EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: She is a graduate of Forks High School.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Before Bella Swan moved to Forks, Lauren Mallory was the most sought-after girl in school. She had dated Tyler Crowley and Mike Newton in her sophomore year. When Bella started attending Forks High, it was difficult for Lauren. Despite the fact that Lauren was in fact much prettier than Bella, many of the guys at school were intrigued by a new face.
Sometime during the summer following her junior year, Lauren was approached by an alleged modeling agent in a mall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He told her she was a natural model, and Lauren agreed with him. The agent told her that if she cut her long hair into a shorter, edgier look and had some high-quality headshots taken, her future would be assured.
Lauren followed his instructions — spending three hundred dollars on a haircut and fifteen grand on pictures taken by the agent‘s partner — and never heard from the agent again.
ERIC YORKIE
NAME: Eric Yorkie
DATE OF BIRTH: 1988
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Forks, Washington
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Brown
HEIGHT: 6‘1‖
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Eric is tall and gangly, with a poor complexion and greasy hair.
EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: He is a graduate of Forks High School.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Somewhat awkward, Eric was generally acknowledged as the class geek. He wanted to be part of Mike‘s popular crowd, so he tended to hang around them at lunch. After a while, he was considered one of the group. During his senior year, he and Katie Marshall started dating.
Eric graduated as the valedictorian of Forks High School and planned to attend college the following fall.
―THE SCHOOL WAS, LIKE MOST OTHER THINGS, JUST OFF THE
HIGHWAY. IT WAS NOT OBVIOUS THAT IT WAS A SCHOOL; ONLY THE SIGN, WHICH DECLARED IT TO BE THE FORKS HIGH SCHOOL, MADE ME STOP.‖
— Bella (Twilight, Chapter 1)
Teachers at Forks High School
MR. BANNER Mr. Banner is the science teacher at Forks High School.
MR. BERTY Mr. Berty teaches English at Forks High School.
COACH CLAPP Coach Clapp is the gym teacher at Forks High School.
MRS. COPE Mrs. Cope is the red-haired secretary at Forks High School.
MR. GREENE Mr. Greene is the principal of Forks High School.
MR. JEFFERSON Mr. Jefferson is the government teacher at Forks High School.
MR. VARNER Mr. Varner teaches math at Forks High School.
Other Students at Forks High School
CONNER Conner is a friend of Mike Newton‘s.
LEE Lee was in the same class at Forks High School as Mike, Jessica, and the others. He dated Samantha.
AUSTIN MARKS Austin Marks is Ben Cheney‘s best friend.
KATIE MARSHALL Katie Marshall was Eric Yorkie‘s girlfriend during his senior year. She has red hair and lives around the corner from Charlie Swan.
SAMANTHA Samantha was in the same class at Forks High School as Mike, Jessica, and the others. She dated Lee and was friends with Lauren Mallory.
Other Residents of Forks
BETH CROWLEY Beth Crowley is Tyler Crowley‘s mother. She is friends with Mike Newton‘s mother.
DR. GERANDY Dr. Gerandy is Carlisle Cullen‘s friend and colleague.
KAREN NEWTON Karen Newton is the mother of Mike Newton. Her coiffed blond hair, perfect manicure and pedicure, and stiletto-heeled shoes make her seem out of place as the co-owner of Newton‘s Olympic Outfitters.
MR. NEWTON Mr. Newton is Mike Newton‘s father and the co-owner of Newton‘s Olympic Outfitters.
MRS. STANLEY Mrs. Stanley is Jessica Stanley‘s mother and the town gossip. She works at the local bank. She and her family live west of Forks, in a house that is very large for the area. The view from her attic extends all the way to the coast.
MRS. WEBER Mrs. Weber is Angela Weber‘s mother, and the mother of twin boys Joshua and Isaac Weber. She comes from a very large family.
MR. WEBER Mr. Weber is the father of Angela Weber and twin boys Joshua and Isaac Weber. He is a Lutheran minister.
―More fiercely than I would have dreamed I was capable of, I wished for the green, protective forests of Forks… of home.‖
— Bella (Twilight, Chapter 22)
Residents of Seattle
―J.‘S USUAL CLIENTS… JUST GO STRAIGHT UP TO HIS FANCY OFFICE IN
THE SKYSCRAPER.‖
— Max, to Bella (Breaking Dawn, Chapter 33)
J. JENKS
NAME: J. Jenks (also known as Jason Jenks and Jason Scott) DATE OF BIRTH: 1950s
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Seattle, Washington
HAIR COLOR: Medium brown, balding
EYE COLOR: Brown
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: J. is short and balding, and has a paunch. He wears expensive clothing.
EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: He is an attorney, but he also provides illegal services for clients willing to pay his prices.
He is known in certain circles as being one of the best document forgers available.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
J. Jenks is a full-time lawyer and a part-time criminal. He is known in certain circles as being one of the best document forgers available. He learned the art from his mentor and former partner, who originally worked with the Cullens. J. prefers not to use an office for most of his illegal clients; instead, he uses a run-down place in the ghetto as a contact point. He also conducts legitimate business as Jason Jenks, an attorney with a fancy office in a skyscraper in Seattle, and as Jason Scott, an attorney with a modest practice in the suburbs.
J. started working for Jasper Hale and the rest of the Cullen family in the late 1980s. He doesn‘t know that the Cullens are vampires, but he does know he is dealing with the supernatural, thanks to the fact that Jasper never ages. Because he is paid well — and because Jasper has manipulated his emotions to make sure he fears the Cullens — J. always gives Jasper top priority and does not talk about the Cullens to others.
FAMOUS QUOTE
“If you could just assure me that you are not planning to kidnap the little girl from her father, I would sleep better tonight.” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 35
MAX
NAME: Max
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Seattle, Washington
HAIR COLOR: Black
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Max has crinkly black hair; dark, smooth skin; and straight white teeth. He wears fine clothing underneath a rumpled duster.
EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: He works for J. Jenks, at his downtown office.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Max assists J. Jenks in his underhanded business dealings. His primary duty is to sit on the porch of an old, run-down building and relay messages back to his boss.
FAMOUS QUOTE
“Well, she looks like a freaking supermodel, that‟s what she looks like. Rocking body, pale as a sheet, dark brown hair almost to her waist, needs a good night‟s sleep — any of this sounding familiar?” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 33
Residents of Brazil
GUSTAVO Gustavo is a Brazilian who was also hired as a caretaker of Isle Esme. He is embarrassed by Kaure‘s superstitions and wants her to be more modern.
She believes vampires are real, and that she is working for some of them.
KAURE Kaure, a Ticuna native, is a resident of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and one of the caretakers of Isle Esme. She was raised to believe in the traditions of her people — traditions that include vampires and the reality of vampire-human procreation. She believes vampires are real, and that she is working for some of them.
The history of the Saga‘s vampires and werewolves encompasses hundreds of thousands of years. This timeline notes key events that occurred over the eras, from the creation of the first Quileute werewolf and the formation of the Volturi all the way through the birth of Renesmee Cullen and the near war that followed.
1400–1200 B.C. Aro, Caius, and Marcus are born in Greece during the Mycenaean civilization. They form the Volturi coven with their wives. 1000 B.C. Aro kills his sister, Didyme. Dacia (proto-Romania) is the power center of the vampire world, ruled by the coven that would later be called the Romanian coven. • The Volturi found the city of Volterra in pre-Roman Etruscan Italy. 400–500 A.D. The Volturi overthrow the Romanian coven. 500 The Volturi begin introducing vampire law. • Immortal children are executed on a case-by-case basis.
750 Immortal children outlawed. 800 Jane and Alec changed to vampires by the Volturi. 1000
Practice of creating immortal children mostly eradicated. Kaheleha and his spirit warriors use their magic to vanquish intruders. 1230–1250 Hohs and Makahs make treaties with Quileutes. •
Taha Aki becomes first Quileute shape-shifter. 1265 The first of Taha Aki‘s sons inherits ability to shape-shift. 1400–1410 Three Quileute shape-shifters killed by vampire. Quileute shape-shifters kill their first vampire. • The Cold Woman comes to the Quileute village to avenge her mate; the third wife dies to save the tribe. 1640s Carlisle Cullen born in London, England. 1663
Carlisle changed to a vampire. EARLY 1700s Carlisle migrates to the continent and meets the Volturi. 1720s Carlisle leaves the Volturi, goes to America. 1750s Joham begins experimenting with vampire hybrids. 1820s First army of newborns created by Benito; the Southern Wars begin. 1830s The death toll from the Southern Wars reaches epidemic proportions; the Volturi wipe out all newborn armies in the southern parts of North America. 1844 Jasper Whitlock born in Texas. 1861 Jasper joins the Confederate Army. 1863 Jasper changed to a vampire by Maria.
1895 Esme Anne Platt born in Columbus, Ohio. 1901 June 20 Edward Anthony Masen born in Chicago, Illinois. Mary Alice Brandon born in Biloxi, Mississippi. 1905 Carlisle moves to Columbus, Ohio, where he practices medicine as a country doctor. 1911 Carlisle meets Esme Platt. 1912 Carlisle leaves Columbus. 1915 Rosalie Lillian Hale born in Rochester, New York. •
Emmett McCarty born in Tennessee. 1917 Esme marries Charles Evenson. Carlisle moves to Chicago, Illinois, where he practices medicine in a hospital. 1918 SEPTEMBER • Edward changed to a vampire by Carlisle. 1920 Alice institutionalized in a mental asylum by her father and stepmother. • Alice changed to a vampire by a worker at the mental asylum. • Esme becomes pregnant; leaves her husband and moves to Ashland, Wisconsin. 1921 Carlisle and Edward move to Ashland, Wisconsin, and establish themselves as uncle and nephew. Carlisle begins working in a small hospital. • Esme jumps off a cliff after losing her son to disease. • Carlisle changes Esme to a vampire. • Carlisle and Esme marry. The Cullen family leaves Ashland. Edward now poses as Esme‘s younger brother. 1927 Edward leaves Carlisle to try a traditional vampire/vigilante life. 1931 Edward returns to the Cullens and they reestablish their family in Rochester, New York. • Rosalie changed to a vampire by Carlisle. 1935 Emmett changed to a vampire by Carlisle. • Rosalie and Emmett have their first wedding. 1936 The Cullens move to Hoquiam, Washington, and make a treaty with the Quileutes. 1938 Jasper leaves Maria. 1948
Alice finds Jasper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; they become companions. 1950 Alice and Jasper join the Cullens. Alice and Jasper get married. 1987 September 13 Isabella ―Bella‖
Marie Swan born in Forks, Washington. December Renée Swan and Bella move to Riverside, California. 1990 January 14 Jacob Black born. 1993 Renée and Bella move to Phoenix, Arizona. 1996–2001 Bella visits Charlie Swan in Forks for one month in the summer. 2003
August The Cullens move to Forks. 2005 JANUARY January 17 Bella moves back to Forks.
January 18 Bella‘s first day of school; Bella meets Edward; Edward leaves Forks for Alaska. •
Edward comes back to school. Edward stops Tyler Crowley‘s van from crushing Bella.
MARCH Mike asks Bella to the spring dance; Edward spends the night in Bella‘s room for the first time. • Bella sits with Edward at lunch; Bella nearly passes out in Biology. • Edward ditches school to hunt with Emmett. • Bella goes to First Beach and becomes reacquainted with Jacob Black; Jacob tells Bella the history of the cold ones. • Bella is nearly attacked in Port Angeles; Edward rescues her; Edward confirms that he is a vampire. • Edward takes Bella to the meadow.
Edward introduces Bella to his family; the Cullens play baseball; James starts his hunt for Bella. • Alice, Jasper, and Bella arrive in Phoenix, Arizona. • James lures Bella to the ballet studio; the Cullens kill James before he can kill Bella. • Bella awakens in the hospital with many injuries. MAY • Edward and Bella attend the Forks High School prom. SEPTEMBER •
September 13 Bella‘s eighteenth birthday; Jasper nearly attacks her when she gets a paper cut.
Edward breaks up with Bella; the Cullens disappear. OCTOBER — DECEMBER Bella exists in a zombielike state. 2006 JANUARY• Bella and Jessica see a movie in Port Angeles. • Bella takes broken motorcycles to Jacob. • Bella visits the empty Cullen house. • Bella and Jacob see Sam Uley‘s gang cliff diving; they ride their repaired motorcycles. • Bella and Jacob begin their search for the meadow. FEBRUARY• Bella, Jacob, and Mike Newton go to the movies; Jacob transforms into a werewolf for the first time. • Jacob tells Bella he is sick and she should stay away. MARCH• Bella finds the meadow; she sees Laurent and five huge wolves. • Bella finds Jacob with Sam‘s pack and confronts him; Jacob sneaks into her room at night and reminds her about the ―scary stories.‖ • Bella realizes Jacob is a werewolf; she sees Paul and Jacob phase. •
Bella dives off the cliff, Harry dies, and Alice returns to Forks. Edward calls Bella‘s house and Jacob answers the phone; Alice and Bella race to Italy to stop Edward from killing himself. •
Bella, Edward, and Alice meet the Volturi. Alice shows Aro that Bella will become a vampire.
Bella, Edward, and Alice return to Forks. • Bella asks the Cullens to vote on her mortality.
APRIL Jacob reminds Edward about the treaty. MAY • Edward and Bella visit Renée in Florida. • The Cullens and the Quileutes clash while hunting Victoria. • Jacob confronts Edward in front of Forks High School. • Bella sneaks out to visit Jacob. • Bella is kidnapped by Alice; Rosalie tells her story to Bella. JUNE• Edward realizes another vampire has been in Bella‘s bedroom. • Bella goes to La Push and hears the tribe‘s history. • Jacob kisses Bella. •June 11
Bella graduates; Alice throws her graduation party. The Cullens and Quileutes train to fight the newborn army. • June 13 Bella and Edward become officially engaged. • Jacob carries Bella to the campsite, where Edward meets them. • Bella asks Jacob to kiss her before the battle with the newborns; Edward kills Victoria; Jacob is wounded; the Volturi visit. • Jacob receives an invitation to Bella‘s wedding and runs away as a wolf. AUGUST •August 13 Edward and Bella are married. •AugusT 30 Bella discovers she is pregnant and returns to Forks with Edward. SEPTEMBER• Jacob breaks away from Sam‘s pack to protect Bella. •September11 Renesmee Cullen born; Bella begins transformation into a vampire; Jacob imprints on Renesmee. •September 13 Bella completes transformation into a vampire. • Jacob phases in front of Charlie. DECEMBER• Irina sees Renesmee. • Irina decides to go to the Volturi; Alice sees a vision of the Volturi‘s attack; Alice and Jasper leave the Cullens. • The Denali coven and Peter and Charlotte agree to support the Cullens. • The Amazons, Irish, Egyptians, nomads, and Romanians arrive. • Bella visits J. Jenks. •December 25 Bella, Edward, and Renesmee spend Christmas with Charlie, Jacob, and the pack. •December 31 The Volturi arrive; Caius kills Irina; Bella discovers the true power of her shield; Alice arrives with Nahuel; the Volturi retreat; Edward hears Bella‘s thoughts for the first time.
The following pages note key plot points that occur in Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, from Bella‘s move to Forks to the finale of Breaking Dawn.
