Oh well, I thought to myself. He was a vampire, after all. Maybe we were going to Atlantis.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.77
Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.78
I’m nothing if not thorough.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.78
He didn’t ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.79
I’m sure you’d like a human minute or two… It was a long journey.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.81
Don’t take too long, Mrs. Cullen.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.81
Did my skin burst into flames? I had to look down to check. Nope, nothing was burning. At least, not visibly.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.81
I didn’t know how or when, but someday, Alice was going to pay for this.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.81
I started to feel a little dizzy, apparently a full-scale panic attack on the way. I sat down on the cool tile floor in my big towel and put my head between my knees. I prayed he wouldn’t decide to come look for me before I could pull myself together. I could imagine what he would think if he saw me going to pieces this way. It wouldn’t be hard for him to convince himself that we were making a mistake.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.83
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 Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.83
How did people do this – swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had – with less than the absolute commitment that Edward had given me? If it weren’t Edward out there, if I didn’t know in every cell of my body that he loved me as much as I loved him – unconditionally and irrevocably and, to be honest, irrationally – I’d never be able to get up off this floor.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.83
I wouldn’t use the word beautiful. Not with you standing here in comparison.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.85
Don’t be afraid. We belong together.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.85
His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him, summer and winter. It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.85
I would have been happy to lie here forever, to never disturb this moment, but my body had other ideas. I laughed at my impatient stomach. It seemed sort of prosaic to be hungry after all that had passed last night. Like being brought back down to earth from some great height.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.86
My first instinct, the product of a lifetime of insecurities, was to wonder what I had done wrong.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.87
Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.87
Stop acting like I’m not a monster for having agreed to this.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.88
Why am I covered in feathers?
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.89
You… bit a pillow? Why?
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.89
Do not say the word fine. If you value my sanity, do not say that you are fine.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.90
Ugh! Why can’t you just read my mind already? It’s so inconvenient to be a mental mute!
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.90
I was perfectly happy. Totally and completely blissed out. Now – well, I’m sort of pissed actually.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.91
That. That right there is why I’m angry. You are killing my buzz, Edward.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.91
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 Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.92
With our rarely changing temperaments, strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part – you had already altered me so completely.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.93
I can’t ignore the evidence, Bella. Or your history of trying to let me off the hook when I make mistakes.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.94
You listen to me, Edward Cullen. I am not pretending anything for your sake, okay? I didn’t even know there was a reason to make you feel better until you started being all miserable. I’ve never been so happy in all my life – I wasn’t this happy when you decided that you loved me more than you wanted to kill me, or the first morning I woke up and you were there waiting for me… Not when I heard your voice in the ballet studio, or when you said ‘I do’ and I realized that, somehow, I get to keep you forever. Those are the happiest memories I have, and this is better than any of it. So just deal with it.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.94
We’re just lucky it was the pillows and not you.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.95
Do I look that hideous?
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.95
How did you keep from laughing at this? I look ridiculous.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.96
I will not make love with you until you’ve been changed. I will never hurt you again.
Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.98
