#swan

I told you I didn't want to fight with Charlie." "Nobody said that you had to." I glowered at him. "I can't help myself when he gets all bossy like that―my natural teenage instincts overpower me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward-cullen #nature

If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#believe-in-yourself #ducks #envy #evil-envy #human-nature

I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. ‘I do,’ he vowed. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#victory

Edward: Bella, please stop taking your clothes off! Bella: Why? Did you wanna do that part? ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#eclipse #edward-cullen #seduction #seduction

It was not going to be the end of the world. Just the end of the Cullens. The end of Edward, the end of me. I preferred it that way – the last part anyway. I would not live without Edward again; if he was leaving this world, then I would be right behind him. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#twilight

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward-cullen #edward-cullen-quote #midnight-sun #romance #twilight

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ↗

— Hans Christian Anderson

#born #does #duck #egg #hatched

Why am I covered in feathers ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#breaking-dawn #twilight #twilight

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks. ↗