Twilight
CHAPTER 1
• Bella moves to Forks
Bella leaves her mother and Phoenix; Charlie has bought an old pickup for her
• Bella attends her first day of school at Forks High School Bella meets Eric, Jessica, Mike, and Angela; she sees the Cullens for the first time
• Bella has Biology class with Edward
Bella sits next to Edward; Edward glares at Bella like he hates her; after school, Bella sees Edward in the office trying to switch out of their Biology class
CHAPTER 2
• Edward misses school the rest of the week
• Edward returns to school
Edward touches Bella‘s hand by accident during their Biology lab project; Bella notices that Edward‘s eyes are golden instead of black
CHAPTER 3
• There is ice on the roads and in the school parking lot Bella is touched to find that Charlie has put chains on her truck‘s tires; Tyler‘s van skids into Bella; Edward pushes Bella out of the way and holds up the van; Edward pleads with Bella to say he was standing beside her before the accident
• Bella, Tyler, and Edward go to the hospital to be examined Bella meets Dr. Carlisle Cullen for the first time; Bella wants an explanation from Edward for the lie; Edward refuses
CHAPTER 4
• Bella dreams of Edward for the first time
• Edward doesn‘t speak to Bella for six weeks
• The Girls‘ Choice Spring Dance is coming up soon
Mike asks Bella to the dance, but Bella refuses, saying she is going to Seattle that day; Edward speaks to Bella again, telling her it is better if they aren‘t friends; Edward laughs as Eric and Tyler ask Bella to the dance; the next morning Edward offers to drive Bella to Seattle; Edward reminds Bella it would be more prudent for her not to be his friend
CHAPTER 5
• Edward invites Bella to sit with him at lunch
Edward and Bella decide to be ―friends‖; Bella tells Edward her theory about him being a superhero; Edward hints that he might be ―the bad guy‖
• Bella has to do blood typing in Biology class
In class, Bella gets queasy at the sight of blood; Mike escorts her to the nurse‘s office; Edward rushes to her and takes over from Mike, carrying her to the nurse‘s office; Bella explains that the smell of blood makes her sick; Edward drives Bella home, and they talk about their families; Bella invites Edward to the upcoming party at La Push
CHAPTER 6
• Bella is lonely when Edward misses the next day of school
• Bella goes to the party at First Beach in La Push
The group is joined by some of the Quileute boys; Bella meets Jacob Black; she remembers his older sisters; one of the Quileute boys tells Bella the Cullens don‘t come to La Push
• Bella flirts with Jacob to get him to tell her about the Cullens Jacob tells her the Quileute legends about wolves and vampires; Jacob says the Cullens are supposedly vampires
CHAPTER 7
• Bella does research about vampires; the facts don‘t add up
• Bella decides to go with Jessica and Angela to pick out their dresses in Port Angeles
CHAPTER 8
• Bella goes dress shopping in Port Angeles
Bella is distracted while the other girls try on dresses; she decides to go find a bookstore, telling them she will meet them later
• Bella walks in the wrong direction and is threatened by four drunk men She tries to remember self-defense moves
• Edward drives up just in time
Bella gets in his car and they speed away; Edward needs time to calm down; Bella remembers that she is supposed to meet Jessica and Angela; Edward drives to the right restaurant without asking which one
• The girls have already eaten so Edward takes Bella to dinner Edward doesn‘t notice the hostess or the waitress; Bella tells Edward he shouldn‘t
―dazzle‖ people, and he asks if he dazzles her; she tells him he does, frequently; Edward makes Bella eat while they talk ―hypothetically‖ about his ability to hear thoughts
CHAPTER 9
• On the drive home from Port Angeles, they are past all the evasiveness Bella tells Edward about her talk with Jacob Black and about the Quileute legends; Edward realizes that Bella knows the truth; Bella asks why Edward‘s family doesn‘t drink human blood; Edward tells her he doesn‘t want to be a monster; Edward promises to show her why he doesn‘t go out in the sunlight
• Bella knows that Edward is a vampire, that part of him thirsts for her blood, and that she is unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him
CHAPTER 10
• Edward offers Bella a ride to school
Edward points out that he‘s breaking the rules
• Edward listens as Jessica quizzes Bella about her relationship with him Edward is upset when he hears Bella say she likes him more than he likes her; at lunch Edward tells her she is wrong, that he‘d hurt himself if that meant keeping her safe
• Edward invites Bella to spend Saturday togther so she can see him in the sunlight
• Edward tells Bella about his hunting trip with Emmett
―ABOUT THREE THINGS I WAS ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE. FIRST, EDWARD
WAS A VAMPIRE. SECOND, THERE WAS PART OF HIM — AND I DIDN‘T KNOW
HOW POTENT THAT PART MIGHT BE — THAT THIRSTED FOR MY BLOOD. AND
THIRD, I WAS UNCONDITIONALLY AND IRREVOCABLY IN LOVE WITH HIM.‖
— Bella (Twilight, Chapter 9)
―I REACHED THE EDGE OF THE POOL OF LIGHT AND STEPPED
THROUGH THE LAST FRINGE OF FERNS INTO THE LOVELIEST PLACE I HAD
EVER SEEN. THE MEADOW WAS SMALL, PERFECTLY ROUND, AND FILLED
WITH WILDFLOWERS — VIOLET, YELLOW, AND SOFT WHITE.‖
— Bella (Twilight, Chapter 12)
CHAPTER 11
• Edward and Bella watch a movie in Biology class; Bella is hyperaware of Edward sitting next to her
Mike tells Bella he doesn‘t like the idea of her and Edward; Edward quizzes Bella about all her favorite things; Billy and Jacob Black see Edward with Bella
CHAPTER 12
• Bella is afraid Billy Black will tell Charlie about Edward
• Sitting with Edward at lunch, Bella sees Rosalie glaring at her Edward explains that it will be dangerous for his whole family if, after he spends time with her publicly, things end badly; Bella tells her friends she is not going to Seattle with Edward after all
• Edward meets Bella Saturday morning and she drives to the trailhead They hike five miles to the meadow
CHAPTER 13
• In the sunshine Edward‘s skin sparkles like diamonds Bella gazes at his beauty and touches his hand and forearm; Bella leans in to smell Edward‘s breath and he is caught off guard; Edward is gone in a moment; when he calms down he demonstrates his deadly speed and strength; Edward promises not to hurt Bella; he tries to explain why it is so difficult for him; Edward and Bella try slowly and carefully to be close to each other; Edward is surprised at his control
• Edward carries Bella back to the truck piggyback
• Edward carefully kisses Bella for the first time
CHAPTER 14
• On the drive home from the meadow, Edward tells Bella how Carlisle created the rest of his family; he explains that Alice and Jasper joined them later, and tells Bella about Alice‘s special talent
Edward admits that he watches Bella sleep; Edward stays that night with Bella, tells her about the talents of his other family members; Edward sings Bella to sleep
CHAPTER 15
• Edward takes Bella to meet his family; Bella is afraid they won‘t like her
• Edward kisses Bella a second time; she faints
• Bella meets Carlisle, Esme, Alice, and Jasper; Jasper spreads a feeling of ease in the room
• Edward plays the piano for Bella — her lullaby
• They tour the house; Edward explains some of Carlisle‘s history
CHAPTER 16
• Edward takes Bella into Carlisle‘s office and shows her his artwork, including a painting of Carlisle with Aro, Caius, and Marcus; Bella learns more of Carlisle‘s history
• Edward shows Bella his room and reveals more of his own history
CHAPTER 17
• Bella receives a visit and a warning from Billy Black
• Edward comes to meet Charlie and to take Bella on a date to play baseball
• The Cullens wait for the thunderstorm to start so they can play ball Three other vampires hear the game and come to play; the Cullens worry about Bella‘s safety
CHAPTER 18
• Laurent, James, and Victoria enter the ballfield
A breeze blows Bella‘s scent toward James; James wonders why the Cullens brought ―a snack‖
• Edward is frantic to get Bella away from James
Bella wants to protect Charlie; she comes up with a plan
CHAPTER 19
• Bella tells Charlie she is going back to Phoenix
• James hears her and follows her
• The Cullens split up: Alice and Jasper take Bella to Phoenix, while the others use Bella‘s scent to try to trap James and kill him
CHAPTER 20
• Alice, Jasper, and Bella stay in a motel near the Phoenix airport and wait Bella asks Alice how to become a vampire
• Alice has a vision of James in a room with mirrors
Bella recognizes Alice‘s drawing as her old ballet studio in Phoenix
• Carlisle calls and Bella talks to Edward; they have lost James Bella calls her mother and leaves a message that she needs to talk to her right away
―HE LED ME A FEW FEET THROUGH THE TALL, WET FERNS AND
DRAPING MOSS, AROUND A MASSIVE HEMLOCK TREE… ON THE EDGE OF AN
ENORMOUS OPEN FIELD IN THE LAP OF THE OLYMPIC PEAKS. IT WAS TWICE
THE SIZE OF ANY BASEBALL STADIUM.‖
— Bella, on going to the baseball field with Edward (Twilight, Chapter 17)
CHAPTER 21
• Alice has a vision of James in Bella‘s mother‘s house Alice calls Edward; he‘s coming to get Bella and take her to safety
• Bella gets a phone call from her mother; it turns out to be James James tells her to get away from the Cullens, to go to her mother‘s house and call him from there, or else her mother will die
CHAPTER 22
• Alice, Jasper, and Bella go to the airport to meet Edward
• Bella sneaks away and takes a cab to her mother‘s house Bella calls James; James tells her to meet him at the dance studio; Bella goes and sees that her mother is not there — it was only a video
• James tells her how he found her and explains that he is making a video of her death for Edward to see
James tells Bella that he once wanted Alice, but she was changed into a vampire too soon
• Bella tries to run but James smashes her into the mirrors, then snaps her leg Bella‘s head is bleeding; James loses control; Bella raises her hand to protect her face
CHAPTER 23
• Edward, Carlisle, and the others arrive at the studio
• Carlisle tends to Bella‘s wounds; he must stop the bleeding Bella screams that her hand is burning; Carlisle sees that James bit Bella‘s hand; Carlisle tells Edward he must hurry and suck out the venom; Edward is worried, but determined; Edward saves Bella
CHAPTER 24
• Bella wakes up in the hospital; Edward is there
Edward tells her that Emmett and Jasper took care of James; Alice has viewed the videotape
• Renée comes into the room; she wants Bella to move to Florida, but Bella refuses
• Edward had thought Bella might want to move away
Bella makes him promise he won‘t leave her; Edward says he‘ll stay as long as it makes her happy, as long as it‘s what‘s best for her
• Bella wants Edward to change her into a vampire
He refuses; they are at an impasse
EPILOGUE
• Edward surprises Bella by taking her to the prom
Bella doesn‘t want to go — she can‘t dance, plus she‘s wearing a cast on one leg; Edward lifts her onto his feet and they dance
• Jacob Black shows up
Billy Black has paid Jacob to give a message to Bella — they want her to break up with Edward
• Bella dances again with Edward
• She wants him to change her into a vampire right away; he wants her to stay human; she says being with him is enough for now
New Moon
CHAPTER 1
• Bella has a dream about her grandmother, who turns out to be Bella as an old woman; Edward enters the dream and wishes her ―Happy Birthday‖
• It‘s Bella‘s eighteenth birthday, and Alice has planned a party at the Cullens‘ house
• Bella and Edward watch a video of Romeo and Juliet Edward envies Romeo‘s ease of suicide; Edward tells Bella that he wouldn‘t live if something happened to her — he would go to Italy and provoke the Volturi; Bella takes a picture of Edward with her new camera
• Bella and Edward go to the birthday party
Bella gets a paper cut while opening a present; Jasper loses control at the smell of her blood; Edward pushes Bella out of danger, but into the crystal dishes; she cuts her arm; Bella looks up to see six suddenly ravenous vampires
CHAPTER 2
• Emmett and Rosalie drag Jasper outside
• Carlisle stitches up Bella‘s arm
Carlisle tells a little about his human life; he explains to Bella Edward‘s belief that vampires have no soul; he tells her the story of Edward‘s dying mother begging Carlisle to save Edward
• Edward is sullen and unhappy about Bella‘s injury and the Cullens‘ reactions to it
• Edward‘s kiss that night is urgent, reminiscent of a goodbye kiss
CHAPTER 3
• Edward is remote and silent; Bella is frightened
Alice and Jasper have gone away; Edward doesn‘t stay with her the next two nights
• Edward takes Bella to the edge of the woods to have a talk Edward says his family is leaving; he makes Bella promise not to do anything reckless or foolish, in return promising that after he leaves, it will be as if he never existed; Bella tries to follow him into the forest but gets lost and collapses; hours later Bella is found by Sam Uley
• October — November — December — January: Bella is like a zombie
CHAPTER 4
• Charlie threatens to send Bella to her mother in Florida Bella is lifeless; she screams in her sleep; Charlie thinks maybe Renée can help
• To placate Charlie, Bella asks Jessica to go to a movie with her
• Bella and Jessica walk down the street to get some food They pass a bar and see four men standing outside; Bella approaches them; they seem familiar; she feels a rush of adrenaline
• Bella hears Edward‘s voice, angry and concerned
Bella comes out of the lifeless haze, her senses awake
• That night Bella feels the nightly pain like a huge hole punched through her chest — it is hard to breathe
CHAPTER 5
• Bella is out of the numbness, but still has nightmares of nothingness; she holds herself tightly together
• Bella realizes that she doesn‘t need to keep her promise to Edward Bella wants to be reckless and stupid; she finds two free, broken-down motorcycles and takes them to Jacob Black to be repaired
CHAPTER 6
• Bella starts spending time with Jacob
Bella is surprised to hear herself laugh; Jacob carries happiness like an aura — an earthbound sun; Charlie is cautiously relieved to see her happy
• Bella makes a comment at lunch in the cafeteria; her friends are stunned
CHAPTER 7
• Bella drives to Edward‘s house to see if she will hear his voice again — nothing
• Jacob finishes the motorcycles
While driving the bikes out to a secluded riding place, Bella sees four boys on a cliff overlooking the water; one jumps off; Jacob explains that the boys are just cliff diving, that it‘s an adrenaline rush; Bella wants to give cliff diving a try; Jacob says the boys are Sam Uley‘s gang; he seems worried and frightened
• Bella realizes that Jacob likes her as more than just a friend
CHAPTER 8
• Jacob instructs Bella how to ride the motorcycle
• As soon as Bella lets go of the clutch, she hears Edward‘s angry voice The motorcycle falls on top of her, but she is eager to try again; the second attempt goes better; she hears Edward‘s voice several times; she crashes and cuts her head; she apologizes to Jacob for bleeding
• After several days of accidents and injuries, Bella and Jacob decide to try hiking — Bella wants to see Edward‘s meadow again
CHAPTER 9
• Bella‘s time is filled with school, work, and Jacob
• Mike invites Bella to a movie; she turns it into a group activity; she invites Jacob and Quil
Everyone backs out or comes down with the flu except Mike and Jacob; Mike gets sick during the movie
• Jacob tells Bella he will always be there for her
Bella doesn‘t want to lead Jacob on; she feels she has nothing left to give
• Jacob doesn‘t feel well; Bella gets sick
CHAPTER 10
• Jacob never calls to say he is better; Billy won‘t let Bella talk to Jacob Bella is told that Jacob has mono and can‘t have visitors for a month
• Bella doesn‘t handle ―alone‖ well; the hole in her chest is worse than ever Charlie is worried
• Bella decides to find Edward‘s meadow on her own
When she does, the memories there are too painful
• Laurent shows up in the meadow
Laurent knows the Cullens are gone; Bella hears Edward‘s warning voice; Laurent is thirsty; he says he‘ll kill Bella quickly, that it will be better than what Victoria has planned for her, that Victoria wants to torture Bella in revenge for Edward killing James
• Five huge wolves appear; Laurent runs away; the wolves follow
CHAPTER 11
• Bella is terrified to know that Victoria is coming for her; she is worried about Charlie
• Bella realizes what has happened to Jacob — Sam has gotten to him Bella drives to La Push to see Jacob; she talks first to Quil, who is worried he will be next
• Jacob is angry; he says his problem is all the bloodsuckers‘ fault; he is not good enough to be Bella‘s friend anymore
• Bella is alone again
CHAPTER 12
• That night Bella hears a sound outside her window; she is sure Victoria has come to kill her, but it is Jacob
Jacob has come to apologize for breaking his promise; Bella is tired and upset; Jacob cannot tell her his secret but hopes she can guess; he tells her she needs to remember the Quileute legends he talked about
• In a dream Bella sees Jacob turn into a werewolf
Bella realizes that her only human friend isn‘t human after all
• Charlie goes out with a group of men to kill the wolves
―I KNEW WE WERE BOTH IN MORTAL DANGER. STILL, IN THAT
INSTANT, I FELT WELL. WHOLE. I COULD FEEL MY HEART RACING IN MY
CHEST, THE BLOOD PULSING HOT AND FAST THROUGH MY VEINS AGAIN. MY
LUNGS FILLED DEEP WITH THE SWEET SCENT THAT CAME OFF HIS SKIN. IT
WAS LIKE THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ANY HOLE IN MY CHEST. I WAS
PERFECT — NOT HEALED, BUT AS IF THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A WOUND IN
THE FIRST PLACE.‖
— Bella (New Moon, Chapter 20)
CHAPTER 13
• Bella goes to warn Jacob and to ask if he can try not to be a werewolf
• Jacob is relieved that Bella doesn‘t hate him
Jacob explains that the wolves protect people from vampires; they killed Laurent, and they‘re trying to catch Victoria, but they don‘t know what she is after; Bella tells Jacob that Victoria is after her
• Jacob calls a meeting with the wolves; Bella learns that wolves hear one another‘s thoughts
Bella says Edward can also read minds
―I WAS PROUD OF MYSELF AS I PLUNGED DEEPER INTO THE FREEZING
BLACK WATER. I HADN‘T HAD ONE MOMENT OF TERROR — JUST PURE
ADRENALINE.‖
— Bella (New Moon, Chapter 15)
CHAPTER 14
• Bella meets the wolf pack
Paul loses control; Jacob phases on the fly; they fight; Jared and Embry take a shaken Bella to Emily‘s house
• Jacob, Paul, and Sam return; they make plans to protect Bella and Charlie, and to kill Victoria
CHAPTER 15
• Bella spends most of spring break in La Push, while the wolves patrol the area Jacob tells Bella the good things about being a wolf: warmth, fast healing, speed; Bella tells Jacob about her scar, about how Edward saved her from James, and about Alice‘s and Jasper‘s talents
• It hurts Bella to talk about the Cullens
Jacob promises to take Bella cliff diving for some fun but ends up having to follow a new trail left by Victoria
• Bella is lonely and frustrated; she decides to cliff jump alone She hears Edward‘s voice, then jumps; the fall is exhilarating — the water is the danger; Bella is tossed around beneath the surface; Edward‘s voice commands her to keep swimming, keep fighting; Bella senses she is going to die and is happy to have Edward‘s voice with her at the end; Bella‘s last thought is Goodbye, I love you.
CHAPTER 16
• Jacob pulls Bella from the water and resuscitates her Sam is there, but Jacob tells him to get back to the hospital; Jacob tells Bella that Harry Clearwater has had a heart attack
• Jacob takes Bella to his house; they both rest
Bella remembers Romeo and Juliet: If Romeo left Juliet, could she love Paris? Wouldn‘t Romeo want her to be happy?
