“After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?”

“It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom is to the heart. As long as the heart keeps beating, poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through it. Eventually the heart stops, and the conversion is finished. But all the time, every minute of it, a victim would be wishing for death”

“We've had this conversation before, but humor me. How many people in this room have a soul? A shot at heaven, or whatever there is after this life.”

“But how could you believe me? After all the thousands of times I told you I loved you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?”

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

“Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.”

“Until your heart stops beating, Bella," he said. "I'll be here-- fighting.”