“I suppressed a shudder at the image. Blood is so very gross to me. If Igive myself a paper cut, I nearly hyperventilate.”
“The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.”
“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.”
“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.”
“I shuddered at the image in my head, at the word feed. But Jasper wasn’t worried about frightening me, not overprotective like Edward always was.”
“The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home!”