• Billy Black comes home; Harry has died
Jacob takes Bella home, embraces her; Bella wonders if she can love Jacob enough, and make him happy; she knows if she kisses him, the decision will be made
• Jacob smells a vampire and rushes to get Bella away
Bella sees Carlisle‘s car and demands to go back; Jacob feels betrayed
CHAPTER 17
• Bella goes into her house, sees Alice and runs into her arms Alice is confused — she saw Bella throw herself off a cliff; Bella assures Alice she was not trying to kill herself, just having fun cliff diving; Bella explains that Jacob Black saved her; Alice did not see Jacob in her vision
• Bella tells Alice that Jacob is a werewolf and that Victoria is trying to kill her
• Bella makes Alice stay with her
Bella overhears Charlie telling Alice how bad it was for Bella when Edward left
• Alice tells Bella she has found out her real name; she had a sister, and she has a niece
• Harry Clearwater‘s funeral is the next day
CHAPTER 18
• Jacob comes over before the funeral to see how long Alice is staying; he can‘t be around vampires
• Jacob is getting ready to kiss Bella when the phone rings Jacob answers the phone and says Charlie is not there, he‘s at the funeral
• Alice rushes in to say it was Edward on the phone — Rosalie has told Edward about Bella jumping off the cliff
Edward thinks the funeral is for Bella and is going to the Volturi
• Alice and Bella hurriedly leave for the airport and Italy Jacob begs Bella to stay with him
CHAPTER 19
• On the plane, Alice tells Bella it is too dangerous for any of the family to come with them — she can‘t lose Jasper
Alice tells Bella Edward needs to see her to believe she is alive; she explains about the Volturi, their guard, their law enforcement, and their eating arrangements
• Alice closes her eyes and follows Edward‘s actions in her mind
• In Italy, Alice steals a Porsche and she and Bella race to Volterra It is St. Marcus Day; Edward plans to enter the main plaza when the sun is at its brightest, at noon
CHAPTER 20
• The roads around Volterra are crowded
Alice drops off Bella and tells her which direction to run; there are people everywhere; Bella is afraid she‘ll be too late
• The clock is tolling and Bella sees Edward at the edge of the light She cries his name but he is not listening — his eyes are closed, his face peaceful; Bella slams into him; Edward believes that he‘s dead
• Bella finally makes Edward see that they are not dead, but Felix and Demetri are already there; there is a confrontation; Alice joins them Jane arrives and Edward‘s defensive stance relaxes in defeat; they follow Jane through a long, cold alley to meet the Volturi; Edward holds Bella, caresses her face, kisses her hair
CHAPTER 21
• Jane finally leads them into what seems an unremarkable office; they pass through long halls with many doors, into a round, cavernous room filled with several vampires
• Aro cheerfully talks to them about their talents; he wonders how Edward can stand so close to Bella
• Aro knows that Bella is the one exception to Edward‘s gift; he wonders if she is also an exception to his own
Bella gives him her hand — nothing; Aro asks Jane to see if Bella is immune to her talent as well; Edward launches himself toward Jane but ends up on the floor writhing in pain; Aro redirects Jane toward Bella — again, nothing
• Aro asks Edward, Alice, and Bella to join his guard; they all say no Aro notes that Bella knows their secrets; she must become a vampire or die; Alice gives her hand to Aro and shows him a vision of Bella as a vampire; Aro is satisfied; they are free to go
• A group of tourists is led into the room; their screams of terror begin before Bella, Edward, and Alice can make it down the hall
CHAPTER 22
• Bella stays awake all that day and through both plane flights — she doesn‘t want to miss a second of her time with Edward
In Edward‘s arms, it is easy for Bella to fantasize that he still wants her
• All the Cullens meet them at the airport and thank Bella for saving Edward Rosalie apologizes for her part in the misunderstanding
• At Bella‘s home, a worried Charlie is furious with Edward
CHAPTER 23
• After a long sleep, Bella wakes to find Edward with her; she‘s convinced she‘s still asleep
• Edward tells Bella that Charlie has forbidden him to ever walk through his door again
• Edward is in agony over the dangers he left Bella to face Edward tries to explain that he lied to Bella about not wanting her; he is astonished that she believed the lie after the thousands of times he told her he loved her; Bella answers that it never made sense for him to love her
• Edward tries to convince Bella that he loves her and will never leave her Bella reminds Edward that she will grow old and die unless he changes her into a vampire; Edward refuses
• Bella decides to put her mortality up for a vote by Edward‘s family
CHAPTER 24
• On the way to Edward‘s house, Bella says her worst fear is that Edward will leave her Edward tells her that her hold on him is permanent and unbreakable; Bella has an epiphany: Edward loves her
• The Cullens congregate in the dining room; Bella explains that her mortality involves all of them
Bella asks them if they want her to join their family; all but Rosalie and Edward say yes; Rosalie tells Bella that she wishes there had been someone to vote no for her; Alice says she can‘t change Bella, and Carlisle says he can do it; Edward bargains for more time — he suggests that they wait until after graduation; Edward says he will change Bella himself on one condition: if she marries him first
EPILOGUE
• Almost everything is back to normal
Bella is grounded; Jacob won‘t return her phone calls
• Edward drives Bella home from school to find her motorcycle in the driveway
• Jacob is waiting to talk to Edward in the woods
Jacob had hoped the motorcycle would get Bella grounded, and away from Edward; Edward thanks Jacob for keeping Bella alive; Jacob reminds Edward the treaty forbids a vampire from biting a human
• Bella and Jacob part in sadness; Bella vows to see him smile again
Eclipse
CHAPTER 1
• Jacob sends Bella a note saying that he misses her, but that doesn‘t change anything Charlie tells Bella she is not grounded anymore if she will balance her time among her friends, especially Jacob
• Edward brings over a stack of college applications
• Bella and Edward see a newspaper article about a killing spree in Seattle Edward says the Cullens are monitoring the situation — they think it involves newborn vampires
• Bella wants to go see Jacob; Edward says it is too dangerous
CHAPTER 2
• Bella is no longer grounded so she offers to help Angela address her graduation announcements
• Alice has a vision; Edward is evasive about it
• Edward suggests that Bella should use the nearly expired airplane tickets Carlisle and Esme gave her for her birthday: They should fly to Florida this weekend Bella knows Charlie won‘t want her to go; Edward manipulates an argument between Charlie and Bella that makes Bella insist she will go to Florida; Charlie tries to give Bella the sex talk
CHAPTER 3
• Bella and Edward fly to visit Renée in Florida; Edward stays indoors Renée is insightful — she observes that Bella and Edward are more serious than she had supposed
• As soon as Bella gets home Jacob calls to see if she is going to be in school the next day Bella assumes he is checking to see if she is still human, if the treaty has been broken
• The next day Jacob comes to Bella‘s school to talk to Edward; they argue Bella figures out from their conversation that Victoria has been in Forks; Alice saw it in her vision; Edward took Bella away to keep her out of danger; there was some problem between the Quileutes and the Cullens
CHAPTER 4
• Bella is again frightened because of Victoria
The Cullens don‘t seem worried; Edward goes to hunt
• Bella goes to her Saturday job but isn‘t needed
She drives quickly to La Push, before Alice can see what she‘s doing
• Jacob is overjoyed to see her
The conversation turns to Bella‘s trip to Italy, the Volturi, Victoria‘s appearance, and the confrontation between the wolves and the Cullens
• Jacob wishes the vampires had never come back
Jacob wonders what Bella sees in Edward and tries to convince Bella that he would be better for her
CHAPTER 5
• Bella and Jacob continue their talk
Quil is happy to have become a werewolf; Jacob tells Bella what Sam went through when he changed, then imprinted on Emily and broke Leah‘s heart; he explains to Bella that werewolves don‘t age
• Bella promises to come back as soon as she can
CHAPTER 6
• Bella leaves Jacob and drives straight to Angela‘s house, not stopping even when she sees Edward‘s car behind her
Bella enjoys the afternoon with Angela
• Edward is waiting in her room; he is worried and angry Edward says Bella can never see Jacob again — it is too dangerous; Bella says she will see him
• Edward goes hunting again for two days; he bribes Alice to kidnap Bella for a slumber party; his room now has a bed, but Bella uses the couch
CHAPTER 7
• Rosalie comes to talk with Bella
Rosalie tells Bella about the awful events that led to her becoming a vampire; explains why she doesn‘t like Bella; says that Bella is making the wrong choice; tells Bella how she found Emmett
• The next day at school Jacob shows up and races away with Bella on his motorcycle
CHAPTER 8
• Bella and Jacob spend the afternoon on the beach talking Quil has imprinted on a two-year-old; Jacob explains that it‘s not a romantic thing — more like gravity; Bella wonders when Jacob will see someone and imprint; Jacob tells Bella that he‘ll only ever see her
• Jacob finds out that Bella intends to become a vampire very soon Jacob tells her she‘d be better off dead; Bella leaves, angry and hurt; she goes back to Alice‘s slumber party
• Edward returns in the night
He is not angry; he trusts her judgment, and she can see Jacob whenever she likes; Bella says she doesn‘t think she‘s welcome in La Push anymore
CHAPTER 9
• Bella goes home; Jacob has called to apologize, but she won‘t call him back
• Bella‘s bedroom seems unusually tidy, and some of her clothes are missing Edward comes and smells that a vampire has been there; Edward takes Bella to his house and has Emmett and Jasper check the vampire‘s trail; Alice has not seen the intruder; Bella is frightened again
• Bella calls Jacob and he apologizes profusely
• Edward talks to Jacob, tells him about the unknown vampire in Bella‘s room Edward and Jacob agree to work together to protect Bella
CHAPTER 10
• Jacob comes to Bella‘s house to get the scent of the vampire Bella wonders why Jacob wears so little clothing; he explains the problem of clothes and phasing
• Jacob accidentally cuts his hand with a knife; it heals in minutes
• Bella gets an acceptance letter from Dartmouth
• Bella mentions the missing clothes to Edward
Edward realizes the intruder took things with Bella‘s scent, as evidence of having found her
• There are more newspaper headlines about killings in Seattle
• Bella decides to go to La Push for a bonfire party
Edward drives her to the boundary line and hands her off to Jacob
CHAPTER 11
• Bella and Jacob go to the bonfire
The wolf pack is there, along with Billy Black, Old Quil, and Sue Clearwater
• A council meeting begins; Billy Black recites the Quileute history: Spirit warriors defend the Quileute land; Taha Aki, the last Spirit Chief, was betrayed by the evil Utlapa; Taha Aki and a great wolf joined; the cold ones came to Quileute land; the third wife sacrificed herself to save Taha Aki; the yellow-eyed cold ones came and made a treaty with the Quileutes
• Billy notes that the sons of the tribe now carry the burden of their ancestors
CHAPTER 12
• Graduation is near; Bella is not ready to change
Edward doesn‘t want Bella to become a vampire just because she is afraid; Edward reiterates why he wants Bella to stay human; Bella explains her problem with getting married
• There are more headlines about killings in Seattle; the Cullens wonder what they should do
CHAPTER 13
• Jasper relates the story of his human years and his vampire life
• Jasper recognizes the killings in Seattle as the result of a newborn army Jasper thinks that perhaps the Volturi are encouraging someone to destroy the Cullens‘ coven
• The Denali clan refuses to come help because the werewolves killed Laurent, who was involved with Irina
CHAPTER 14
• Alice makes preparations for Bella‘s graduation party
• The Cullens feel they must go to Seattle to take care of the problem Edward goes hunting to be strong; Bella is dropped off to spend the afternoon with Jacob
• Bella invites Jacob to her graduation party
Jacob tells Bella he loves her and wants her to choose him over Edward
CHAPTER 15
• Jacob kisses Bella; she punches him in the face and breaks her hand Charlie laughs when he hears that Jacob kissed Bella
• Edward is angry; he tells Jacob he must wait until Bella asks him to kiss her
• They both vow to keep fighting for her — and to not fight fair
CHAPTER 16
• On the night of graduation, Bella realizes her missing clothes and the newborn army are connected — the newborns are after her
• After the graduation ceremony, Bella tells Edward what she has figured out; Edward is stunned
• Bella goes to dinner with a proud Charlie
• Charlie drops Bella off at the Cullens‘ graduation party
CHAPTER 17
• Bella attends the Cullens‘ graduation party
Alice has transformed the house into a nightclub, and all the Forks High School seniors show up; Jacob, Embry, and Quil arrive; Jacob gives Bella a gift he made — a silver bracelet with a hand-carved wolf charm
• Alice has a vision — she tells the family and the pack that about twenty newborns are coming to Forks to kill Bella
The Cullens are outnumbered; the pack agrees to coordinate with the Cullens
CHAPTER 18
• The Cullens are confident now that the wolves are going to fight beside them Bella worries about Jacob, worries that everyone is in danger because of her
• Bella concludes that Victoria must be behind this
• Late at night, the vampires and werewolves meet to learn how to kill newborns The wolf pack has grown to ten members; the vampires and werewolves are wary of one another; Jasper explains and demonstrates the newborns‘ strengths and weaknesses
• Edward and Jacob discuss how to best protect Bella
Jacob will carry Bella to a secluded spot; his scent will mask hers
―IN THE DEAD SILENCE, ALL THE DETAILS SUDDENLY FELL INTO
PLACE FOR ME WITH A BURST OF INTUITION. SOMETHING EDWARD DIDN‘T
WANT ME TO KNOW. SOMETHING THAT JACOB WOULDN‘T HAVE KEPT FROM
ME… IT WAS NEVER GOING TO END, WAS IT?‖
— Bella (Eclipse, Chapter 3)
CHAPTER 19
• Edward notices the bracelet and charm Jacob gave Bella and asks if he can give her a charm, just a hand-me-down
• Edward muses about listening to the pack mind
Leah Clearwater is one of the wolves now — the only female; she makes everyone miserable; Edward is surprised to learn about imprinting
• Bella informs Edward that she must be with him during the fight Bella asks Edward to sit out the fight
• The wolves and vampires undergo another night of training and instruction Bella feels guilty about her selfishness
CHAPTER 20
• After ensuring that Charlie will be safe in La Push for the weekend, all the Cullens except Edward go hunting; Bella spends the night with Edward Edward gives Bella the hand-me-down charm, a heart-shaped crystal that was his mother‘s
• Bella worries about what she will be like as a vampire, fearing that she will only be interested in blood, that she won‘t want Edward the same way she does now Bella wants to be physically intimate now, but Edward resists — it‘s too dangerous; Edward swears they will try after she marries him; Bella thinks he is worried about his virtue; Edward admits he would like to leave one commandment unbroken
• Edward shows Bella the wedding ring — the ring Edward‘s father gave his mother Bella hesitantly tries the ring on; it fits perfectly; Edward is exultant
• Edward gets down on one knee and asks Bella to marry him
CHAPTER 21
• Alice sees that Bella is going to marry Edward
Alice is hurt because Bella wants to go to Las Vegas to get married
• Edward takes Bella to the clearing so the newborns will find her scent She falls and scrapes her palm; she smears blood on rocks and ferns
• Jacob comes to carry Bella to the campsite
Jacob thinks Bella should ask him to kiss her — he‘s sure he‘s a better kisser than Edward
• Bella tells Jacob that she has asked Edward not to be in the fight Bella is afraid that if anyone gets hurt, it will be her fault; she‘s worried about Jacob; Jacob asks Bella when she‘ll admit that she loves him, too
CHAPTER 22
• A frigid storm hits the campsite
Inside the tent, Bella is freezing, and Edward cannot warm her; Jacob comes into the tent to act as a space heater; he crawls into the sleeping bag with Bella; Edward is furious and jealous, but he sees the necessity of keeping Bella warm
• With the wind howling outside and Bella finally asleep, Edward and Jacob discuss Bella, and their competition for her love
Edward asks about the legend of the third wife that Bella mentioned in her sleep
• They forge a tenuous truce for the night
CHAPTER 23
• The storm ends, as does the truce between Edward and Jacob; Jacob leaves
• Bella and Edward compare their top ten nights; Jacob can hear them; he howls in agony and runs off
Bella feels terrible that she has hurt Jacob; Edward goes to bring Jacob back; Bella realizes she has also hurt Edward
• Bella talks privately with Jacob and apologizes for all the pain she has caused him Jacob apologizes, too, and says he can redeem himself by letting himself get taken out in the battle; Bella begs him to stay with her; she asks him to kiss her
• Jacob kisses Bella; the kiss is eager, nearly violent; Bella resists Jacob urges her to let herself go; Bella does feel love for Jacob; she kisses him back; she envisions what might have been
CHAPTER 24
• Jacob leaves cheerfully for the fight; Edward returns and hears from the pack mind what has happened
Bella is miserable
• The fight begins; Edward narrates as he hears the action through Seth‘s mind; everything sounds positive until Edward senses danger
• Victoria and Riley walk into the campsite
Seth attacks Riley while Edward takes on Victoria; Bella watches the battle, listens to the metallic snaps and tears, gasps and hisses; Riley flings Seth into the rock wall; Seth falls, limp
• Bella needs to create a diversion; she grips a sharp stone and slashes her arm Victoria loses her focus and Edward finishes her off; Seth dismantles Riley
CHAPTER 25
• Edward and Seth gather the pieces of Victoria and Riley and set them on fire
• Bella is frozen in place; Edward thinks she is afraid of him and approaches her carefully
• The main battle is over; everyone is fine
Suddenly Seth howls and Edward gasps; Jacob has been hurt while trying to protect Leah; Bella faints
• Back in the clearing, Bella revives; Carlisle assures her Jacob is already healing There is another bonfire here; one young vampire with wild red eyes is sitting on the ground — she has surrendered; the young vampire wails and thrashes — she wants Bella
• Jane and other members of the Volturi arrive
Jane tortures the young vampire, Bree, for more information; Carlisle offers to take responsibility for Bree; Jane refuses the offer; Felix kills Bree
CHAPTER 26
• Bella goes home to Charlie; she needs to go see Jacob Charlie says Carlisle is treating Jacob; Charlie feels like he is going to lose Bella soon; he asks for advance notice before she leaves with Edward
• Bella goes to see the injured Jacob
Bella and Jacob talk about her knowing that she is in love with him, but still choosing Edward; Jacob is her soul mate in this world, but Bella knows she cannot live without Edward
CHAPTER 27
• Bella reviews all the mistakes she has made, each pain she has caused Jacob, each wound she has given Edward — so much damage
Edward cradles Bella all night as she cries; Bella sees she has made a mess of things; she is now determined to do things right for everyone
• Bella and Edward go to see Alice about her wedding plans Alice is overjoyed; she shows Bella the wedding dress
• Edward and Bella go to the meadow
Bella tells Edward she‘s chosen her life and wants to start living it; Edward puts the ring back on her finger; they go to tell Charlie about their engagement
EPILOGUE
• Jacob grieves over losing Bella; it is painful to know she is giving up everything, becoming a monster — but it would be even more painful if she died
• Jacob receives Bella‘s wedding announcement, along with a personal note from Edward
• Jacob phases into a wolf and runs away, letting Jacob Black disappear behind him
Breaking Dawn
CHAPTER 1, BOOK ONE — BELLA
• Bella feels conspicuous in her ―before‖ car
• Bella sees HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BOY posters for Jacob, who is still missing
• Bella recalls breaking the news of her engagement to Charlie and Renée
CHAPTER 2
