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mY dReAM hOmE=P

iM tOtaLLY iN-LoVEd wITH ThIS hOUSE..fROM iTS ARCHITECtURE TO tHE pERSONALiTY UP TO iTS aTTItUDE.

I found this house so ADDICTIVE.=p

I aDmIT,.. i ReALLY lOVE tROPICAL dESIGN AND The first Time I saw the House at the movie TWILIGHT, I keep sUrfing The net to Find Details abOut It.

It is popuLarly known As the CULLEN HOUSE.. But in ReaLity.. ITs the HOKE HOUSE.. Design BY Arch.’t. Jeff Kovel of SKYLAB architecture.

This is the living area– color scheme came so neutral–it binds outdoor to its interior…=p

Hmmn.. I guess even human can live here EDWARD!.,,hahaha..=P

Edward Cullen: “What did you expect? Coffins, and dungeons and moats?”
Bella: “Um..not the moats.”..

AI..talaga naman.. I dont have the strength to get off this house anymore…hahaha

The amazing symmetry and rough floor looks great, and the (perhaps over used) hanging lamp looks great in this living room.

How did I got here?…

The funny side–my brother thought i Love Robert Pattinson..lol

He didn’t know that im SICK—desperately in-LOVE with this one..=p

Sino bang hindi..?!

Amazing bathroom window/skylight would allows its users to feel very free and open when stripped down and having a shower.

At parang ang sarap yatang mag-babad sa TUB na ito…di ba?..hahaha=p

This portion of the house made me remember about one of my instructor…

HAH!…i can imagine how he’ll react about its atmosphere.. BONGGA YA NEH!!

hahaha=p

The contemporary boxy home is well positioned on the site, the architects have taken advantage of the natural sloping landscape and have strategically placed the home so it looks out over the greenery.

SORRY…these are just some of the picture That I can SHARE for now..hahaha=p

BAka unahan nyo pa akong ipatayo ito in the nEar future..hehehe=p

…Basta..libre lang mangarap..malay natin diba?..=p

O..sya…have enough of this BLOG… Back to CADD nako..

APplying some Filipino planning at its design…LOL=p

–Arkiprincess=p

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THE TWILIGHT SAGA

Twilight 

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Overview

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Writers (WGA):

Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay)
Stephenie Meyer (novel)

Contact:

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Release Date:

26 November 2008 (Philippines) more

Tagline:

When you can live forever what do you live for? more

Plot:

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire. full summary | full synopsis

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Awards:

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Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

Plot summary

Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn’t expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she’s ever met. He’s nothing like anyone she’s ever met, period. He’s intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn’t like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. That’s right - vampire. But he doesn’t have fangs - that’s just in the movies. And he doesn’t drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair - between vampire and mortal. Written by http://www.summit-ent.com/

Isabella Swan moves to gloomy Forks to live with her father. As she starts her junior year in high school she becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen who holds a dark secret which is only known by his family. Edward falls in love with Bella as well but knows the further they progress in their relationship the more he is putting Bella and those close to her at risk. Edward warns Bella that she should leave him but she refuses to listen and to understand why he is saying this. Bella learns his secret. He is a vampire, however she is not afraid of his blood-thirsty needs and the fact he could kill her at any moment. Bella is afraid of losing him, the love of her life. The thrill begins when a new vampire finds it a challenge to hunt Bella down for her irresistible blood. The game is on and James will not stop until she is killed. Written by courtney

Bella Swan is a clumsy, kind hearted teenager with a knack for getting into trouble. Edward Cullen is an intelligent, good looking vampire who is trying to hide his secret. Against all odds, the two fall in love but will a pack of blood thirsty trackers and the disapproval of their family and friends separate them?

Memorable quotes

James: Oh, still stubborn, aren’t we? Is that what makes you so special to Edward?


Isabella Swan: How old are you?
Edward Cullen: Seventeen.
Isabella Swan: How long have you been seventeen?
Edward Cullen: A while.


Isabella Swan: Clair de Lune is great.
Edward Cullen: [Edward spins Isabella around and she gives him a look] What?
Isabella Swan: I can’t dance
[laughs]
Isabella Swan: .
Edward Cullen: Hmm… Well, I could always make you.
Isabella Swan: I’m not scared of you.
Edward Cullen: [laughs] Well you really shouldn’t have said that.


[from trailer]
Emmett Cullen: This is *wrong*, Edward! She’s not one of us!


