Eclipse Quotes - Page 3

• I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

  Annie Dillard

  Flirting, Men, Doe

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hands, Stopping, Firsts

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Way, Behavior, Bad Behavior

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mass Destruction, Hands, Luck

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.

  Simon Newcomb

  Party, Sea, Swag

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Love Of My Life, Switzerland

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• Interceded? You threw me to the sharks!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sharks

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stitches, May, Bleeding

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• Just you wait till I’m a vampire! I’m not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Waiting, Vampire

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I miss you when you’re not there. When you’re happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You’re family. I love you, but I’m not in love with you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Love You, Missing

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Smell, Black

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love Is, Evil, Quality

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• You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Forgiving, Saint

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I'll always be waiting in the wings Bella

  Stephenie Meyer

  Wings, Waiting

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• Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Two, Voice, Brave

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her… You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Brother, Moving, Sight

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• I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Fighting, Promise

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• Does my being half-naked bother you?

  Taylor Lautner

  Twilight, Half, Doe

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• I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Vampire, Trying, Looks

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• I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." — Jacob Black

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Black, Leeches

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• Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Party, Safety, Vampire

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Well… don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dog, Twilight, Smell

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race, Views, Two

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.214, Psychology Press

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• I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don’t care who’s a werewolf and who’s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Country, Twilight, Party

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fighting, Dark, Voice

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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