• The night before their wedding, Edward worries about all that Bella is giving up Bella is worried about tripping in her wedding gown, and about meeting Tanya and the Denali clan; Carlisle explains that the Denalis‘ mother was destroyed by the Volturi for creating an immortal child
CHAPTER 3
• The wedding day has arrived
Bella is nervous; Edward is keeping the honeymoon destination a secret; Alice and Rosalie work all day on Bella‘s makeup and hair; Charlie and Renée give Bella a set of silver hair combs; Charlie escorts Bella down the stairs
• As soon as Bella sees Edward at the altar, all her fears are gone
CHAPTER 4
• The reception is in the backyard, at twilight
Edward and Bella greet their guests
• Jacob steps out from the woods; Edward leaves so he and Bella can talk alone
• Jacob is horrified to hear that Bella is planning a ―real‖ honeymoon before she becomes a vampire; he grabs Bella and shakes her
Edward is instantly there; Jacob is ready to kill him; Seth and two wolves shove Jacob back into the woods
• Bella composes herself and they go back to the reception
• Bella says a tearful, loving goodbye to Renée and Charlie
CHAPTER 5
• Bella and Edward leave for their honeymoon: they take a plane to Houston, a second one to Rio de Janeiro, and then a boat to Isle Esme
• Edward carries Bella across the threshold; he goes for a midnight swim, waits for Bella in the water
Bella takes a shower to calm down
• Edward is afraid of hurting Bella
• In the morning, Bella wakes to a feeling of pure happiness Edward is angry at himself — he points out the bruises all over Bella‘s body; he berates himself for hurting Bella; she tries to convince him that she is fine, she is happy
• Edward gets up to fix breakfast for Bella, and she asks him if he plans to avoid touching her for the rest of the honeymoon
―THEY WERE YOUR GRANDMA SWAN‘S…. WE HAD A JEWELER
REPLACE THE PASTE STONES WITH SAPPHIRES.‖
— Charlie, on the wedding present he and Renée give Bella (Breaking Dawn, Chapter 3)
CHAPTER 6
• Edward keeps Bella busy with snorkeling, hiking, swimming, exploring, and sunsets Bella tries to seduce Edward with lingerie, bribes, and compromises
• Bella has nightmares about the Volturi and a vampire child, and wakes up crying Bella wants Edward so much; she pleads with him, kisses him; they make love; Edward and Bella are both happy in the morning; Bella gets woozy; the Brazilian cleaning people come; the native woman suspects what Edward is and she is frightened for Bella
CHAPTER 7
• Bella awakes from another dream about the Volturi and the child Edward has gone hunting; Bella fixes herself fried chicken but it tastes wrong so she throws it out
• When Edward gets home Bella starts throwing up; the pieces fall into place; she realizes she must be pregnant
• Bella touches her stomach and feels a little nudge; Edward is stunned
• Alice calls; Bella talks to Carlisle, tells him her theory; he asks some medical questions and agrees she is pregnant
• Edward starts making travel arrangements while hurriedly packing; Bella doesn‘t understand why Edward seems furious
• Bella feels another nudge; she is surprised at how much she already loves her little nudger
• Edward tells her not to be afraid, that he won‘t let the ―thing‖ hurt her
• Bella sneaks a phone call to Rosalie to ask for help
CHAPTER 8, BOOK TWO — JACOB
• Paul has imprinted on Jacob‘s sister Rachel, and no one is pleased; Paul is annoying everyone
• Jacob is waiting to hear about Bella
Jacob spends an afternoon with Quil and Claire
• Sam calls a meeting of the pack; Edward and Bella have returned Jacob feels the treaty has been broken and the wolves should attack; Sam declares that the Cullens are not a danger
CHAPTER 9
• Jacob decides to kill Edward on his own
Carlisle meets Jacob at the door, and Bella calls to Jacob from inside; Jacob sees Edward, who looks like he‘s in agony, half-crazed; Bella is still human but looks sick and haggard — she is pregnant
• Edward takes Jacob outside to talk
Edward looks like a man being burned at the stake; he knows it‘s all his fault; he had no idea this could happen; Rosalie is protecting Bella; Edward asks Jacob to talk to Bella, to tell her she can have a baby with him; Jacob knows Bella will reject him; Edward promises Jacob that the moment Bella‘s heart stops beating, he will beg Jacob to kill him; Jacob tells him they have a deal
CHAPTER 10
• Jacob and Bella speak privately
Bella believes Jacob will imprint on someone and everything will make sense; Bella doesn‘t expect to survive as a human; Bella understands what Edward has sent Jacob to offer, and won‘t consider it; Jacob feels an addiction to be with Bella, but he wants to leave
• The pack decides the risk of this new creature is too great — they will attack the Cullens Sam plans their strategy, and uses the Alpha voice to ensure obedience
CHAPTER 11
• Jacob struggles against Sam‘s order to obey
Jacob is the true Alpha — he was not born to kneel to Sam
• Jacob breaks from the pack; he will stand between the pack and the Cullens
• Jacob leaves to warn the Cullens
Seth breaks from the pack and joins Jacob; they patrol the Cullens‘ land
• Bella‘s condition worsens
CHAPTER 12
• Leah also breaks from the pack and joins Jacob
Leah is irritating; Jacob doesn‘t want to lead a pack; Leah wants to be free of Sam
• Carlisle and Jacob talk; Carlisle is frustrated because he can‘t figure out what the fetus wants; Jacob has a thought about blood, and Edward hears the thought and shares it with the others; Bella agrees to give blood a try
CHAPTER 13
• Jacob stays with Bella — he doesn‘t want to miss the last few minutes of her life Jacob feels that his presence helps Bella
• Bella drinks a cup of blood; it tastes good, and she immediately feels stronger
• Jacob is called to a meeting with some of Sam‘s pack; they want Jacob, Seth, and Leah to rejoin them, but all three say no; Jacob thinks the Alpha bond is permanent
CHAPTER 14
• Bella is better; her whole face lights up when she sees Jacob
• Jacob starts taunting Rosalie with blonde jokes
• The fetus breaks one of Bella‘s ribs
• Alice gets headaches around Bella; she feels better near Jacob
• The Cullens give food and clothes to the now homeless wolves; Jacob and Seth accept, but Leah doesn‘t
CHAPTER 15
• Bella and Charlie talk on the phone; neither Edward nor Jacob condones this
• Bella asks for Jacob; her face lights up again when she sees him Jacob sits next to Bella to keep her warm; Rosalie brings Jacob food in a dog dish
• Bella says Carlisle thinks the baby will be born within four days Jacob feels his ties to Bella get even stronger; Bella thinks that Jacob is supposed to be in her life, but not like this — like they got off track somehow
• Edward tells Jacob about old myths that say vampire babies chew their way out of the womb
CHAPTER 16
• Jacob‘s pack is still protecting the Cullens‘ land
Jacob congratulates Leah on being less annoying than Paul; Leah thinks Jacob makes a good Alpha; Jacob teaches Leah how to better enjoy eating as a wolf
• All the Cullens go hunting except Edward and Rosalie
• Edward hears the baby‘s thoughts: The baby is happy and adores Bella Jacob now sees Bella and Edward as a happy little family; he feels alone and in pain
• Edward hears Jacob‘s pain and gives Jacob the car keys and tells him to get away
CHAPTER 17
• Jacob races away toward Seattle
Jacob hopes he can imprint on someone so he won‘t hurt over Bella anymore; he compares everyone to Bella; he goes back to be with her
• Edward tells Jacob they want to deliver the baby early — tomorrow
• Edward asks Jacob, the true Alpha, to grant him permission to save Bella In anguish, Jacob consents
• Bella bends and there is a ripping sound followed by a shriek of pain
CHAPTER 18
• Bella is semiconscious; her body jerks and twitches; there is a wild thrashing in her body, and sharp snaps and cracks
Edward injects Bella with morphine; Rosalie uses a scalpel to cut Bella‘s skin; blood gushes out, and Rosalie‘s eyes glint with thirst; Jacob knocks Rosalie out the door, hitting her in the face and gut; Alice drags Rosalie away; Rosalie does not fight back
• Jacob performs CPR
• Edward uses his teeth to get to the baby; Jacob doesn‘t look away from Bella‘s face Bella sees the baby, Renesmee, then gasps; Edward snatches the baby away
• Jacob continues CPR as Bella‘s eyes roll back; her heart falters Edward injects a syringe of his venom into Bella‘s heart; he bites her in more places to force venom into her body
• Jacob sees there is no life in Bella — she is a broken, bled-out corpse Bella‘s dead body has no draw for Jacob now, so he leaves; Jacob gave everything to save Bella, but she sacrificed herself to be torn apart by a monster
• Jacob hears Rosalie downstairs, cooing to the monster, feeding it blood Pain and hatred wash through Jacob — the thing must be destroyed; Jacob can feel the pull tugging him toward the abomination
• Rosalie turns around and Jacob looks into the baby‘s eyes Everything that made Jacob what he was floats away and the universe swirls around only one point: Renesmee
―‗DON‘T BE AFRAID,‘ I MURMURED. ‗WE BELONG TOGETHER.‘ I WAS
ABRUPTLY OVERWHELMED BY THE TRUTH OF MY OWN WORDS. THIS
MOMENT WAS SO PERFECT, SO RIGHT, THERE WAS NO WAY TO DOUBT IT.
HIS ARMS WRAPPED AROUND ME, HOLDING ME AGAINST HIM…. IT FELT
LIKE EVERY NERVE ENDING IN MY BODY WAS A LIVE WIRE. ‗FOREVER,‘ HE
AGREED.‖
— Bella (Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5)
CHAPTER 19, BOOK THREE — BELLA
• Bella is bewildered by the pain and darkness
The morphine keeps Bella paralyzed while the venom burns; Bella wants to stay alive for Edward, Jacob, and Renesmee; Bella burns but forces herself to remain silent to lessen Edward‘s anguish
• After two days Bella‘s heart stops; she opens her eyes
CHAPTER 20
• All of Bella‘s senses are magnified: sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch A touch sends Bella into a defensive crouch, until she sees it was Edward; Bella gasps at the beauty of Edward‘s face, voice, and scent
• Bella looks in a mirror and doesn‘t recognize herself; she has red eyes
• Jasper is perplexed by Bella‘s self-control
CHAPTER 21
• Edward takes Bella hunting before letting her see Renesmee
• Bella can run and jump like Edward; she now has raw, massive power Everything physical is easy, but it‘s hard for her to focus the expanded capacity of her mind
• Bella catches the scent of deer, but then smells something more fragrant and turns toward it
Bella hears a pursuer behind her, so she turns and snarls — it‘s Edward; Bella realizes the fragrant smell is human and runs away
• Bella kills a mountain lion and feeds
CHAPTER 22
• Edward and Bella race home to see Renesmee
Jacob meets them outside to test Bella‘s control; Bella is happy that Jacob is still her friend
• Bella sees Renesmee; she looks two months old
Everyone, including Jacob, is afraid to let Bella hold Renesmee; Edward tells everyone about Bella‘s control on their hunting trip
• Renesmee touches Bella‘s face; Bella sees Renesmee‘s thoughts and memories
• Bella sees how Jacob stares at Renesmee
Bella is angry that Jacob has imprinted on Renesmee; Jacob calls the baby Nessie and Bella lunges for his throat
CHAPTER 23
• Because Jacob has imprinted on Renesmee, the pack cannot hurt her; the treaty is reinstated
• Renesmee is growing at an alarming rate
• Jasper is discomfited by Bella‘s control — he wonders if super-self-control is her gift
• Renesmee shows Bella every happening of her day
Renesmee wants Bella to know all about her
• Alice hands Bella a key — today is Bella‘s nineteenth birthday
―THERE, NESTLED INTO A SMALL CLEARING IN THE FOREST, WAS A TINY STONE COTTAGE, LAVENDER GRAY IN THE LIGHT OF THE STARS.‖
— Bella (Breaking Dawn, Chapter 24)
CHAPTER 24
• The birthday present is a house for Bella and Edward: a storybook stone cottage Bella and Edward spend a romantic night together
CHAPTER 25
• Jacob thinks he can help Bella stay in Forks by having Charlie see her and let him make the wrong assumptions
Jacob phases in front of Charlie, then tells Charlie that Bella has changed, that she and Edward are caring for a special baby; Jacob starts to tell Charlie more, but Charlie wants to hear as little as possible — he‘d like to remain on a need-to-know basis; everyone is angry with Jacob, but Jacob didn‘t realize the danger or the pain he was causing Bella; Alice has colored contacts for Bella, to fool Charlie; Bella gets a crash course in acting human; Bella instructs Renesmee not to touch or bite Charlie
• Charlie arrives and sees Bella; he feels shock, disbelief, fear, anger Edward introduces Renesmee as his orphaned niece; Charlie sees the resemblance to Bella and himself
CHAPTER 26
• Charlie spends the day with the family
Bella explains her daughter‘s name: Renesmee = Renée + Esme; Carlie = Carlisle +
Charlie; Charlie acknowledges that Bella looks good and tells her he‘ll get used to the change in her
• Bella is angry about Emmett‘s embarrassing comments
Bella beats Emmett at arm-wrestling
CHAPTER 27
• Renesmee speaks at one week, walks at three weeks; at this rate she will be an adult in four years
Edward and Carlisle plan a trip to South America to find answers
• Aro sends Bella a wedding gift
Bella needs to go see Aro alone in order to protect Renesmee
• Irina comes to apologize but sees Renesmee from a distance and assumes she is an immortal child; Irina runs away
CHAPTER 28
• Alice has a vision of the Volturi and warns the others that they‘re coming Irina has gone to the Volturi with her mistaken assumption; the Volturi plan to destroy the Cullens
• The Cullens need friends to witness for them, to make the Volturi hesitate
• Alice and Jasper leave hurriedly
• Bella tells Jacob that it‘s over, that they‘ve all been sentenced to die
CHAPTER 29
• Alice and Jasper are gone
• Alice leaves a note listing the friends the Cullens need as witnesses
• Alice also leaves a secret note for Bella, in a copy of The Merchant of Venice, about J.
Jenks; Bella realizes she needs to keep the note from Edward
• The Cullens split up to find their witnesses; Edward and Bella stay home to let their expected visitors see Renesmee for themselves
CHAPTER 30
• Bella wants to learn to fight so she can defend herself and her family Edward explains the Volturi‘s strengths; Bella hopes she is immune to some of their gifts
• The Denalis arrive and are horrified to see Renesmee, who they think is an immortal child
Edward convinces them that Renesmee is half-vampire, half-human; they each let Renesmee touch them and show them her story
• The Denalis agree to witness, and feel sad that Irina is the cause of the danger
CHAPTER 31
• Eleazar, who has the gift of sensing the gifts of others, mentions that Bella is a shield Bella and Edward are surprised; Kate wonders if Bella can project her shield onto others
• Under the circumstances, Eleazar has to rethink his opinion of the Volturi Eleazar thinks the Volturi are coming not to punish, but to acquire
• More witnesses arrive; the explanations start again
CHAPTER 32
• The Cullens‘ house is crowded with visitors: the Denalis, Peter and Charlotte, the Irish clan, the Egyptians, a few nomads, the Amazons, the Romanians A few refuse to touch Renesmee, but agree to witness
• Kate and Zafrina try to help Bella learn to project her shield; Bella wants to be able to protect her loved ones
• Bella practices on Edward; Garrett meets Kate
CHAPTER 33
• Bella takes Renesmee and Jacob to visit Charlie; there are twenty-seven vampires in the Cullen house
• Bella leaves to find J. Jenks, a lawyer who provides forged documents Bella understands that Alice has given her a chance to save Renesmee; she knows that this means she and Edward must have no chance of surviving; she decides that Jacob can run with Renesmee to safety; J. Jenks tells her the documents will be ready in a week
CHAPTER 34
• Bella buys a Christmas present for Renesmee — an antique gold locket inscribed with the words more than my own life
• Edward knows Bella is keeping something from him
• Bella is happy that Jacob and Renesmee might survive, and glad that she and Edward will die together
• Bella, Edward, Renesmee, and Jacob spend Christmas with Charlie and the pack
• They return home to find that one of the nomads, Alistair, has run off An Egyptian, Amun, thinks Carlisle is trying to steal half his coven; several vampires commit to fighting the Volturi; others are hesitant; the wolves are ready to fight alongside the vampires
CHAPTER 35
• Bella picks up the documents from J. Jenks
Bella fills a little backpack for Renesmee: documents, money, instructions, love notes
• The entire group prepares to meet the Volturi
―ON HER WRIST WAS AN INTRICATELY BRAIDED QUILEUTE VERSION
OF A PROMISE RING. EDWARD HAD GRITTED HIS TEETH OVER THAT ONE….‖
— Bella, on the bracelet Jacob gives Renesmee (Breaking Dawn, Chapter 34)
CHAPTER 36
• The Volturi come with pageantry — slowly, with the pace of the invincible Bella counts thirty-two Volturi, plus about forty witnesses
• The wolves, now numbering seventeen, join the Cullens; the Volturi halt
• Edward reads their layers of strategy for finding guilt
• Carlisle greets Aro, and explains that no law has been broken Aro wants to hear from Edward; Bella is so angry that she flings her shield across the field with no effort; Aro next wants to see Renesmee
• Aro is convinced that Renesmee is not an immortal child Aro wonders if the werewolves could be loyal to him
CHAPTER 37
• Aro confers with Caius; the Volturi‘s witnesses grow uneasy Bella inspects her shield, wraps it closer around her allies
• Caius proclaims that an alliance with werewolves is against their law Edward explains that the wolves are shape-shifters, not true werewolves
• Caius calls for Irina
Irina refuses to make a formal complaint, and takes responsibility for her mistake; Caius executes Irina; Carlisle and Garrett restrain Irina‘s sisters, Tanya and Kate
• The Volturi witnesses are suspicious; Aro‘s need for an audience has backfired; the Romanians murmur in glee
Aro speaks with a few of the Cullens‘ witnesses; the Volturi drift closer; Aro declares that they need to know with absolute certainty what Renesmee will become if she is to live; Garrett gives a speech about tyranny and freedom; Aro is amused
• More of the Volturi‘s witnesses retreat
Aro, Caius, and Marcus counsel together
• Bella sees the danger coming; she kisses Renesmee goodbye and instructs Jacob to run away with her as soon as the Volturi are distracted
Carlisle acknowledges that there‘s no hope; there are goodbyes and murmured expressions of love
CHAPTER 38
• While Aro, Caius, and Marcus ―counsel,‖ Chelsea tries to break the Cullens‘ emotional ties but can‘t find them
Edward asks Bella if she‘s shielding them, and she confirms that she is; Jane sends sharp jabs at Bella‘s shield, but the shield remains undamaged; Jane is furious; Alec takes over; a strange haze oozes toward the shield, but swirls harmlessly around the edges
• Aro calls for a vote
Caius votes to destroy Renesmee; Marcus sees no immediate danger; Aro must cast the deciding vote
• Edward asks to clarify one point; he asks Aro if they‘ll be forgiven if they can prove that Renesmee is not a threat; Aro agrees
• Edward invites Alice into the clearing
Alice has returned from South America with an olive-skinned female vampire named Huilen and her nephew, Nahuel
• Huilen tells their story; Nahuel is half-vampire, half-human; he matured at seven years and has not changed since; he can drink blood or eat human food Nahuel has sisters, all of whom are nonvenomous
• Aro declares that he sees no threat
• The Volturi leave
• Cheers erupt from the Cullens and friends
Bella promises Renesmee that they‘ll be together forever
CHAPTER 39
• All the Cullens‘ friends return to their homes
The Romanians are extremely disappointed but have enjoyed the Volturi‘s cowardice; Garrett leaves with Kate; the Cullens have a joyous reunion with Alice and Jasper
• Edward explains that the Volturi‘s confidence has been shattered They have never before been outnumbered, the wolves frightened them, and they were terrified of Bella‘s power; Alice gave them an excuse to get out of the fight
• Bella pushes her shield away from her mind, and Edward is able to read her thoughts for the first time
• The ―happily ever after‖ begins
Though, unlike Bella, I do speak Car and Driver to an extent, I would never classify myself as an expert. I wanted this section to offer a rundown on each of the vehicles appearing in the Twilight Saga, so I turned to my usual adviser on all things automotive: my younger brother— and car enthusiast— Jacob Morgan. Jacob wrote the following piece, which sheds light not only on the characters‟ views of vehicles themselves — describing them in more detail than I‟m capable of — but also the way those vehicles reflect the personalities of the characters who drive them. Enjoy! (And never let a mechanic talk down to you.)