Jessica Stanley: Bella! Guess who just asked me to prom. I totally thought Mike was gonna ask you, actually. Um, it’s not gonna be weird though, right?
Isabella Swan: No, no. Zero weirdness. You guys are great together.
Jessica Stanley: I know, right?


James: Beautiful. Very visually dynamic. I chose my stage well.


Isabella Swan: Are you going to tell me how you stopped the van?
Edward Cullen: Yeah. Um… I had an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can Google it.


Edward Cullen: What did you expect? Coffins and dungeons and moats?
Isabella Swan: No, not the moats.
Edward Cullen: Not the moats.


Isabella Swan: Graduation caps?
Edward Cullen: Private joke. We matriculate a lot.


[from trailer]
Edward Cullen: Are you afraid?
Isabella Swan: I’m only afraid of losing you.


Edward Cullen: The hunt is his obsession. He’s never gonna stop!


Isabella Swan: [to Edward] I’d rather die than to stay away from you.


Edward Cullen: And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
Isabella Swan: What a stupid lamb.
Edward Cullen: What a sick, masochistic lion.


Isabella Swan: Will you tell me the truth?
Edward Cullen: No, probably not.
[Bella turns away slighly angry]
Edward Cullen: I’d rather hear your theories.
Isabella Swan: I have considered radiocative spiders and kryptonite.
Edward Cullen: All superhero stuff right? But what if I’m not the hero? What if I am the bad guy?
Isabella Swan: You’re not.
[Edward smiles]


Edward Cullen: I only said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.
Isabella Swan: What does that mean?
Edward Cullen: It means if you’re smart… you’ll stay away from me.
Isabella Swan: Okay, let’s say for argument’s sake that I’m not smart.


Edward Cullen: That’s what you dream about? Being a monster?
Isabella Swan: I dream about being with you forever.


Isabella Swan: You know, your mood swings are kinda giving me whiplash.


Rosalie Hale: Here comes the human.
[Bella and Edward walk around the corner]
Esme Cullen: [Runs up to Bella] Bella! We’re making Italiano for you.
Isabella Swan: Okay.
Edward Cullen: Bella, this is Esme, my mother for all intents and purposes.
Isabella Swan: Buongiorno?
Esme Cullen: Molto Bene!
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: It gives us an excuse to use the kitchen for the first time.
Esme Cullen: I hope you’re hungry.
Isabella Swan: Yeah, absolutely!
Edward Cullen: She already ate.
Rosalie Hale: [Breaks the bowl she's holding] Perfect!
Isabella Swan: Yeah-it’s just that I know… I know you guys don’t eat.
Esme Cullen: Of course, that’s very considerate of you.
Edward Cullen: Just ignore Rosalie. I do.
Rosalie Hale: Yeah! Let’s just keep pretending like this isn’t dangerous for all of us.
Isabella Swan: I would never tell anybody anything.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: She knows that.
Emmett Cullen: Yeah, well the problem is… you two have gone public now so…
Esme Cullen: Emmett!
Rosalie Hale: No, she should know. The entire family will be implicated if this ends badly.
Isabella Swan: Badly as in… I become the meal.
[Alice comes in through the window]


Edward Cullen: [to Bella] You are my life now.


Isabella Swan: [to Edward] How did you get over to me so fast?
Edward Cullen: [to Bella] I was standing right next to you, Bella.
Isabella Swan: No. You were next to your car, across the lot.
Edward Cullen: No, I wasn’t.
Isabella Swan: Yes, you were.
Edward Cullen: Bella, you hit your head. I think you’re confused.
Isabella Swan: I know what I saw.
Edward Cullen: And what exactly was that?
Isabella Swan: You stopped the van. You pushed it away with you hand.
Edward Cullen: Well, nobody’s going to believe you.
Isabella Swan: I wasn’t going to tell anybody. I just need to know the truth.
Edward Cullen: Can’t you just thank me and get over it?
Isabella Swan: Thank you.
Edward Cullen: You’re not going to let this go, are you?
Isabella Swan: No.
Edward Cullen: Well then I hope you enjoy disappointment.


Laurent: [to Cullens] I am Laurent, and this is Victoria, and James.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: I’m Carlisle, this is my family.
[looks from side to side at family]
Laurent: So, could you use three more players?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [glances in Edward's direction] Sure, why not? A few of us were leaving, you can take their place. We’ll bat first.
[tosses baseball at Laurent]
Victoria: [catches ball in front of Laurent] I’m the one with the wicked curve ball.


