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Listening to the Midnight Sun audiobook (read by Jake Abel) and once again I love the meadow scene/day/night like I can't tell you. 🥺 Edward is just so attuned to how the whole universe is reshaping itself around Bella. How every new thought surprises him. How every word she speaks splashes color onto a sterile world. How this is making him mortal and he is savoring every second of it. If he had a heartbeat he would hear it stumbling, slowing down to match hers. He is just aching to let himself enjoy falling in love and for 24 hours he does, I—

but I knew even then… in a crowd of thousands, i´d find him again.

Anyone who slanders Bella swan can NOT be trusted tbh

Isabel Allende, The House of The Spirits // Anne Carson, Red Doc> // F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // 肉包不吃肉, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun // Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (trans. Carol Brown Janeway) // Heart Like Yours— Willamette Stone

Which Cullen finally let it slip to Bella that they'd once had a family meeting re: whether or not to murder her?

Oh, this was totally Emmett. He was like "Woah, things would be so different if we had decided to kill Bella in that meeting." and Bella's like "Y'all had a meeting about possibly killing me?!" and gets all "YOU NICKNAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER THE LOCH NESS MONSTER" angry. Alice eventually calms her down and is like "Btw, I voted against killing you."

I have a little something in the works for you guys and with today’s eclipse, it felt like the perfect moment to give you a little peek into it :) 🩸🍎🌙

Guess who… 🤫

RIP Bella’s Bottle Cap March 3, 2005 - March 17, 2005

I pulled from my shirt pocket the little bottle cap I’d been carrying around with me for weeks. My token of Bella—my talisman, my silly but reassuring physical link to her. It flashed dully in my hand for a moment, and then I pulverized it between my thumb and index finger and let the fragments of steel fall onto the remains of the camera. I didn’t deserve any link, any claim to her at all.

She walked almost reverently into the golden light. It gilded her hair and made her fair skin glow. Her fingers trailed over the taller flowers, and I was reminded again of Persephone. Springtime personified. (x)

Through all these little things, I was able to add the most important quality to my list, the most revealing of them all, as simple as it was rare. Bella was good. All the other things added up to that whole: Kind and self-effacing and unselfish and brave—she was good through and through. And no one seemed aware of that besides me. (x)

Her happiness had become the most important thing. More important than my own.

(x)

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer 

It would always be so for me, too. I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence.

(x)

bella swan loves the desert. she loves vast open skies that go on forever uninterrupted. she loves scraggly, barren trees. she loves ancient, stoic rock formations. she sees beauty and life in places where others may only see desolation and emptiness.

so no, I don’t think it’s bad writing to have the arizona girl fall in love with the living-stone vampire who thinks his existence is meaningless.

the cullens through time: edward

“So why does Edward bother being good? Because he doesn’t like causing suffering. Even living on the death of the very evilest of humans, eventually all the killing makes him feel purely monstrous, and he hates feeling that way. He wants to feel like himself.”

the cullens through time: jasper

“He was blond, like the first, but taller and leaner. His skin was absolutely covered in scars, spaced most thickly together on his neck and jaw. A few small marks on his arm were fresh, but the rest were not from the brawl today. He had been in more fights than I could have imagined, and he’d never lost. His tawny eyes blazed and his stance exuded the barely contained violence of an angry lion.”

the cullens through time: alice

“The short girl was pixie-like, thin in the extreme, with small features. Her hair was deep black, cropped short and pointing in every direction.”