CARLISLE: MERCEDES S55 AMG
COLOR: Black
ENGINE: 5.4-liter supercharged V8
HORSEPOWER: 469 hp at 6100 rpm
TORQUE: 516 ft.-lbs. at 2650 rpm
0–60: 4.5 seconds
CARLISLE‘S MERCEDES S55 AMG
―I MIGHT BE THE FURTHEST THING FROM AN AUTOPHILE, BUT I COULD TELL YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR CAR. IT WAS A MERCEDES S55 AMG…. IT WAS CARLISLE‘S CAR.‖
— Bella (New Moon, Chapter 16)
Carlisle‘s choice of car reveals his controlled and reserved personality. Most will recognize the S-class as the pinnacle of luxury cars, but only a few will understand the meaning of the AMG badging on the vehicle. Few differences are apparent from the outside, but the supercharged V8 under the hood produces enough power to shame most of the super exotics offered by legitimate sports-car brands. Mercedes engineers did not stop at the engine; they enhanced all elements of driving, including a stiffer suspension and larger brakes. Despite having sports-car capabilities, this S55 AMG travels mainly unnoticed, being recognized with its more obtainable S-class relatives. The S55 allows Carlisle to cover ground as quickly as any of his children do, and is certainly as expensive as his children‘s impressive cars, but does not stand out like any of his children‘s cars — with the notable exception of Edward‘s S60R. Showcasing his uniquely strong personality, this car represents Carlisle‘s extreme abilities hidden by his eloquent, yet humble, actions and words.
EDWARD: VOLVO S60R
COLOR: Silver
ENGINE: 2.5-liter turbocharged I-5
HORSEPOWER: 300 hp at 5500 rpm
TORQUE: 295 ft.-lbs. at 1950 rpm
0–60: 5.5 seconds
EDWARD‘S VOLVO S60R
―THE SILVER CAR WAS ALREADY THERE, WAITING IN CHARLIE‘S SPOT
ON THE DRIVEWAY. I BOUNDED DOWN THE STAIRS AND OUT THE FRONT
DOOR, WONDERING HOW LONG THIS BIZARRE ROUTINE WOULD CONTINUE.
I NEVER WANTED IT TO END.‖
— Bella (Twilight, Chapter 11)
Most often overlooked, yet also one of the most illuminating of all the cars in the story, is the Silver Volvo S60R. The perfect car for Edward‘s lifestyle and personality, an S60R is the ideal choice for him. Bearing almost no marks to set this simple Volvo apart from its more sedate siblings, the S60R brings no attention to its sports-sedan intent. With 300 horsepower on tap from the doubled pressure of the turbocharger, and an advanced six-speed manual transmission providing power to all four wheels, the silver car is more capable than anyone would guess, assuming that anyone would notice the car in the first place. With a higher lateral acceleration than even Rosalie‘s BMW M3, Edward views the Volvo S60R as capable of cutting through the narrow, winding Washington roads better than all but two of the vehicles in the books: Edward‘s Aston Martin V12 Vanquish and Bella‘s Ferrari F430, shown later. This vehicle was chosen by Edward as an extension of his personality — someone always desiring to blend in, while offering more under the skin than anyone could imagine.
EDWARD: ASTON MARTIN V12 VANQUISH
COLOR: Silver
ENGINE: 5.9-liter V12
HORSEPOWER: 460 hp at 6500 rpm
TORQUE: 400 ft.-lbs. at 5000 rpm
0–60: 4.4 seconds
EDWARD‘S ASTON MARTIN V12 VANQUISH
―IT WAS ANOTHER CAR — A STANDOUT EVEN IN THE LONG LINE OF
VEHICLES THAT WERE MOSTLY ALL DROOL-WORTHY IN THEIR OWN WAYS.‖
— Jacob (Breaking Dawn, Chapter 17)
The Aston Martin V12 Vanquish is the English company‘s response to the world-renowned grand touring cars offered by Ferrari and Mercedes. Splitting those two dissimilar personalities down the middle is the Vanquish, a car that has the looks, performance, and competence of a true sports car, while offering enough luxury to call into question its sporting nature. While capable on a racetrack, this Aston is more comfortable in high-performance cruising, transporting its occupants in the utmost style and comfort.
While the Volvo S60R is the outward expression of Edward‘s inner personality, the silver Aston Martin is more the automotive equivalent to the story‘s hero. While technically a sports car, the British-made Aston is the proper gentleman of the group, just as the Ferrari F430 is the cocky hero. Made in true British style, every ounce of this car alludes to old-world money, power, and manners. The Vanquish stands as a supreme offering from the sports-car world for the reserved driver.
ROSALIE: BMW M3 CONVERTIBLE
COLOR: Red
ENGINE: 3.2-liter Inline 6
HORSEPOWER: 333 hp at 7900 rpm
TORQUE: 262 ft.-lbs. at 4900 rpm
REDLINE: 8000 rpm
0–60: 4.8 seconds
ROSALIE: BMW M3 CONVERTIBLE
―A CROWD OF PEOPLE, ALL BOYS… WERE ACTUALLY CIRCLED
AROUND ROSALIE‘S RED CONVERTIBLE, UNMISTAKABLE LUST IN THEIR
EYES.‖
— Bella (Twilight, Chapter 11)
Rosalie‘s choice of car is limited by the necessity to seat her siblings. Though her personality is best captured by a Lambor-ghini Murcielago, the M3 represents the most extreme sports car that can fit her constraints. The BMW M3 is recognized as one of the best all-around sports cars in the world. While Edward‘s S60R has an all-wheel-drive advantage, and certain offerings from Mercedes-Benz outpower the bimmer, the M3 is recognized as a purist sports car, providing greater driving feel than nearly anything on the road.
With a front-biased weight distribution, rear-wheel drive, and aggressive dry-weather treaded tires, the M3 is not an ideal choice for wet-weather, high-speed driving. These factors, however, are outweighed by its dry-weather performance. And, of course, how good it looks in red.
EMMETT: JEEP WRANGLER
COLOR: Red
ENGINE: 5.7-liter V8
HORSEPOWER: 400 hp
TORQUE: 600 ft.-lbs.
0–60: 4.5 seconds
EMMETT‘S JEEP WRANGLER
―THERE, BEHIND MY TRUCK, WAS A MONSTER JEEP. ITS TIRES WERE
HIGHER THAN MY WAIST.‖
— Bella (Twilight, Chapter 17)
Emmett‘s Jeep started life as a 4.0-liter inline 6-powered Wrangler Rubicon. That quickly changed in Rosalie‘s hands, as the brand-new engine was tossed in favor of a heavily modified Chevrolet small-block V8. Every piece of the already new and capable suspension was replaced to provide several inches of lift and enough strength to take anything the Washington terrain can throw at it.
The bulletproof power train features a five-speed manual transmission, a 4:1 low-range transfer case, 4.10 differential gears, and Dana 44 axles front and rear. Coupled with the high-torque small block, this setup allows Emmett to scale slopes that send other four-wheel-drive vehicles looking for friendlier routes.
Not satisfied with mechanical superiority, Rosalie added everything from massive KC lights to aggressively treaded all-terrain tires to safety harnesses. All of these modifications create a Jeep that is not only the most capable off-road vehicle money can buy, but one that looks equally menacing, acting as the automotive equivalent to the character whose immense strength is easily seen.
ALICE: PORSCHE 911 TURBO
COLOR: Yellow
ENGINE: 3.6-liter Flat 6
HORSEPOWER: 415 hp at 6000 rpm
TORQUE: 415 ft.-lbs. at 2700 rpm
0–60: 4.0 seconds
ALICE‘S PORSCHE 911 TURBO
―A BRIGHT YELLOW PORSCHE SCREAMED TO A STOP A FEW FEET IN
FRONT OF WHERE I PACED, THE WORD TURBO SCRAWLED IN SILVER
CURSIVE ACROSS ITS BACK. EVERYONE BESIDE ME ON THE CROWDED
AIRPORT SIDEWALK STARED.‖
— Bella (New Moon, Chapter 19)
When a fast car is needed to negotiate the tight and often twisting roads of the Italian countryside, Alice turns to, or rather steals, the Porsche 911 turbo. While beautiful, the 911 turbo bears a striking resemblance to its siblings, the base 911 Carreras. Should onlookers miss the large side scoop air intake or the wider body stance over the rear wheels, the turbo could be mistaken for a car not nearly as capable. The 911 turbo is nimble and balanced, making the most of its turbocharged engine by sending power to all four wheels through a complicated all-wheel-drive system. Performing better than even its numbers would suggest, this high-performance 911 variant was engineered on the racetrack, and every piece was purpose-built to allow it to pass much more powerful and expensive cars. Porsche engineers focused on the entire package, ensuring that the engine, suspension, brakes, tires, and every other piece of the puzzle fit together seamlessly.
It is fitting that Alice would fall in love with this car, which offers the same characteristics that she possesses. The Porsche is generally the smallest in the exotic race, offering fewer cylinders and less power in a package that is seemingly less race inspired, yet its subsequent agility allows it to beat its flashier competitors.
JASPER: DUCATI 848
COLOR: Silver
ENGINE: 849-cc V-twin
HORSEPOWER: 134 hp at 10000 rpm
TORQUE: 72 ft.-lbs. at 8400 rpm
0–60: 4.5 seconds
JASPER‘S DUCATI 848
―TO CALL THIS OTHER VEHICLE A MOTORCYCLE HARDLY SEEMED
FAIR…. IT WAS BIG AND SLEEK AND SILVER AND — EVEN TOTALLY
MOTIONLESS — IT LOOKED FAST.‖
— Bella (Eclipse, Chapter 10)
Edward‘s motorcycle of choice, which he gave to Jasper, is a stark contrast to those belonging to Bella and Jacob. The Ducati 848 is a lightweight, high-powered street bike designed to out-accelerate and outmaneuver all things automotive. This sport bike is the lighter Ducati, offering increased agility compared to its heavier, higher-powered siblings.
Easily going beyond most drivers‘ capabilities, this bike is ideally suited for a vampire‘s quickened reflexes, as it requires constant attention to minute angles and positions. This is one of the very few vehicles in the novels that can perform to the level vampires demand, acting as an extension of their natural faculties.
BELLA: CHEVROLET PICK-UP TRUCK
COLOR: Red
ENGINE: 216.5-cubic-inch Inline 6 cylinder
HORSEPOWER: 92 hp at 3400 rpm
TORQUE: 176 ft.-lbs. at 1000 rpm
BELLA‘S CHEVY PICKUP TRUCK
―IT WAS A FADED RED COLOR, WITH BIG, ROUNDED FENDERS AND A BULBOUS CAB. TO MY INTENSE SURPRISE, I LOVED IT. I DIDN‘T KNOW IF IT
WOULD RUN, BUT I COULD SEE MYSELF IN IT.‖
— Bella (Twilight, Chapter 1)
The main automotive character in the Twilight Saga is the 1953 reddish Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Bella. As the highest-selling truck for its entire eight-year run (1947–1954), this post — World War II Advance Design Series truck is still common enough to be found in its original condition. With its stock engine churning out a robust 92 horsepower and a three-speed manual transmission powering just the rear wheels, it is easy to understand Jacob‘s joy in his father‘s sale of this truck. Not fast even by standards of its day, Bella‘s ‘53 did, however, boast state-of-the-art features for the time, such as a fresh-air heater system and a larger two-piece windshield for increased visibility.
As the most simplistic car with perhaps the most unique styling and driving character, this vehicle correctly identifies with the main character, serving as a vehicular analogy to give readers an increased understanding of Bella‘s personality.
BELLA: MERCEDES GUARDIAN
COLOR: Black
ENGINE: 5.5-liter twin turbo V12
HORSEPOWER: 469 hp at 6100 rpm
TORQUE: 516 ft.-lbs. at 2650 rpm
0–60: 4.6 seconds
BELLA‘S MERCEDES GUARDIAN
―BECAUSE I WAS SO FRAGILELY HUMAN, SO ACCIDENT-PRONE, SO
MUCH A VICTIM TO MY OWN DANGEROUS BAD LUCK, APPARENTLY I NEEDED A TANK-RESISTANT CAR TO KEEP ME SAFE. HILARIOUS.‖
— Bella (Breaking Dawn, Chapter 1)
While some of its features are based on the actual Mercedes S600 Guard, the Mercedes Guardian does not exist in reality and is the only fictional car in the Twilight Saga. As its name suggests, the focus of Edward‘s choice for Bella‘s pre-vampiric conversion was entirely on safety. Built from the ground up with protection in mind, the car offers its occupants security from everything that automotive engineers could dream up. Armor designed to resist military-standard small-arms projectiles, hand-grenade fragments, and various other explosive charges lies beneath the car‘s skin, while run-flat tires, a self-sealing fuel tank, and a fire-extinguishing system allow the driver to get out of bad situations. Should assailants switch to a gaseous attack, the Guardian provides occupants with a fresh oxygen supply while completely sealing off the car from all outside air. No doubt understanding Bella‘s limited human reflexes, Edward would also have welcomed the car‘s driving aids, including everything from night vision to electronic brake distribution.
This car highlights the inherent differences in how Edward views Bella and how Bella views herself. Bella is content with her seat belt — lacking Chevy, while Edward puts her in a car generally reserved for land mine — avoiding oil sheiks, sparing no effort, or expense, to protect her in every way possible.
BELLA: FERRARI F430
COLOR: Red
ENGINE: 4.3-liter V8
HORSEPOWER: 483 hp at 8500 rpm
TORQUE: 343 ft.-lbs. at 5250 rpm
0–60: 3.5 seconds
BELLA‘S FERRARI F430
―I HADN‘T SEEN THE ‗AFTER‘ CAR YET. IT WAS HIDDEN UNDER A SHEET IN THE DEEPEST CORNER OF THE CULLENS‘ GARAGE. I KNEW MOST
PEOPLE WOULD HAVE PEEKED BY NOW, BUT I REALLY DIDN‘T WANT TO
KNOW.‖
— Bella (Breaking Dawn, Chapter 1)
The Ferrari F430, hidden until after Bella transforms, is the most stand-out car of the series. This car choice was unencumbered by the normal compromises necessary in the characters‘ car decisions. The Ferrari F430 is the pinnacle of sports-car engineering. Though many ultra exotics have a higher price tag, this car outperforms almost all. In addition, the car‘s beautifully defined lines and curves remind the viewer more of classical Italian sculpture than anything related to transportation. Though it plays only a minor role in the books, it identifies Edward‘s true feelings for Bella. The majority of the cars in the series show Edward as overly obsessed with her safety, but small moments, like revealing the identity of this car, show that his feelings for Bella are much more involved than just a need to protect her.
JACOB: VOLKSWAGEN RABBIT
COLOR: Red
ENGINE: 1.8-liter Inline 4
HORSEPOWER: 90 hp at 5500 rpm
TORQUE: 107 ft.-lbs.
0–60: 10.5 seconds
JACOB‘S VOLKSWAGEN RABBIT
―IT‘S AN OLD RABBIT—1986, A CLASSIC.‖
— Jacob (New Moon, Chapter 5)
Perhaps the most obtainable vehicle in the series, Jacob‘s daily driver is the cult classic Volkswagen Rabbit. With a modest 1.8-liter engine offering just 90 horsepower when it was originally rolling off the factory line, before Jacob was born, this car‘s force of acceleration is not its strong suit. The lightweight front driver makes up for this, though, with remarkably communicative steering, engaging the driver without the use of massive amounts of tire-shredding power.
The VW Rabbit has been accepted by car nuts since its inception as an easily modded driver‘s car. It was the most attractive option for Jacob, with its low cost of entry, ease of repair, and fun return on investment. While worth less than a wheel from Edward‘s Aston Martin, the Rabbit is still capable of putting the same smile on Jacob‘s face.
Highlighting the accessible nature of Jacob‘s character, this car proves that driving enjoyment does not require hundreds of thousands of dollars and looks to match the price tag.
Jacob shows himself as equally endearing despite constant comparisons to Bella‘s perfect vampire love.
JACOB AND BELLA:
HARLEY SPRINT/HONDA XL250
COLOR: Black/red
ENGINE: 1-cylinder 250-cc 4-stroke
HORSEPOWER: 50 hp at 10,000 rpm/24 hp
JACOB‘S HARLEY SPRINT
―THESE AREN‘T HALF BAD…. THIS ONE HERE WILL ACTUALLY BE
WORTH SOMETHING WHEN I‘M DONE — IT‘S AN OLD HARLEY SPRINT.‖
— Jacob (New Moon, Chapter 5)
BELLA‘S HONDA XL250
―WHEN I WALKED INTO THE GARAGE, I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE THE
RED BIKE STANDING UP, LOOKING LIKE A MOTORCYCLE RATHER THAN A PILE OF JAGGED METAL. ‗JAKE, YOU‘RE AMAZING,‘ I BREATHED.‖
— Bella (New Moon, Chapter 7)
These are two motorcycles that were nursed back to life by Jacob. Despite their origins an ocean apart, these two-wheeled vehicles have striking similarities.
Bearing little resemblance to the Harleys of today, the Sprint was offered under the Harley name after the manufacturer bought a 50-percent stake in a small Italian motorcycle firm.
The motorcycle was offered as competition to the technologically superior Japanese motorcycles that were beginning to gain popularity in America. The Sprint was developed with motorcycle racing in mind, and offered impressive performance from the 4-stroke engine.
The 1-cylinder engine allowed the bike to be made with relative simplicity, which meant the mechanically minded, though inexperienced, Jacob would be able to bring the dying bike to life.
Bella‘s Honda was similar to Jacob‘s Harley in a number of respects. A 250-cc 1-cylinder, making power through the then less than common 4-stroke cycle, pulled the bike on road or dirt. Designed as less of a racer than the Harley Sprint, the XL250 was a more well-rounded bike, ready for any ground conditions it might encounter.
THE TWILIGHT SAGA PLAYLIST
Explaining a playlist — especially in writing — is a problem. I‟ve tried to do it before, and what comes out is a lot of “this goes here” and “that goes there.” Not exciting to read, but still, people want to know where a certain song fits into the story, and what it means to the characters.
So what I‟ve done is assign a quote from the series to each song. This will give you the general location of the song, and the specific feeling or issue I was thinking of while listening. I hear all of the songs from Bella‟s perspective, except where otherwise noted. In a few cases (like “Sing for Absolution” on the New Moon playlist) the song is part of a situation that is taking place
“offscreen,” so to speak. In those cases, I‟ve tried to find a quote that identifies the situation even though Bella‟s not around to see it.
Twilight
1. TRAVIS, ―WHY DOES IT ALWAYS RAIN ON ME?‖
Chapter 1 When I landed in Port Angeles, it was raining. I didn‘t see it as an omen — just unavoidable. I‘d already said my goodbyes to the sun.
2. RADIOHEAD, ―CREEP‖ [RADIO EDIT]
Chapter 4 My stomach twisted as I realized what he must have meant. He must see how absorbed I was by him; he must not want to lead me on… so we couldn‘t even be friends… because he wasn‘t interested in me at all.
Of course he wasn‘t interested in me, I thought angrily, my eyes stinging — a delayed reaction to the onions. I wasn‘t interesting. And he was. Interesting… and brilliant… and mysterious… and perfect… and beautiful… and possibly able to lift full-sized vans with one hand.