Edward Cullen: [shuts car door] Carlisle, what’s going on?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [sighs] Waylon Forge was found in a boat out near his place, I just examined the body.
Isabella Swan: He died? How?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Animal attack
[looks at Edward]
Isabella Swan: [glances at Edward]
[to Carlisle]
Isabella Swan: Was it the same one that got that security guard down at Mason?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [sighs, then glances at Edward] Most likely.
Isabella Swan: It must getting closer to town then…
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [cuts Bella off] Bella, you should go inside. Waylon was your father’s friend.
Isabella Swan: Okay.
[glances at Edward and walks up stairs]
Isabella Swan: [turns around to Carlisle then to Edward] Um, I’ll see you later.
[Carlisle turns to Edward]


Isabella Swan: Look, You gotta give me some answers.
Edward Cullen: Yes. No. To get to the other side. Uh, 1.77245…
Isabella Swan: I don’t need to know what the square root of pi is.
Edward Cullen: You knew that?


Billy Black: [to Bella] We came for your flat-screen. And because Jacob wouldn’t stop talking about seeing you again.
Jacob Black: Thanks, Dad. Nice.
Billy Black: I’m just keepin’ it real, son.


Eric Yorkie: Cute, Mike. Let a playa play!


Rosalie Hale: [after Edward asks her to put on Bella's coat to distract James] Why should I? What is she to me?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [Hands her the coat] Bella is with Edward. She’s a part of this family, and we protect our family.


Edward Cullen: I should go back there and rip those guys’ heads off.
Isabella Swan: Um… No, you shouldn’t.
Edward Cullen: You don’t know the vile, repulsive things they were thinking.
Isabella Swan: And you do?
Edward Cullen: It’s not hard to guess.
Edward Cullen: Can you talk about something else? Distract me so i won’t turn around.
Isabella Swan: You should put your seat belt on.
Edward Cullen: Haha… you should put your seat belt on!


Rosalie Hale: [after Emmett catches the baseball by climbing a tree] My monkey man!


Eric Yorkie: [to Bella] So I was wondering… if you have a- a da…
Mike Newton: [shakes wet hat over Bella's head] ’sup Arizona? How you likin the rain girl?
Eric Yorkie: Yeah, Mike, you’re real cute you know that?


Mike Newton: What’s sup, Arizona? How you likin’ the rain, girl?


Isabella Swan: Everyone’s staring.
Edward Cullen: No, not that guy. Oh wait, he looked.


Edward Cullen: I don’t have the strength to stay away from you anymore.
Isabella Swan: Then don’t.


Isabella Swan: Everybody’s staring.
Edward Cullen: Not that guy. No he just looked. Breaking all the rules now anyways.
[looks at Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice]
Edward Cullen: Since I’m going to hell
[slips arm around Bella's shoulder]


Isabella Swan: Did you follow me?
Edward Cullen: I… I feel very protective of you.
Isabella Swan: So you followed me.
Edward Cullen: I was trying to keep a distance unless you needed my help and then I heard what those low-lives were thinking.
Isabella Swan: Wait. You say you heard what they were thinking?
Isabella Swan: So what you… you read minds?
Edward Cullen: I can read every mind in this room apart from yours. There’s… Money. Sex. Money. Sex. Cat… And then you, nothing. That’s very frustrating.
Isabella Swan: Is there something wrong with me?
Edward Cullen: See… I tell you I can read minds and you think there’s something wrong with you?


Isabella Swan: [Last lines] No one will surrender tonight, but I won’t give in. I know what I want.


Charlie Swan: Did he hurt you?
Isabella Swan: No.
Charlie Swan: Break up with you or something?
Isabella Swan: No, I-I broke up with him.
Charlie Swan: I thought you liked him?
Isabella Swan: Yea, that’s why - that’s why I have to leave. I don’t want this. I have to go home.
Charlie Swan: Home… Your mom is not even in Phoenix.
Isabella Swan: She’ll come home. I’ll call her from the road.
Charlie Swan: Your not going to drive home right now. You can sleep on it. If you still feel like going in the morning I’ll take you to the airport.
Isabella Swan: N-No I want to drive, it will give me more time to think. And if I get really tired I’ll pull into a motel I promise.
Charlie Swan: Look Bella, I know I’m not that much fun to be around but I can change that. We can do more stuff together.
Isabella Swan: Like what? Like watch baseball on the flat screen? Eat at the diner every night? Steak and cobbler. Dad that’s you, that’s not me.
Charlie Swan: Bella come on. I-I just got you back.
Isabella Swan: Yea, and you know if I don’t get out now I’ll just be stuck here like mom.


