)

94. Even you, Jacob Black, cannot hate me as much as I hate myself. (Edward)

95. You know her, Jacob. You connect to her on a level that I don’t even understand. You are part of her, and she is part of you. (Edward)

96. I wondered if he was really going crazy. Could vampires lose their minds? (Jacob)

97. I don’t care about anything but keeping her alive. If it’s a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants. She can have puppies, if that’s what it takes. (Edward)

98. I couldn’t think about what he was suggesting. It was too much. Impossible. Wrong. Sick. Borrowing Bella for the weekends and then returning her Monday morning like a rental movie? SO messed up. So tempting. (Jacob)

99. Make Bella see sense? What universe do you live in? (Jacob)

100. Where is this psycho crap coming from? Are you making this up as you go? (Jacob)

101. I couldn’t believe I was even thinking about this. Bella would punch me – not that I cared about that, but it would probably break her hand again. (Jacob)
102. The moment Bella’s heart stops beating, I will be begging for you to kill me. (Edward)

103. I felt like – like I don’t know what. Like this wasn’t real. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom. Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire’s wife to shack up and procreate. Nice. (Jacob)

104. Over my pile of ashes. (Rosalie)

105. I’m not going to lie, Bells. You’re hideous. (Jacob)

106. Did you know that ‘I told you so’ has a brother, Jacob? His name is ‘Shut the hell up.’ (Bella)

107. To talk some sense into you. There’s a battle that’s lost before it starts. (Jacob)

108. I did know this – every second I spent with her was only going to add to the pain I would have to suffer later. Like a junkie with a limited supply, the day of reckoning was coming for me. The more hits I took now, the harder it would be when my supply ran out. (Jacob)

109. Is dementia one of your symptoms? (Jacob)

110. I’m not saying things will work out easily, Jake. But how could I have lived through all that I’ve lived through and not believe in magic by this point? (Bella)

111. If she hadn’t looked so fragile I would’ve been screaming. As it was, I did growl at her. (Jacob)

112. If you think that imprinting could ever make sense of this insanity… Do you really think that just because I might someday imprint on some stranger it would make this right? Tell me what the point was then, Bella! What was the point of me loving you? What was the point of you loving him? When you die, how is that ever right again? What’s the point to all the pain? Mine, yours, his! You’ll kill him, too, not that I care about that. So what was the point of your twisted love story, in the end? If there is any sense, please show me, Bella, because I don’t see it. (Jacob)

113. You’re dying for nothing, Bella! Nothing! (Jacob)

114. Emergency vampirization. (Jacob)

115. I realized I needed her to stay alive, in some form. In any form. (Jacob)

116. Oh, I hadn’t heard the great news. A bouncing baby boy, huh? Shoulda brought some blue balloons. (Jacob)

117. Shut up, Bella. You can spout this crap to your bloodsucker, but you’re not fooling me. (Jacob)

118. Please, Jacob. You think I should kill my baby and replace it with some generic substitute? (Bella)

119. I told you he was going crazy. Literally, Bells. (Jacob)

120. I wish I could explain it to you right so that you would understand. I can’t hurt him any more than I could pick up a gun and shoot you. I love him. (Bella)

121. Why do you always have to love the wrong things, Bella? (Jacob)

122. I’m not going to hang around and watch you die, Bella. (Jacob)

123. I almost went back. I almost turned around and fell down on my knees and started begging again. But I knew that I had to quit Bella, quit her cold turkey, before she killed me, like she was going to kill him. (Jacob)

124. You will not be cruel to him, Leah. Bella’s sacrifice is a heavy price, and we will all recognize that. It is against everything we stand for to take a human life. Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing. We will all mourn for what we do tonight. (Sam)

125. There was fear in the pack, not so much for self but for the whole. We couldn’t imagine that we would all make it out alive tonight. Which brothers would we lose? Which minds would leave us forever? Which grieving families would we be consoling in the morning? (Jacob)

126. No one could dispute the Alpha’s decision – except for me. I hadn’t earned anything. But there were things that had been born in me, things that I’d left unclaimed. I’d never wanted to lead the pack. I didn’t want to do it now. I didn’t want the responsibility for all our fates resting on my shoulders. Sam was better at that than I would ever be. But he was wrong tonight. And I had not been born to kneel to him. The bonds fell off my body the second that I embraced my birthright. (Jacob)

127. This isn’t about them. This is about Bella. She has never been the one for you, she had never chosen you, but you continue to destroy your life for her! (Sam)

129. Do you belong to a coven now, Jacob? (Sam)

130. How did everything get messed up and twisted so that I was here now, all alone, an unwilling Alpha, cut off from my brothers, choosing vampires over them? (Jacob)

131. Wait up. My legs aren’t as long as yours. (Seth)

132. I didn’t follow you because I was after a promotion. (Seth)

133. You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up? (Seth)

134. Wouldn’t it be just peachy if I couldn’t take care of Seth for one freaking night? What if something happened to him on my watch? Leah would shred me into kibble. (Jacob)

135. This would be a lot easier if the communication wasn’t one way. Then again, I was kinda glad I wasn’t in his head. (Jacob)



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