Well, that was fine. I could leave him alone. I would leave him alone. I would get through my self-imposed sentence here in purgatory, and then hopefully some school in the Southwest, or possibly Hawaii, would offer me a scholarship.
3. COLDPLAY, ―IN MY PLACE‖
Chapter 5 ―I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.‖
4. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, ―I‘M NOT OKAY (I PROMISE)‖
Chapter 5 ―What if I‘m not a superhero? What if I‘m the bad guy?‖
5. LINKIN PARK, ―WITH YOU‖ [REANIMATION REMIX]
Chapter 7 And I knew in that I had my answer. I didn‘t know if there ever was a choice, really. I was already in too deep. Now that I knew — if I knew — I could do nothing about my frightening secret. Because when I thought of him, of his voice, his hypnotic eyes, the magnetic force of his personality, I wanted nothing more than to be with him right now.
6. LINKIN PARK, ―BY MYSELF‖
Chapter 8 It seemed to take forever for me to get to the corner. I kept my pace steady, the men behind me falling ever so slightly farther behind with every step. Maybe they realized they had scared me and were sorry. I saw two cars going north pass the intersection I was heading for, and I exhaled in relief. There would be more people around once I got off this deserted street. I skipped around the corner with a grateful sigh.
And skidded to a stop.
The street was lined on both sides by blank, doorless, windowless walls. I could see in the distance, two intersections down, streetlamps, cars, and more pedestrians, but they were all too far away. Because lounging against the western building, midway down the street, were the other two men from the group, both watching with excited smiles as I froze dead on the sidewalk. I realized then that I wasn‘t being followed.
I was being herded.
7. OMD, ―DREAMING‖
Chapter 12 He was too perfect, I realized with a piercing stab of despair. There was no way this godlike creature could be meant for me.
He stared at me, bewildered by my tortured expression.
―Do you want to go home?‖ he said quietly, a different pain than mine saturating his voice.
―No.‖ I walked forward till I was close beside him, anxious not to waste one second of whatever time I might have with him.
8. DAVID GRAY, ―PLEASE FORGIVE ME‖
Chapter 13 ―Be very still,‖ he whispered, as if I wasn‘t already frozen.
Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat. I was quite unable to move, even if I‘d wanted to. I listened to the sound of his even breathing, watching the sun and wind play in his bronze hair, more human than any other part of him.
With deliberate slowness, his hands slid down the sides of my neck. I shivered, and I heard him catch his breath. But his hands didn‘t pause as they softly moved to my shoulders, and then stopped.
His face drifted to the side, his nose skimming across my collarbone. He came to rest with the side of his face pressed tenderly against my chest.
Listening to my heart.
―Ah,‖ he sighed.
―Music is my one necessary tool. I put on music that fits the mood of what I‘m writing, to help me stay in the zone and get the emotional tone right.‖
— Stephenie
9. DIDO, ―HERE WITH ME‖
Chapter 15 ―I love you,‖ I whispered.
―You are my life now,‖ he answered simply.
There was nothing more to say for the moment. He rocked us back and forth as the room grew lighter.
10. MUSE, ―TIME IS RUNNING OUT‖
Chapter 21 Slowly, slowly, my thoughts started to break past that brick wall of pain. To plan. For I had no choices now but one: to go to the mirrored room and die. I had no guarantees, nothing to give to keep my mother alive. I could only hope that James would be satisfied with winning the game, that beating Edward would be enough. Despair gripped me; there was no way to bargain, nothing I could offer or withhold that could influence him. But I still had no choice. I had to try.
I pushed the terror back as well as I could. My decision was made. It did no good to waste time agonizing over the outcome. I had to think clearly, because Alice and Jasper were waiting for me, and evading them was absolutely essential, and absolutely impossible.
11. COLLECTIVE SOUL, ―TREMBLE FOR MY BELOVED‖
Chapter 24 ―You don‘t know what you‘re asking.‖ His voice was soft; he stared intently at the edge of the pillowcase.
―I think I do.‖
―Bella, you don‘t know. I‘ve had almost ninety years to think about this, and I‘m still not sure.‖
12. THE CRANBERRIES, ―DREAMS‖
Chapter 24 ―I‘ll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships,‖ I said.
―But it just seems logical… a man and woman have to be somewhat equal… as in, one of them can‘t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally.‖
He folded his arms on the side of my bed and rested his chin on his arms. His expression was smooth, the anger reined in. Evidently he‘d decided he wasn‘t angry with me. I hoped I‘d get a chance to warn Alice before he caught up with her.
―You have saved me,‖ he said quietly.
―I can‘t always be Lois Lane,‖ I insisted. ―I want to be Superman, too.‖
13. BILLY JOEL, ―LULLABY (GOODNIGHT, MY ANGEL)‖
Epilogue ―I love you more than everything else in the world combined. Isn‘t that enough?‖
―Yes, it is enough,‖ he answered, smiling. ―Enough for forever.‖
And he leaned down to press his cold lips once more to my throat.
New Moon
1. THE FLAMING LIPS, ―DO YOU REALIZE‖
Chapter 1 I‘d been dreading this day for months.
All through the perfect summer — the happiest summer I had ever had, the happiest summer anyone anywhere had ever had, and the rainiest summer in the history of the Olympic Peninsula — this bleak date had lurked in ambush, waiting to spring.
And now that it had hit, it was even worse than I‘d feared it would be. I could feel it — I was older. Every day I got older, but this was different, worse, quantifiable. I was eighteen.
And Edward never would be.
2. LINKIN PARK, ―PAPERCUT‖
Chapter 1 Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm — into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.
3. MUSE, ―HYPER MUSIC‖
Chapter 3 ―You… don‘t… want me?‖ I tried out the words, confused by the way they sounded, placed in that order.
―No.‖
I stared, uncomprehending, into his eyes. He stared back without apology. His eyes were like topaz — hard and clear and very deep. I felt like I could see into them for miles and miles, yet nowhere in their bottomless depths could I see a contradiction to the word he‘d spoken.
4. MUSE, ―APOCALYPSE PLEASE‖
Chapter 3 With shaky legs, ignoring the fact that my action was useless, I followed him into the forest. The evidence of his path had disappeared instantly. There were no footprints, the leaves were still again, but I walked forward without thinking. I could not do anything else. I had to keep moving. If I stopped looking for him, it was over.
5. THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, ―TIME STANDS STILL‖
Chapter 4 Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.
6. MARJORIE FAIR, ―EMPTY ROOM‖
Chapter 4 I sat down on the bench outside the theater door and tried very hard not to think of the irony. But it was ironic, all things considered, that, in the end, I would wind up as a zombie. I hadn‘t seen that one coming.
Not that I hadn‘t dreamed of becoming a mythical monster once — just never a grotesque, animated corpse.
Not that I hadn‘t dreamed of becoming a mythical monster once — just never a grotesque, animated corpse. I shook my head to dislodge that train of thought, feeling panicky. I couldn‘t afford to think about what I‘d once dreamed of.
It was depressing to realize that I wasn‘t the heroine anymore, that my story was over.
7. MATCHBOX TWENTY, ―UNWELL‖
Chapter 6 Charlie stared at me during breakfast, and I tried to ignore him. I supposed I deserved it. I couldn‘t expect him not to worry. It would probably be weeks before he stopped watching for the return of the zombie, and I would just have to try to not let it bother me. After all, I would be watching for the return of the zombie, too. Two days was hardly long enough to call me cured.
8. JIMMY EAT WORLD, ―PAIN‖
Chapter 7 I turned my back on the gaping emptiness and hurried to my truck. I nearly ran.
I was anxious to be gone, to get back to the human world. I felt hideously empty, and I wanted to see Jacob. Maybe I was developing a new kind of sickness, another addiction, like the numbness before. I didn‘t care. I pushed my truck as fast as it would go as I barreled toward my fix.
9. THE VINES, ―RIDE‖
Chapter 8 I‘d left my stomach back at the starting point; the adrenaline coursed through my body, tingling in my veins.
10. COLDPLAY, ―FIX YOU‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 9 ―It‘s just that, I know how you‘re unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn‘t help anything, but I wanted you to know that I‘m always here. I won‘t ever let you down — I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?‖
11. ROONEY, ―BLUESIDE‖
Chapter 9 I was in deeper than I‘d planned to go with anyone again. Now I couldn‘t bear for him to be hurt, and I couldn‘t keep from hurting him, either. He thought time and patience would change me, and, though I knew he was dead wrong, I also knew that I would let him try.
He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.
12. THE FRAY, ―OVER MY HEAD (CABLE CAR)‖
Chapter 11 I‘d thought Jake had been healing the hole in me — or at least plugging it up, keeping it from hurting me so much. I‘d been wrong. He‘d just been carving out his own hole, so that I was now riddled through like Swiss cheese.
13. EVANESCENCE, ―GOING UNDER‖
Chapter 15 I smiled and raised my arms straight out, as if I were going to dive, lifting my face into the rain. But it was too ingrained from years of swimming at the public pool — feet first, first time. I leaned forward, crouching to get more spring….
And I flung myself off the cliff.
14. BRAND NEW, ―TAUTOU‖
Chapter 15 My ears were flooded with the freezing water, but his voice was clearer than ever. I ignored his words and concentrated on the sound of his voice. Why would I fight when I was so happy where I was? Even as my lungs burned for more air and my legs cramped in the icy cold, I was content. I‘d forgotten what real happiness felt like.
Happiness. It made the whole dying thing pretty bearable.
15. RELIENT K, ―BE MY ESCAPE‖
Chapter 16 What if Paris had been Juliet‘s friend? Her very best friend? What if he was the only one she could confide in about the whole devastating thing with Romeo? The one person who really understood her and made her feel halfway human again? What if he was patient and kind? What if he took care of her? What if Juliet knew she couldn‘t survive without him? What if he really loved her, and wanted her to be happy?
And… what if she loved Paris? Not like Romeo. Nothing like that, of course. But enough that she wanted him to be happy, too?
Jacob‘s slow, deep breathing was the only sound in the room — like a lullaby hummed to a child, like the whisper of a rocking chair, like the ticking of an old clock when you had nowhere you needed to go…. It was the sound of comfort.
If Romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not Juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the leftover scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.
16. THE VERVE PIPE, ―NEVER LET YOU DOWN‖
Chapter 16 ―I know you don‘t feel exactly the way I do, Bells. I swear I don‘t mind. I‘m just so glad you‘re okay that I could sing — and that‘s something no one wants to hear.‖ He laughed his throaty laugh in my ear.
17. MUSE, ―SING FOR ABSOLUTION‖
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 18 ―I saw him going to the Volturi… and asking to die.‖
18. FATBOY SLIM, ―YA MAMMA‖
Chapter 20 She drove in quick spurts and sudden stops, and the people in the crowd shook their fists at us and said angry words that I was glad I couldn‘t understand. She turned onto a little path that couldn‘t have been meant for cars; shocked people had to squeeze into doorways as we scraped by. We found another street at the end. The buildings were taller here; they leaned together overhead so that no sunlight touched the pavement — the thrashing red flags on either side nearly met. The crowd was thicker here than anywhere else. Alice stopped the car.
I had the door open before we were at a standstill.
She pointed to where the street widened into a patch of bright openness. ―There — we‘re at the southern end of the square. Run straight across, to the right of the clock tower. I‘ll find a way around—‖
Her breath caught suddenly, and when she spoke again, her voice was a hiss. ―They‘re everywhere!‖
I froze in place, but she pushed me out of the car. ―Forget about them. You have two minutes. Go, Bella, go!‖ she shouted, climbing out of the car as she spoke.
I didn‘t pause to watch Alice melt into the shadows. I didn‘t stop to close my door behind me. I shoved a heavy woman out of my way and ran flat out, head down, paying little attention to anything but the uneven stones beneath my feet.
19. FOO FIGHTERS, ―DOA‖
Chapter 20 I wished I could ask him exactly what was going to happen now. I wanted desperately to know how we were going to die — as if that would somehow make it better, knowing in advance.
20. MARJORIE FAIR, ―STARE‖
Chapter 22 I couldn‘t keep my eyes off of Edward‘s face for long. I stared at him, wishing more than anything that the future would never happen. That this moment would last forever, or, if it couldn‘t, that I would stop existing when it did.
Edward stared right back at me, his dark eyes soft, and it was easy to pretend that he felt the same way. So that‘s what I did. I pretended, to make the moment sweeter.
21. COLDPLAY, ―THE SCIENTIST‖
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 23 ―You weren‘t going to let go,‖ he whispered. ―I could see that. I didn‘t want to do it — it felt like it would kill me to do it — but I knew that if I couldn‘t convince you that I didn‘t love you anymore, it would just take you that much longer to get on with your life. I hoped that, if you thought I‘d moved on, so would you.‖
―A clean break,‖ I whispered through unmoving lips.
―Exactly. But I never imagined it would be so easy to do! I thought it would be next to impossible — that you would be so sure of the truth that I would have to lie through my teeth for hours to even plant the seed of doubt in your head. I lied, and I‘m so sorry — sorry because I hurt you, sorry because it was a worthless effort. Sorry that I couldn‘t protect you from what I am. I lied to save you, and it didn‘t work. I‘m sorry.‖
22. SUGARCULT, ―MEMORY‖
Chapter 23 ―Don‘t promise me anything,‖ I whispered. If I let myself hope, and it came to nothing… that would kill me. Where all those merciless vampires had not been able to finish me off, hope would do the job.
23. ARMOR FOR SLEEP, ―THE TRUTH ABOUT HEAVEN‖
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 23 ―Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars — points of light and reason…. And then you shot across my sky like a meteor.
Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn‘t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.‖
24. BLUE OCTOBER, ―SOUND OF PULLING HEAVEN DOWN‖
Edward‘s and Bella‘s perspectives
Chapter 24 ―Your epiphany?‖ he asked, his voice uneven and strained.
―You love me,‖ I marveled. The sense of conviction and rightness washed through me again.
Though his eyes were still anxious, the crooked smile I loved best flashed across his face.
―Truly, I do.‖
My heart inflated like it was going to crack right through my ribs. It filled my chest and blocked my throat so that I could not speak.
New Moon ALTERNATES
The contrast between the two of us was painful. He looked like a god. I looked very average, even for a human, almost shamefully plain.
1. PLACEBO, ―DRAG‖
Chapter 3 The last was the picture of Edward and me standing awkwardly side by side.
Edward‘s face was the same as the last, cold and statue-like. But that wasn‘t the most troubling part of this photograph. The contrast between the two of us was painful. He looked like a god. I looked very average, even for a human, almost shamefully plain. I flipped the picture over with a feeling of disgust.
2. BLUE OCTOBER, ―HATE ME‖ [RADIO EDIT]
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 3 ―Bella, I don‘t want you to come with me.‖ He spoke the words slowly and precisely, his cold eyes on my face, watching as I absorbed what he was really saying.
There was a pause as I repeated the words in my head a few times, sifting through them for their real intent.
―You… don‘t… want me?‖ I tried out the words, confused by the way they sounded, placed in that order.
―No.‖
I stared, uncomprehending, into his eyes. He stared back without apology. His eyes were like topaz — hard and clear and very deep. I felt like I could see into them for miles and miles, yet nowhere in their bottomless depths could I see a contradiction to the word he‘d spoken.
3. WEEZER, ―THE WORLD HAS TURNED AND LEFT ME HERE‖
Chapter 4 The thick haze that blurred my days now was sometimes confusing. I was surprised when I found myself in my room, not clearly remembering the drive home from school or even opening the front door. But that didn‘t matter. Losing track of time was the most I asked from life.
4. VERTICAL HORIZON, ―BEST I EVER HAD‖
Chapter 5 I wondered how long this could last. Maybe someday, years from now — if the pain would just decrease to the point where I could bear it — I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life. And, if it were possible that the pain would ever soften enough to allow me to do that, I was sure that I would feel grateful for as much time as he‘d given me. More than I‘d asked for, more than I‘d deserved. Maybe someday I‘d be able to see it that way.
5. EVANESCENCE, ―MY IMMORTAL‖
Chapter 5 As if he‟d never existed, I thought in despair. What a stupid and impossible promise to make! He could steal my pictures and reclaim his gifts, but that didn‘t put things back the way they‘d been before I‘d met him. The physical evidence was the most insignificant part of the equation. I was changed, my insides altered almost past the point of recognition.
6. KEANE, ―EVERYBODY‘S CHANGING‖
Chapter 6 I was beginning to get annoyed with myself. I might as well have been packed in Styrofoam peanuts through the last semester.
7. AUDIOSLAVE, ―LIKE A STONE‖
Chapter 7 I didn‘t go any closer. I didn‘t want to look in the windows. I wasn‘t sure which would be harder to see. If the rooms were bare, echoing empty from floor to ceiling, that would certainly hurt. Like my grandmother‘s funeral, when my mother had insisted that I stay outside during the viewing. She had said that I didn‘t need to see Gran that way, to remember her that way, rather than alive.
But wouldn‘t it be worse if there were no change? If the couches sat just as I‘d last seen them, the paintings on the walls — worse still, the piano on its low platform? It would be second only to the house disappearing all together, to see that there was no physical possession that tied them in anyway. That everything remained, untouched and forgotten, behind them.
Just like me.
8. U2, ―STUCK IN A MOMENT YOU CAN‘T GET OUT OF‖
Chapter 7 I‘d come full circle, and now everything felt like an echo — an empty echo, devoid of the interest it used to have.
9. SALIVA, ―REST IN PIECES‖
Chapter 9 How could I explain so that he would understand? I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house — condemned — for months I‘d been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all — just the one small piece. He deserved better than that — better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.
10. COLLECTIVE SOUL, ―NOT THE ONE‖
Chapter 13 ―Is that what happened? Why the Cullens left?‖
―I‘m nothing but a human, after all. Nothing special.‖
―I‘m nothing but a human, after all. Nothing special,‖ I explained, shrugging weakly.
11. BLINK 182, ―I MISS YOU‖
Chapter 15 ―Bella.‖
I smiled and exhaled.
Yes? I didn‘t answer out loud, for fear that the sound of my voice would shatter the beautiful illusion. He sounded so real, so close. It was only when he was disapproving like this that I could hear the true memory of his voice — the velvet texture and the musical intonation that made up the most perfect of all voices.
―Don‘t do this,‖ he pleaded.
You wanted me to be human, I reminded him. Well, watch me.
―Please. For me.‖
But you won‟t stay with me any other way.
―Please.‖ It was just a whisper in the blowing rain that tossed my hair and drenched my clothes — making me as wet as if this were my second jump of the day.
12. MUSE, ―UNINTENDED‖
Chapter 16 I couldn‘t imagine my life without Jacob now — I cringed away from the idea of even trying to imagine that. Somehow, he‘d become essential to my survival. But to leave things the way they were… was that cruel, as Mike had accused?
I remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother. I realized now that all I really wanted was a claim on him. It didn‘t feel brotherly when he held me like this. It just felt nice — warm and comforting and familiar. Safe. Jacob was a safe harbor.
I could stake a claim. I had that much within my power.
I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.
13. DIDO, ―WHITE FLAG‖
Chapter 20 I‘d never seen anything more beautiful — even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.
14. HOOBASTANK, ―THE REASON‖
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 23 ―I only left you in the first place because I wanted you to have a chance at a normal, happy, human life. I could see what I was doing to you — keeping you constantly on the edge of danger, taking you away from the world you belonged in, risking your life every moment I was with you. So I had to try. I had to do something, and it seemed like leaving was the only way. If I hadn‘t thought you would be better off, I could have never made myself leave. I‘m much too selfish. Only you could be more important than what I wanted… what I needed. What I want and need is to be with you, and I know I‘ll never be strong enough to leave again.‖
Eclipse
1. ELBOW, ―MEXICAN STANDOFF‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 1 ―What part of ‗mortal enemies‘ is too complicated for you…?‖
2. COLDPLAY, ―CLOCKS‖
Chapter 1 ―I thought the timing was still undecided,‖ Edward reminded me softly. ―You might enjoy a semester or two of college. There are a lot of human experiences you‘ve never had.‖
―I‘ll get to those afterward.‖
―They won‘t be human experiences afterward. You don‘t get a second chance at humanity, Bella.‖
3. BLUE OCTOBER, ―OVERWEIGHT‖ [RADIO EDIT]
Jacob‘s perspective
―If Jacob hadn‘t helped me… I‘m not sure what you would have come home to. I owe him better than this, Edward.‖
Chapter 1 ―Please just listen for a minute. This is so much more important than some whim to drop in on an old friend. Jacob is in pain.‖ My voice distorted around the word. ―I can‘t not try to help him — I can‘t give up on him now, when he needs me. Just because he‘s not human all the time… Well, he was there for me when I was… not so human myself. You don‘t know what it was like…. ‖ I hesitated. Edward‘s arms were rigid around me; his hands were in fists now, the tendons standing out. ―If Jacob hadn‘t helped me… I‘m not sure what you would have come home to. I owe him better than this, Edward.‖
4. KEANE, ―HAMBURG SONG‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 3 Jacob dropped the antagonistic façade completely. It was like he‘d forgotten Edward was there, or at least he was determined to act that way. ―I miss you every day, Bella.
It‘s not the same without you.‖
5. THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, ―STAB MY BACK‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 8 ―Don‘t worry about me,‖ he insisted, smiling with deliberate cheer, too brightly. ―I know what I‘m doing. Just tell me if I‘m upsetting you.‖
6. MUSE, ―THE SMALL PRINT‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 8 ―Will you never forgive me, Jacob?‖ I whispered. As soon as I said the words, I wished I hadn‘t. I didn‘t want to hear his answer.
―You won‘t be Bella anymore,‖ he told me. ―My friend won‘t exist. There‘ll be no one to forgive.‖
7. THE KILLERS, ―MR. BRIGHTSIDE‖
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 10 As I turned away from him, I thought I saw a flash of something in his eyes that I wasn‘t supposed to see. I couldn‘t tell for sure what it was exactly. Worry, maybe. For a second I thought it was panic. But I was probably just making something out of nothing, as usual.
Chapter 22 ―The jealousy… it has to be eating at you. You can‘t be as sure of yourself as you seem. Unless you have no emotions at all.‖
―Of course it is,‖ Edward agreed, no longer amused. ―Right now it‘s so bad that I can barely control my voice. Of course, it‘s even worse when she‘s away from me, with you, and I can‘t see her.‖
―Do you think about it all the time?‖ Jacob whispered. ―Does it make it hard to concentrate when she‘s not with you?‖
―Yes and no,‖ Edward said; he seemed determined to answer honestly. ―My mind doesn‘t work quite the same as yours. I can think of many more things at one time. Of course, that means that I‘m always able to think of you, always able to wonder if that‘s where her mind is, when she‘s quiet and thoughtful.‖
8. MUSE, ―NEWBORN‖
Chapter 13 ―Benito had created an army of newborn vampires. He was the first one to think of it, and, in the beginning, he was unstoppable. Very young vampires are volatile, wild, and almost impossible to control. One newborn can be reasoned with, taught to restrain himself, but ten, fifteen together are a nightmare.‖
9. THE MAGIC NUMBERS, ―LOVE ME LIKE YOU‖
Jacob‘s and Edward‘s perspectives
Chapter 15 ―One more thing,‖ Edward said slowly. ―I‘ll be fighting for her, too. You should know that. I‘m not taking anything for granted, and I‘ll be fighting twice as hard as you will.‖
―Good,‖ Jacob growled. ―It‘s no fun beating someone who forfeits.‖
―She is mine.‖ Edward‘s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. ―I didn‘t say I would fight fair.‖
―Neither did I.‖
10. DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, ―VINDICATED‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 21 He laughed with me, and then his eyes were sad. ―When are you finally going to figure out that you‘re in love with me, too?‖
―Leave it to you to ruin the moment.‖
―I‘m not saying you don‘t love him. I‘m not stupid. But it‘s possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I‘ve seen it in action.‖
11. MUSE, ―HYSTERIA‖
Chapter 23 My brain disconnected from my body, and I was kissing him back. Against all reason, my lips were moving with his in strange, confusing ways they‘d never moved before — because I didn‘t have to be careful with Jacob, and he certainly wasn‘t being careful with me.
My fingers tightened in his hair, but I was pulling him closer now.
He was everywhere. The piercing sunlight turned my eyelids red, and the color fit, matched the heat. The heat was everywhere. I couldn‘t see or hear or feel anything that wasn‘t Jacob.
―The most solid example of songs on the playlists being the ones that shaped the book was when I was working on Eclipse. I was in the car with my sister listening to
‗Hysteria‘ by Muse — we were out of town and I had my Absolution CD because I don‘t travel without it. We were listening to ‗Hysteria‘ and the kiss scene between Bella and Jacob choreographed itself in my mind, down to the number of steps. I can hear him in thebeat as he‘s walking toward her. The scene is not everybody‘s favorite, but I certainlyenjoy it.‖
— Stephenie
12. ALANIS MORISSETTE, ―UNINVITED‖
Chapter 23 Jacob was right. He‘d been right all along. He was more than just my friend.
That‘s why it was so impossible to tell him goodbye — because I was in love with him. Too. I loved him, much more than I should, and yet, still nowhere near enough. I was in love with him, but it was not enough to change anything; it was only enough to hurt us both more. To hurt him worse than I ever had.
13. PLACEBO, ―INFRA-RED‖
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 24 ―Don‘t go, Victoria,‖ he murmured in that same hypnotic tone as before.
―You‘ll never get another chance like this.‖
She showed her teeth and hissed at him, but she seemed unable to move farther away from me.
―You can always run later,‖ Edward purred. ―Plenty of time for that.‖
14. MUSE, ―YES PLEASE‖
Bree‘s perspective
Chapter 25 After a second of fruitless searching, my gaze crept back to the young female vampire. She was still watching me, her eyes half-mad.
I met the girl‘s stare for a long moment. Chin-length dark hair framed her face, which was alabaster pale. It was hard to tell if her features were beautiful, twisted as they were by rage and thirst. The feral red eyes were dominant — hard to look away from. She glared at me viciously, shuddering and writhing every few seconds.
15. BRAND NEW, ―THE BOY WHO BLOCKED HIS OWN SHOT‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 26 ―You know that story in the Bible?‖ Jacob asked suddenly, still reading the blank ceiling. ―The one with the king and the two women fighting over the baby?‖
―Sure. King Solomon.‖
―That‘s right. King Solomon,‖ he repeated. ―And he said, cut the kid in half… but it was only a test. Just to see who would give up their share to protect it.‖
―Yeah, I remember.‖
He looked back at my face. ―I‘m not going to cut you in half anymore, Bella.‖
16. & 17. TRAVIS, ―LUV‖ AND MUSE, ―BLACKOUT‖
Jacob‘s and Bella‘s perspectives
Chapter 26 With a sigh, he turned his cheek toward me.
I leaned in and kissed his face softly. ―Love you, Jacob.‖
He laughed lightly. ―Love you more.‖
He watched me walk out of his room with an unfathomable expression in his black eyes.
18. OK GO, ―IT‘S A DISASTER‖
Chapter 27 My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I‘d made, every bit of harm I‘d done, the small things and the big things. Each pain I‘d caused Jacob, each wound I‘d given Edward, stacked up into neat piles that I could not ignore or deny.
And I realized that I‘d been wrong all along about the magnets. It had not been Edward and Jacob that I‘d been trying to force together, it was the two parts of myself, Edward‘s Bella and Jacob‘s Bella. But they could not exist together, and I never should have tried.
I‘d done so much damage.
19. MUSE, ―FALLING AWAY WITH YOU‖
ALTERNATES:
ARCADE FIRE, ―THE WELL AND THE LIGHTHOUSE‖
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, ―SLEEP‖
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, ―THIS IS HOW I DISAPPEAR‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Epilogue Come home when you can. The words were faint, trailing off into blank emptiness as he left, too. And I was alone.
Hear this, and nothing more. Feel nothing but speed, nothing but the pull of muscle, sinew, and bone, working together in harmony as the miles disappeared behind me.
So much better. Now I could hear the faint rustle of the matted leaves beneath my toenails, the whisper of an owl‘s wings above me, the ocean — far, far in the west — moaning against the beach. Hear this, and nothing more. Feel nothing but speed, nothing but the pull of muscle, sinew, and bone, working together in harmony as the miles disappeared behind me.
If the silence in my head lasted, I would never go back. I wouldn‘t be the first one to choose this form over the other. Maybe, if I ran far enough away, I would never have to hear again….
I pushed my legs faster, letting Jacob Black disappear behind me.
Breaking Dawn BOOK ONE
1. BILLY IDOL, ―WHITE WEDDING‖
Chapter 1 I briefly contemplated my issues with words like fiancé, wedding, husband, etc.
I just couldn‘t put it together in my head.
On the one hand, I had been raised to cringe at the very thought of poofy white dresses and bouquets. But more than that, I just couldn‘t reconcile a staid, respectable, dull concept like husband with my concept of Edward. It was like casting an archangel as an accountant; I couldn‘t visualize him in any commonplace role.
2. THE BEACH BOYS, ―WOULDN‘T IT BE NICE‖
Chapter 1 ―Getting married, though? What‘s the rush?‖ He eyed me suspiciously again.
The rush was due to the fact that I was getting closer to nineteen every stinking day, while Edward stayed frozen in all his seventeen-year-old perfection, as he had for over ninety years. Not that this fact necessitated marriage in my book, but the wedding was required due to the delicate and tangled compromise Edward and I had made to finally get to this point, the brink of my transformation from mortal to immortal.
These weren‘t things I could explain to Charlie.
3. MUSE, ―CAN‘T TAKE MY EYES OFF OF YOU‖
Chapter 4 And when the music started, Edward pulled me into his arms for the customary first dance; I went willingly, despite my fear of dancing — especially dancing in front of an audience — just happy to have him holding me. He did all the work, and I twirled effortlessly under the glow of a canopy of lights and the bright flashes from the cameras.
4. BLUE OCTOBER, ―CONGRATULATIONS‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 4 ―You‘d think I‘d be used to telling you goodbye by now,‖ he murmured.
I tried to swallow the lump in my throat, but I couldn‘t force it down.
Jacob looked at me and frowned. He wiped his fingers across my cheek, catching the tears there.
―You‘re not supposed to be the one crying, Bella.‖
―Everyone cries at weddings,‖ I said thickly.
―This is what you want, right?‖
―Right.‖
―Then smile.‖
5. PLAIN WHITE T‘S, ―TAKE ME AWAY‖
Jacob‘s perspective
Chapter 4 ―I‘ll kill you,‖ Jacob said, his voice so choked with rage that it was low as a whisper. His eyes, focused on Edward, burned with fury. ―I‘ll kill you myself! I‘ll do it now!‖
He shuddered convulsively.
The biggest wolf, the black one, growled sharply.
―Seth, get out of the way,‖ Edward hissed.
Seth tugged on Jacob again. Jacob was so bewildered with rage that Seth was able to yank him a few feet farther back. ―Don‘t do it, Jake. Walk away. C‘mon.‖
Sam — the bigger wolf, the black one — joined Seth then. He put his massive head against Jacob‘s chest and shoved.
The three of them — Seth towing, Jake trembling, Sam pushing — disappeared swiftly into the darkness.
6. JACK‘S MANNEQUIN, ―DARK BLUE‖
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 5 I half-smiled, then raised my free hand — it didn‘t tremble now — and placed it over his heart. White on white; we matched, for once. He shuddered the tiniest bit at my warm touch. His breath came rougher now.
―I promised we would try,‖ he whispered, suddenly tense. ―If… if I do something wrong, if I hurt you, you must tell me at once.‖
I nodded solemnly, keeping my eyes on his. I took another step through the waves and leaned my head against his chest.
―Don‘t be afraid,‖ I murmured. ―We belong together.‖
7. COLDPLAY, ―NO MORE KEEPING MY FEET ON THE GROUND‖
Chapter 5 The sun, hot on the bare skin of my back, woke me in the morning. Late morning, maybe afternoon, I wasn‘t sure. Everything besides the time was clear, though; I knew exactly where I was — the bright room with the big white bed, brilliant sunlight streaming through the open doors. The clouds of netting would soften the shine.
I didn‘t open my eyes. I was too happy to change anything, no matter how small. The only sounds were the waves outside, our breathing, my heartbeat….
8. FUEL, ―HEMORRHAGE‖
Edward‘s perspective
Chapter 7 When I could no longer bear the violent energy radiating out of him, I quietly left the room. His manic concentration made me sick to my stomach — not like the morning sickness, just uncomfortable. I would wait somewhere else for his mood to pass. I couldn‘t talk to this icy, focused Edward who honestly frightened me a little.
Breaking Dawn BOOK TWO
Jacob‘s perspective
9. NINE INCH NAILS, ―DOWN IN IT‖
Chapter 8 I wondered — would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up?
I threw myself down on the bed. I was tired — hadn‘t slept since my last patrol — but I knew I wasn‘t going to sleep. My head was too crazy. The thoughts bounced around inside my skull like a disoriented swarm of bees. Noisy. Now and then they stung. Must be hornets, not bees. Bees died after one sting. And the same thoughts were stinging me again and again.
10. AEROSMITH, ―WHAT IT TAKES‖
Chapter 9 I saw her at the same moment that I caught her scent.
Her warm, clean, human scent.
Bella was half-hidden behind the arm of the sofa, curled up in a loose fetal position, her arms wrapped around her knees. For a long second I could see nothing except that she was still the Bella that I loved, her skin still a soft, pale peach, her eyes still the same chocolate brown.
My heart thudded a strange, broken meter, and I wondered if this was just some lying dream that I was about to wake up from.
11. INCUBUS, ―EARTH TO BELLA‖ (PART 1)
Chapter 10 ―If you think that imprinting could ever make sense of this insanity…‖ I struggled for words. ―Do you really think that just because I might someday imprint on some stranger it would make this right?‖ I jabbed a finger toward her swollen body. ―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‖—the words were a snarl—―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.‖ She flinched, but I kept going. ―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.‖
12. INTERPOL, ―NO I IN THREESOME‖
Chapter 10 She knew what I was offering, and she wasn‘t going to think twice about it.
I‘d known that she wouldn‘t. But it still stung.
―There isn‘t much you wouldn‘t do for me, either, is there?‖ she whispered. ―I really don‘t know why you bother. I don‘t deserve either of you.‖
―It makes no difference, though, does it?‖
―Not this time.‖
13. KORN, ―TWISTED TRANSISTOR‖
Leah‘s perspective
Chapter 12 Seth doesn‘t want or need your protection. In fact, no one wants you here.
Oooh, ouch, that‘s gonna leave a huge mark. Ha, she barked. Tell me who does want me around, and I‘m outta here.
So this isn‘t about Seth at all, is it?
Of course it is. I‘m just pointing out that being unwanted is not a first for me. Not really a motivating factor, if you know what I mean.
14. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, ―THE SHARPEST LIVES‖
Chapter 15 Two weeks to a day, the days flying by. Her life speeding by in fast-forward.
How many days did that give her, if she was counting to forty? Four? It took me a minute to figure out how to swallow.
―You okay?‖ she asked.
I nodded, not really sure how my voice would come out.
Edward‘s face was turned away from us as he listened to my thoughts, but I could see his reflection in the glass wall. He was the burning man again.
15. MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK, ―POINT OF EXTINCTION‖
Chapter 15 ―It feels… complete when you‘re here, Jacob. Like all my family is together.
I mean, I guess that‘s what it‘s like — I‘ve never had a big family before now. It‘s nice.‖ She smiled for half a second. ―But it‘s just not whole unless you‘re here.‖
―I‘ll never be part of your family, Bella.‖
I could have been. I would have been good there. But that was just a distant future that died long before it had a chance to live.
―You‘ve always been a part of my family,‖ she disagreed.
My teeth made a grinding sound. ―That‘s a crap answer.‖
―What‘s a good one?‖
―How about, ‗Jacob, I get a kick out of your pain.‘ ‖
I felt her flinch.
―You‘d like that better?‖ she whispered.
―It‘s easier, at least. I could wrap my head around it. I could deal with it.‖
Our minds were more closely linked than they had ever been before, because we both were trying to think together.
16. TV ON THE RADIO, ―WOLF LIKE ME‖
Chapter 16 She hesitated for a second, but then, tentatively, she seemed to reach out with her mind and try to see my way. It felt very strange — our minds were more closely linked than they had ever been before, because we both were trying to think together.
Strange, but it helped her. Her teeth cut through the fur and skin of her kill‘s shoulder, tearing away a thick slab of streaming flesh. Rather than wince away as her human thoughts wanted to, she let her wolf-self react instinctively. It was kind of a numbing thing, a thoughtless thing. It let her eat in peace.
It was easy for me to do the same. And I was glad I hadn‘t forgotten this. This would be my life again soon.
Was Leah going to be a part of that life? A week ago, I would‘ve found that idea beyond horrifying. I wouldn‘t‘ve been able to stand it. But I knew her better now. And, relieved from the constant pain, she wasn‘t the same wolf. Not the same girl.
17. R.E.M., ―ACCELERATE‖
Chapter 16 And I was all alone with my hatred and the pain that was so bad it was like being tortured. Like being dragged slowly across a bed of razor blades. Pain so bad you‘d take death with a smile just to get away from it.
The heat unlocked my frozen muscles, and I was on my feet.
All three of their heads snapped up, and I watched my pain ripple across Edward‘s face as he trespassed in my head again.
―Ahh,‖ he choked.
I didn‘t know what I was doing; I stood there, trembling, ready to bolt for the very first escape that I could think of.