Edward Cullen: Hold on tight, spidermonkey.
[climbs up tree]
Edward Cullen: Do you trust me?
Isabella Swan: In theory…
Edward Cullen: Close your eyes.
[Jumps to next tree and climbs to top]
Edward Cullen: [Bella gasps] What?
Isabella Swan: This isn’t real. This kind of stuff just doesn’t exist.
Edward Cullen: It does in my world.


Isabella Swan: Badly as in… I become the meal.
[Alice comes in through the window]
Alice Cullen: Hi Bella!
[Walks up to Bella and hugs her]
Alice Cullen: Oh, you do smell good.
Edward Cullen: Alice, what are you-?
Alice Cullen: It’s okay. Bella and I are going to be great friends.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Sorry, Jasper’s our newest vegetarian. It’s still a little difficult for him.
Jasper Hale: Pleasure to meet you.
Alice Cullen: It’s okay Jasper, you won’t hurt her.
Edward Cullen: Alright, I’m going to take her on a tour of the rest of the house.
Alice Cullen: Well, I’ll see you soon.
Isabella Swan: Okay.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: I think that went well.
Esme Cullen: [to Rosalie] Clean this up! Now!


Isabella Swan: [Voice-over] Death is peaceful - easy. Life is harder.


Victoria: I’m the one with the wicked curve ball.
Jasper Hale: Oh well I think we can handle that.


James: [Gesturing towards Bella's handheld camera] I borrowed this from your house. Hope you don’t mind.


Cora: [Handing a plate to the author of 'Twilight'] Here’s your veggie plate, Stephenie.


Isabella Swan: Who are they?
Angela Weber: The Cullens.
Jessica Stanley: They’re um, Dr. and Mrs. Cullen’s foster kids, they moved down here from Alaska like, a few years ago.
Angela Weber: They, kinda keep to themselves.
Jessica Stanley: Yeah ’cause they’re all together, like TOGETHER together. Uh, the blonde girl, that’s Rosalie, and the big dark-haired guy Emmett, they’re like a thing, I’m not even sure that’s legal.
Angela Weber: Jess, they’re not actually related.
Jessica Stanley: Yeah, but they live together it’s weird-and, okay, the little dark-haired girl is Alice, she’s REALLY weird, and, um, she’s with Jasper the blonde one who looks like he’s in pain.


Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [to Edward, when he is attacking James] Remember who you are.


Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [while Edward is sucking the venom and blood out of Bella] Edward, stop. Her blood is clean. You’re killing her. Stop. Find the will.


Angela Weber: Smile!
[camera clicks]
Isabella Swan: Okay.
Angela Weber: Sorry, I needed a candid for the feature
Eric Yorkie: The Feature’s dead Angela, don’t bring it up again!
Isabella Swan: It’s okay, I just…
Eric Yorkie: I-I got your back baby.
Angela Weber: I guess we’ll just run another editorial on… Teen Drinking…
Isabella Swan: You know, you could always go for… eating disorders? Speedo padding on the swim team.
Angela Weber: Actually, that’s a good one…
Jessica Stanley: Kirk right?
Angela Weber: [in unison] Kirk.
Jessica Stanley: That’s exactly what I thought.
Angela Weber: We’re talking “Olympic Sized”.
Jessica Stanley: There’s no way - he’s so skinny, it doesn’t make sense.
Angela Weber: Totally.


Eric Yorkie: Hey, Mikey - you met my home girl, Bella
Mike Newton: Oh, you-yo-your home girl?
Tyler Crowley: My girl.
[kissed Bella's cheek, and pulls Mike's chair out from under him]
Mike Newton: [chases Tyler through Cafeteria]
Jessica Stanley: Oh my god, it’s like, the first grade all over again, you’re the shiny new toy…


Edward Cullen: I’m the world’s most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I would need any of that. As if you could outrun me. As if you could fight me off. I’m designed to kill.


Rosalie Hale: Is she even Italian?
Emmett Cullen: Her name is Bella.
Rosalie Hale: Get a whiff of that.
Rosalie Hale: Here comes the human.


