Extended Reading

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse quotes

  • Rosalie Hale: [hearing Bella coming towards her] Go blather to someone else about the joys of becoming a newborn.

    Bella Swan: [stops; eventually continues towards Rosalie] Ok. Rosalie, I don't understand what I did to make you hate me so much.

    Rosalie Hale: [softly] Hate...

    [smiles sadly, shakes her head; looks at Bella]

    Rosalie Hale: I don't hate you.

    [pause; looking back outside]

    Rosalie Hale: I don't particularly *like* you but...

    [looking down]

    Rosalie Hale: Bella, I envy you.

    Bella Swan: [surprised; barely a whisper] What?

    [beat]

    Bella Swan: That's ridiculous.

    Rosalie Hale: No it's not. You have a choice. I didn't. None of us did. But you do and you're choosing wrong! I don't care how miserable your human life is.

    Bella Swan: My life is not miserable.

    [comes up to her side, leaning on the railing, looking out]

    Bella Swan: I mean, it's not perfect; but nobody's life is perfect.

    Rosalie Hale: Mine was

    [beat]

    Rosalie Hale: absolutely perfect.

  • Edward Cullen: After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem Solved.