Moving like the strike of a snake, Edward darted to a small end table and ripped something from the drawer there. He tossed it at me, and I caught the object reflexively.
―Go, Jacob. Get away from here.‖ He didn‘t say it harshly — he threw the words at me like they were a life preserver. He was helping me find the escape I was dying for.
The object in my hand was a set of car keys.
18. JIMMY GNECCO FEATURING BRIAN MAY, ―SOMEONE TO DIE
FOR‖
Chapter 18 Everything inside me came undone as I stared at the tiny porcelain face of the half-vampire, half-human baby. All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was — my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self—disconnected from me in that second— snip, snip, snip—and floated up into space.
I was not left drifting. A new string held me where I was.
Not one string, but a million. Not strings, but steel cables. A million steel cables all tying me to one thing — to the very center of the universe.
I could see that now — how the universe swirled around this one point. I‘d never seen the symmetry of the universe before, but now it was plain.
The gravity of the earth no longer tied me to the place where I stood.
It was the baby girl in the blond vampire‘s arms that held me here now.
Renesmee.
Breaking Dawn BOOK THREE
19. SMASHING PUMPKINS, ―TODAY‖
Chapter 20 Everything was so clear.
Sharp. Defined.
The brilliant light overhead was still blinding-bright, and yet I could plainly see the glowing strands of the filaments inside the bulb. I could see each color of the rainbow in the white light, and, at the very edge of the spectrum, an eighth color I had no name for.
20. RIGHT SAID FRED, ―I‘M TOO SEXY‖
Chapter 20 My first reaction was an unthinking pleasure. The alien creature in the glass was indisputably beautiful, every bit as beautiful as Alice or Esme. She was fluid even in stillness, and her flawless face was pale as the moon against the frame of her dark, heavy hair.
Her limbs were smooth and strong, skin glistening subtly, luminous as a pearl.
21. THE TEMPER TRAP, ―SWEET DISPOSITION‖
Chapter 27 And I was euphoric the vast majority of the time. The days were not long enough for me to get my fill of adoring my daughter; the nights did not have enough hours to satisfy my need for Edward.
22. LINKIN PARK, ―PTS.OF.ATHRTY‖
Chapter 28 ―The Volturi,‖ Alice moaned.
―All of them,‖ Edward groaned at the same time.
―Why?‖ Alice whispered to herself. ―How?‖
―When?‖ Edward whispered.
―Why?‖ Esme echoed.
―When?‖ Jasper repeated in a voice like splintering ice.
Alice‘s eyes didn‘t blink, but it was as if a veil covered them; they became perfectly blank. Only her mouth held on to her expression of horror.
―Not long,‖ she and Edward said together. Then she spoke alone. ―There‘s snow on the forest, snow on the town. Little more than a month.‖
23. 3 DOORS DOWN, ―DUCK AND RUN‖
Chapter 29 ―I‘m not going down without a fight,‖ Emmett snarled low under his breath.
―Alice told us what to do. Let‘s get it done.‖
The others nodded with determined expressions, and I realized that they were banking on whatever chance Alice had given us. That they were not going to give in to hopelessness and wait to die.
Yes, we all would fight. What else was there? And apparently we would involve others, because Alice had said so before she‘d left us. How could we not follow Alice‘s last warning?
The wolves, too, would fight with us for Renesmee.
We would fight, they would fight, and we all would die.
We would fight, they would fight, and we all would die.
24. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL, ―HAZY SHADE OF WINTER‖
Chapter 33 And then my smile faded. Alice had sent me here for a reason, and I was sure it was to protect Renesmee. Her last gift to me. The one thing she would know I needed…
It was as I had suspected. We couldn‘t win. But we must have a good shot at killing Demetri before we lost, giving Renesmee the chance to run.
My still heart felt like a boulder in my chest — a crushing weight. All my hope faded like fog in the sunshine. My eyes pricked.
25. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, ―I WILL FOLLOW YOU INTO THE
DARK‖
Chapter 35 Edward cocked one eyebrow as I approached, but otherwise did not remark on my accessory or Renesmee‘s. He just put his arms tight around us both for one long moment and then, with a deep sigh, let us go. I couldn‘t see a goodbye anywhere in his eyes. Maybe he had more hope for something after this life than he‘d let on.
26. MUSE, ―INTRO [ABSOLUTION]‖
Chapter 35 Another minute ticked by, and I found myself straining to hear some sound of approach.
And then Edward stiffened and hissed low between his clenched teeth. His eyes focused on the forest due north of where we stood.
We stared where he did, and waited as the last seconds passed.
27. MUSE, ―TAKE A BOW‖
Chapter 36 They came with pageantry, with a kind of beauty.
They came in a rigid, formal formation. They moved together, but it was not a march; they flowed in perfect synchronicity from the trees — a dark, unbroken shape that seemed to hover a few inches above the white snow, so smooth was the advance.
The outer perimeter was gray; the color darkened with each line of bodies until the heart of the formation was deepest black. Every face was cowled, shadowed. The faint brushing sound of their feet was so regular it was like music, a complicated beat that never faltered.
At some sign I did not see — or perhaps there was no sign, only millennia of practice — the configuration folded outward. The motion was too stiff, too square to resemble the opening of a flower, though the color suggested that; it was the opening of a fan, graceful but very angular.
The gray-cloaked figures spread to the flanks while the darker forms surged precisely forward in the center, each movement closely controlled.
Their progress was slow but deliberate, with no hurry, no tension, no anxiety.
Their progress was slow but deliberate, with no hurry, no tension, no anxiety. It was the pace of the invincible.
28. MUSE, ―ASSASSIN‖
Garrett‘s perspective
Chapter 37 ―We have the answer to all these questions. We heard it in Aro‘s lying words — we have one with a gift of knowing such things for certain — and we see it now in Caius‘s eager smile. Their guard is just a mindless weapon, a tool in their masters‘ quest for domination.
―So now there are more questions, questions that you must answer. Who rules you, nomads? Do you answer to someone‘s will besides your own? Are you free to choose your path, or will the Volturi decide how you will live?
―I came to witness. I stay to fight. The Volturi care nothing for the death of the child.
They seek the death of our free will.‖
He turned, then, to face the ancients. ―So come, I say! Let‘s hear no more lying rationalizations. Be honest in your intents as we will be honest in ours. We will defend our freedom. You will or will not attack it. Choose now, and let these witnesses see the true issue debated here.‖
29. OK GO, ―INVINCIBLE‖
Chapter 38 I could taste it as soon as it touched my shield — it had a dense, sweet, cloying flavor. It made me remember dimly the numbness of Novocain on my tongue.
The mist curled upward, seeking a breach, a weakness. It found none. The fingers of searching haze twisted upward and around, trying to find a way in, and in the process illustrating the astonishing size of the protective screen.
There were gasps on both sides of Benjamin‘s gorge.
―Well done, Bella!‖ Benjamin cheered in a low voice.
My smile returned.
I could see Alec‘s narrowed eyes, doubt on his face for the first time as his mist swirled harmlessly around the edges of my shield.
And then I knew that I could do this. Obviously, I would be the number-one priority, the first one to die, but as long as I held, we were on more than equal footing with the Volturi. We still had Benjamin and Zafrina; they had no supernatural help at all. As long as I held.
30. TRAVIS, ―SAFE‖
Chapter 38 ―Forever,‖ I promised her.
We had forever. And Nessie was going to be fine and healthy and strong. Like the half-human Nahuel, in a hundred and fifty years she would still be young. And we would all be together.
Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me — so extreme, so violent that I wasn‘t sure I‘d survive it.
31. ELBOW, ―ONE DAY LIKE THIS‖
Chapter 39 ―Bella!‖ Edward whispered in shock.
I knew it was working then, so I concentrated even harder, dredging up the specific memories I‘d saved for this moment, letting them flood my mind, and hopefully his as well.
Some of the memories were not clear — dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I‘d seen his face… the way it felt when he‘d held me in the meadow… the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he‘d saved me from James… his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me… every precious moment from the island… his cold hands touching our baby through my skin…
And the sharp memories, perfectly recalled: his face when I‘d opened my eyes to my new life, to the endless dawn of immortality… that first kiss… that first night…
And the sharp memories, perfectly recalled: his face when I‘d opened my eyes to my new life, to the endless dawn of immortality… that first kiss… that first night…
―I heard you,‖ he breathed. ―How? How did you do that?‖
―Zafrina‘s idea. We practiced with it a few times.‖
He was dazed. He blinked twice and shook his head.
―Now you know,‖ I said lightly, and shrugged. ―No one‘s ever loved anyone as much as I love you.‖
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
1. MUSE, ―YES PLEASE‖
Page 55 It was impossible to mistake the noise. The boom boom boom of the bass, the video-game soundtrack, the snarling. Totally our crowd.
Page 83 The sound of the thudding music that greeted my approach was accompanied by the unmistakable sweet, smoky scent of a burning vampire. My panic went into overdrive. I could just as easily die inside the house as outside.
2. YEAH YEAH YEAHS, ―HEADS WILL ROLL‖
Page 9 I turned off my brain. It was time to hunt. I took a deep breath, drawing in the scent of the blood inside the humans below. They weren‘t the only humans around, but they were the closest. Who you were going to hunt was the kind of decision you had to make before you scented your prey. It was too late now to choose anything.
3. WHITE RABBITS, ―MIDNIGHT AND I‖
Page 13 I followed him up the alley wall, and then we swung across the girders under the freeway. The lights from the cars below didn‘t touch us. I thought how stupid people were, how oblivious, and I was glad I wasn‘t one of the clueless.
4. THE THERMALS, ―NOW WE CAN SEE‖
Page 35 We sat in silence, pondering this. I mostly thought about how much I didn‘t know. And why hadn‘t I worried about everything I didn‘t know before now? It was like talking to Diego had cleared my head. For the first time in three months, blood was not the main thing in there.
5. HA HA TONKA, ―FALLING IN‖
Diego‘s perspective
Pages 49–50 Diego grinned at me, his face beautiful with light, and suddenly, with a deep lurch in my stomach, I realized that the whole BFF thing was way off the mark. For me, anyway.
It was just that fast.
His grin softened a little bit into just the hint of a smile. His eyes were wide like mine.
All awe and lights. He touched my face, the way he‘d touched my hand, as if he was trying to understand the shine.
―So pretty,‖ he said. He left his hand against my cheek.
6. THE DEAD WEATHER, ―ROCKING HORSE‖
Pages 57–58 ―I see the little girl made it, too,‖ said a new voice, and I shuddered because it was Raoul. I felt a little bit of relief that he didn‘t know my name, but mostly I just felt horrified that he‘d noticed me at all.
―Yeah, she followed me.‖ I couldn‘t see Diego, but I knew he was shrugging.
―Aren‘t you the savior of the hour?‖ Raoul said snidely.
―We don‘t get extra points for being morons.‖…
―Interesting attitude you got, Diego. You think that Riley likes you so much he‘s gonna care if I kill you. I think you‘re wrong. But either way, for tonight, he already thinks you‘re dead.‖
7. REFUSED, ―NEW NOISE‖
Page 113 Riley had better control of them than I had thought possible.
Still, it was mostly repetition. I noticed Riley saying the same things over and over and over again. Work together, watch your back, don‟t go at her head-on; work together, watch your back, don‟t go at him head-on; work together, watch your back, don‟t go at her head-on. It was kind of ridiculous, really, and made the group seem exceptionally stupid. But I was sure I would have been just as stupid if I‘d been in the thick of the fight with them rather than watching calmly from the sidelines with Fred.
It reminded me in a way of how Riley had drilled into us our fear of the sun. Constant repetition.
8. BLUE OCTOBER, ―WHAT IF WE COULD‖
Pages 89–90 And I suddenly realized something stupendously obvious. It was the solution that had tickled the edges of my understanding before, when I was tracking the vampire herd to this place with Diego….
We didn‘t have to come back the other night! We shouldn‟t have! Why hadn‘t I thought of it then?…
We could disappear, and Riley would have to make do with nineteen vampires, or make some new ones quick. Either way, not our problem.
I couldn‘t wait to tell Diego my plan. My gut instinct was that he would feel the same.
Hopefully.
9. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, ―SICK, SICK, SICK‖
Pages 105–106 His face was not twisted in rage, the way it usually was when he was angry; it was calm and cold, smooth and beautiful, his mouth curled at the edges into a small smile. I suddenly had the impression that this was a new Riley. Something had changed him, hardened him, but I couldn‘t imagine what could have happened in one night to create that cruel, perfect smile.
10. SILVERSUN PICKUPS, ―THE ROYAL WE‖
Page 115 Kristie and Raoul growled, and both of their companies followed suit immediately. I was surprised to see it, but they did look like an army in that moment. Not that they were marching in formation or anything, but there was just something uniform about the response. Like they all were part of one big organism.
I could see that the idea of a real fight — of being not only allowed but encouraged to rip and burn — was almost as exciting as hunting.
Pages 133–134 It took them a minute, but everyone started to realize that this was it, and they got quieter and more fierce. I could see that the idea of a real fight — of being not only allowed but encouraged to rip and burn — was almost as exciting as hunting. It appealed to people like Raoul and Jen and Sara.
11. MEESE, ―COUNT ME OUT‖
Fred‘s perspective
Pages 136–137 ―You‘re not going?‖
Fred shook his head. ―Of course not. It‘s obvious we‘re not being told what we need to know. I‘m not going to be Riley‘s pawn…. I‘m out. I‘m going to explore on my own, see the world.‖
12. METRIC, ―BLINDNESS‖
Page 143 But it didn‘t feel like I had a choice. I headed south in a flat-out sprint again. I had to go get Diego. Drag him away if it came to that. We could catch up with Fred. Or take off on our own. We needed to run. I would tell Diego how Riley had lied. He would see that Riley had no intention of helping us fight the battle he‘d set up. There was no reason to help him anymore….
And then I heard the snarling and screaming and screeching explode from ahead and I knew the fight was happening and I was too late to beat Diego there. I only ran faster. Maybe I could still save him.
13. DAN MANGAN, ―SET THE SAILS‖
Pages 162–163 I was of two minds about survival anyway. I didn‘t want to die, I didn‘t want pain, but what was the point? Everyone else was dead. Diego had been dead for days.
His name was right on my lips. I almost whispered it aloud. Instead, I gripped my skull with both hands and tried to think about something that wouldn‘t hurt.
O ne of the things I most enjoy about Twilight fans is their creativity. I remember the first time I saw a piece of original artwork inspired by my book…. I was speechless. I was so flattered and impressed by the talent and effort that had been spent on illustrating my story. Since then, I‟ve seen thousands of original drawings, paintings, and even videos, and I always love getting to experience what the fans are seeing in their heads when they read. Here is just a small sample of the talent and imagination that the fans bring to the Twilight world.
THE CULLENS
RINIAN
BELLA AND EDWARD
STEPHANIE MARTIN (―ANYAE‖)
BELLA SWAN
JESSICA TANNER (―SILIVRENSTAR―)
EDWARD CULLEN
KATRI NAYOUNG (―ROHANELF―)
YOUNG JACOB BLACK
KIM KINCAID
BELLA x JACOB— ECLIPSE
LEEN ISABEL (―LENITY‖)
JACOB AND BELLA — SUNNY DAYS
ALLYA KOESOEMA (―ALIZARIN‖)
BELLA x EDWARD— TWILIGHT
LEEN ISABEL (―LENITY‖)
HOW TO SAVE A LIFE (CARLISLE)
ANGELINA CARILLO (―SHIRE22‖)
ESME CULLEN
SAYEH GORJIFARD (―LAMPOONA‖)
ROSALIE
VALERIA BOGADO (―PALNK‖)
BRUTE FORCE (EMMETT CULLEN)
KIM KINCAID
JASPER WHITLOCK
KATRINA YOUNG (―ROHANELF‖)
ALICE POPISH
VALERIA BOGADO (―PALNK‖)
THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW (BELLA, EDWARD, AND JACOB)
DARCY RIPLEY (―TAINTED TEA‖)
HEADACHE (ALICE)
DARCY RIPLEY (―TAINTED TEA‖)
The Twilight Saga has been translated into forty-eight languages and counting, so this guide would not be complete without a gallery of covers from around the world. While some international publishers used the original U.S. covers, others went in completely different directions. Here is a sampling of international interpretations of the Twilight Saga covers.
CZECH REPUBLIC
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse: exact translations; Breaking Dawn: ―Daybreak.‖ © Egmont
DENMARK
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight: ―Twilight Volume 1‖ and ―Twilight Volume 2‖ ©
Forlaget Sesam/Carlsen; Cover design: Thomas Scoeke-Eyelab.dk
FRANCE
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight: ―Fascination‖; New Moon: ―Temptation‖; Eclipse:
―Hesitation‖ © Hachette Livre
GERMANY
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight: ―Until the Break of Dawn‖ or ―Bite at the Break of Dawn‖; New Moon: ―Until Noon‖ or ―Bite at Noon‖; Eclips e: ―Until the Evening Glow‖ or ―Bite at the Evening Glow‖; Breaking Dawn: ―Until the End of the Night‖ or ―Bite at the End of the Night.‖ Carlsen Verlag.
INDONESIA
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight: exact translation; New Moon: ―Two Loves‖; Eclipse: exact translation; Breaking Dawn: ―A New Beginning.‖ © PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
Illustrator: Dianing Ratri
JAPAN
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight, volume 1: ―Whom I Loved Was a Vampire‖; volume 2: ―Blood Is a Taste of Sorrow‖; volume 3: ―Vampire Family in Darkness.‖ © Gotsubo X Ryuji 2005
TITLE TRANSLATION: New Moon, volume 4: ―Tusk Speaks Sweetly‖; volume 5:
―Moon of Wolf‖; volume 6: ―Grief of Falling Angel.‖ © Gotsubo X Ryuji 2006
TITLE TRANSLATION: Eclipse, volume 7: ―Red Mark‖; volume 8: ―Give Me a Cold Kiss‖; volume 9: ―Time of Monsters.‖ © Gotsubo X Ryuji 2007
TITLE TRANSLATION: Breaking Dawn, volume 10: ―Bride of Vampire‖; volume 11:
―Guardian Deity of Dawn‖; volume 12: ―Immortal Child‖; volume 13: ―Embracing Forever.‖
Volumes 11–12 © Gotsubo X Ryuji 2008; Volumes 12–13 © Gotsubo X Ryuji 2009
KOREA
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn: exact translations © Bookfolio
RUSSIA
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn: exact translations. © AST Publishers
THAILAND
TITLE TRANSLATION: Twilight: “ First Night‖; New Moon: exact translation; Eclipse:
―Eclipse Blessing‖; Breaking Dawn, volume 1: ―First Blush‖; Breaking Dawn, volume 2: ―Next Blush.‖ © Book Innovation Co., Ltd.
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