Midnight Sun Quotes

“Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“For just a second, I saw Persephone, pomegranate in hand. Dooming herself to the underworld. Is that who I was? Hades himself, coveting springtime, stealing it, condemning it to endless night.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Perhaps romance always seemed a slightly foolish thing to everyone until one actually fell into it.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I knew her well enough to see that the sight of so many books in one room was something of a dream to her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I buried my face in the hollow of her neck and breathed in her searing essence, wishing again, as I had in the beginning, that I could dream with her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“There was a bit of Jane Eyre in her, a portion of Scout Finch and Jo March, a measure of Elinor Dashwood, and Lucy Pevensie.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Edward,” she mumbled softly.
She was dreaming of me.
Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt as though mine was about to.
“Stay,” she sighed. “Don’t go. Please… don’t go.” She was dreaming of me, and it wasn’t even a nightmare. She wanted me to stay with her, there in her dream.
I struggled to find words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them.
When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been.
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“She had changed me more than I’d known it was possible for me to change and still remain myself.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Though I hated her, I was absolutely aware that my hatred was unjust. I knew that what I really hated was myself. And I would hate us both so much more when she was dead.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Maybe if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“For the first time in a hundred years, I was grateful to be what I was. Every aspect of being a vampire - all but the danger to her - was suddenly acceptable to me, because it was what had let me live long enough to find Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Did she hear how my voice wrapped around her name like a caress?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…,” I whispered.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“She could stay forever and it would not be long enough.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I had no doubts. I now knew the meaning of the phrase. The greatest joy
of my life was this fragile, brave, warm, insightful girl sleeping so
peacefully nearby. Bella. The very greatest joy that life had to offer me, and
the greatest pain when she was lost.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Every word we spoke here—each one of them was another pomegranate seed.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Suddenly, as she ate, a strange comparison entered my head. For just a second I saw Persephone, pomegranate in hand. Dooming herself to the underworld.
Is that who I was? Hades himself, coveting springtime, stealing it, condeming it to endless night. I tried unsuccessfully to shake the impression.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Her heart fluttered; my dead heart felt warmer.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“There was always a choice.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“As I met her penetrating gaze, read the surprise and the sympathy there, I abruptly yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to dream. Maybe if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Rosalie was right about one thing, though. When Bella said the word forever, it didn't mean the same thing to her as it meant to me. For her, it meant merely a very long time. It meant she couldn't see the end yet. How could anyone who had lived only seventeen years comprehend what fifty years meant, let alone eternity? She was human, not a frozen immortal. Within just a few years, she would reinvent herself many times over. Her priorities would shift as her world grew wider. The things she wanted now wouldn't be the things she wanted then.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“The wast majority of my thoughts revolved around her as though she was the center of my mind's gravity.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“It’s twilight,” I said. The time when vampires came out to play—when we never had to fear that a shifting cloud might cause us trouble—when we could enjoy the last remnants of light in the sky without worrying that we would be exposed.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“It’s going to be fine, Edward. This is going to work out for the best. You deserve happiness, my son. Fate owes you that.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I was a predator. She was my prey.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“When I stared up at the jeweled sky, it was as if there were an
obstruction between my eyes and its beauty. The obstruction was a face,
just an unremarkable human face, but I couldn’t quite seem to banish it
from my mind.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Let me have my five years, Rosalie," I whispered. "I know it can't last. Let me be happy while happiness is possible. Be part of that happiness. Be my sister, and if you can't love my choice the way I love yours, can you at least pretend to tolerate her?" (421).”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“She saw Jasper and knew that he was looking for her before he knew it himself." Their union had been a magical thing. Whenever Jasper thought of it, the entire household relaxed into dreamy contentment, so powerful were his communal emotions.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“She walked almost reverently into the golden light. It gilded her hair and made her fair skin glow. Her fingers trailed over the taller flowers, and I was reminded again of Persephone. Springtime personified.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun