I didn’t need the air. My lungs weren’t waiting for it. They reacted indifferently to the influx. I did not need the air, but I liked it.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.388

Oh. Of course. Edward wouldn’t feel cold to me. We were the same temperature now.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.389

Jasper and Emmett were in the front to protect the others, as I had assumed. What I hadn’t grasped immediately was that I was the danger.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.390

How many times had I stared at Edward and marveled over his beauty? How many hours – days, weeks – of my life had I spent dreaming about what I then deemed to be perfection? I thought I’d known his face better than my own. I’d thought this was the one sure physical thing in my whole world: the flawlessness of Edward’s face. I may as well have been blind. For the first time, with the dimming shadows and limiting weakness of humanity taken off my eyes, I saw his face. I gasped and then struggled with my vocabulary, unable to find the right words. I needed better words.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.390

His touch seemed to sweep beneath the surface of my skin, right through the bones of my face. The feeling was tingly, electric – it jolted through my bones, down my spine, and trembled in my stomach. Wait, I thought as the trembling blossomed into a warmth, a yearning. Wasn’t I supposed to lose this? Wasn’t giving up this feeling a part of the bargain?
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.392

Um… carefully, Bella. Ow.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.393

He smiled the kind of smile that would have stopped my heart if it were still beating.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.393

Don’t panic, love. You’re just a bit stronger than I am for the moment.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.393

I was stronger than Edward. I’d made him say ow.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.393

It was like he’d never kissed me – like this was our first kiss. And, in truth, he’d never kissed me this way before. It almost made me feel guilty. Surely I was in breach of the contract. I shouldn’t be allowed to have this, too.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.394

You’ve been holding out on me.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.395

Now it’s your turn to not break me.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.395

Let’s hunt, Bella.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.398

I was under the impression that you’d always wanted to see me hunt.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.398

I knew there was nothing left inside me, and I faintly remembered the bloody removal scene, but the physical proof was still hard to process. All I knew was loving my little nudger inside of me. Outside of me, she seemed like something I must have imagined. A fading dream – a dream that was half nightmare.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.399

You promised I could be there the first time! What if you two run past something reflective?
Alice Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.401

Edward gave me grief for not getting you to a mirror before the wedding. I’m not going to be chewed out again.
Alice Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.402

I’ve never seen a newborn do that – stop an emotion in its tracks that way. You were upset, but when you saw our concern, you reined it in, regained power over yourself. I was prepared to help, but you didn’t need it.
Jasper Hale, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.404

I stared at the beautiful woman with the terrifying eyes, looking for pieces of me. There was something there in the shape of her lips – if you looked past the dizzying beauty, it was true that her upper lip was slightly out of balance, a bit too full to match the lower. Finding this familiar little flaw made me feel a tiny bit better. Maybe the rest of me was in there, too.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.405

I was rather hoping that I’d be able to hear your mind, now that it is more similar to my own. And here I am, as frustrated as ever, wondering what could possibly be going on inside your head.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.406

I guess my brain will never work right. At least I’m pretty.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.406

Bella, you have never been merely pretty.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 20, p.406