Isabella Swan: I can’t bring myself to regret the decisions that brought me to Forks. They also brought me to Edward.


Edward Cullen: I hate you for making me want you so much.


Jessica Stanley: Hey you’re from Arizona right?
Isabella Swan: Yeah.
Jessica Stanley: Aren’t people from Arizona supposed to be like, reall tan?
Isabella Swan: Yeah, maybe, that’s why they kicked me out.


Edward Cullen: I leave you alone for two minutes and the wolves descend.


Edward Cullen: [pushes microscope towards Bella] Ladies first.
Isabella Swan: You were gone.
Edward Cullen: Yeah, um, I was out of town for a couple of days, personal reasons.
Isabella Swan: [pushes microscope towards Edward] Uh, prophase.
Edward Cullen: Do you mind if I uh, look?
[Bella shakes her head]
Edward Cullen: It’s prophase.
Isabella Swan: Like I said.
Edward Cullen: So you enjoying the rain?
[Bella laughs]
Edward Cullen: What?
Isabella Swan: You’re asking me about the weather?
Edward Cullen: Yeah, I-I guess I am.
Isabella Swan: Well, I don’t really like the rain. Any cold, wet thing I don’t really…
Edward Cullen: [laughs]
Isabella Swan: What?
Edward Cullen: Nothing uh,
[laughs]
Edward Cullen: it’s uh, anaphase.
Isabella Swan: You mind if I check?
Edward Cullen: Sure.
Isabella Swan: Anaphase.
Edward Cullen: [smiles] Like I said.


Isabella Swan: I’d never given much though to how I would die. But dying in place of someone I love, seems like a good way to go. I can’t bring myself to regret the decisions that brought me face to face with death. They also brought me to Edward.


Edward Cullen: You don’t know how long I’ve waited for you.


Billy Black: I’m down with the kids.
Charlie Swan: [sarcastically] Oh yeah, you’re the bomb.


Angela Weber: Maybe he’ll adopt me.


Edward Cullen: Edible art?
[Bella knocks over the apple and Edward kicks it up and catches it]
Edward Cullen: Bella.
Isabella Swan: Thanks. You know your mood swings are kinda giving me whiplash.
Edward Cullen: I only said it’d be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t wanna be.
Isabella Swan: What does that mean?
Edward Cullen: It means if you were smart, you’d stay away from me.
Isabella Swan: Okay well let’s say for argument sake that I’m not smart, would you tell me the truth?
Edward Cullen: No probably not.


Edward Cullen: Why didn’t you move with your mother and Phil?
Isabella Swan: Well, Phil’s a minor league baseball player, and uh, he travels a lot, and my mom s-stayed home with me, but I knew it made her unhappy, so I figured I’d stay with my dad for a while.
Edward Cullen: And now you’re unhappy.
Isabella Swan: …no.
Edward Cullen: I’m sorry, I’m just - I’m just trying to figure you out, you’re very difficult for me to read.
Isabella Swan: Hey did you get contacts?
Edward Cullen: No.
Isabella Swan: Your eyes were, black the last time I saw you, and now they’re like, golden brown…
Edward Cullen: Yeah I know it’s the uh, it’s the flourescents, um. Ugh.
[walks away]


Isabella Swan: Hey dad I have a date with Edward Cullen.
Charlie Swan: He’s a little old for ya, isn’t he?
Isabella Swan: No, uh, he’s a junior I’m a junior. I thought you liked the Cullens.
Charlie Swan: I thought you didn’t like any of the boys in town.
Isabella Swan: Edward doesn’t live in town, technically. He’s right outside.
Charlie Swan: He is?
Isabella Swan: Yeah he wanted to meet you, officially.
Charlie Swan: Alright,
[cocks gun]
Charlie Swan: bring him in.
Isabella Swan: Could you be nice? He is - he’s important.
[Charlie draws invisible circle around his head, as to be a halo]


Mike Newton: So, you and Cullen… I don’t like it. He looks at you like your something to eat.


Isabella Swan: Do you do this a lot?
Edward Cullen: Just the past couple of months. I like watching you sleep. I find it fascinating.


Isabella Swan: [freaking out] You can’t leave me!
Edward Cullen: Shh… Where else would I go?
[he leans in to kiss her forehead]


Isabella Swan: About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him, and I didn’t know how dominate that part might be, that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.


[notices Mike Newton dancing against a tree]
Charlie Swan: Looks like the Newton boy’s got a big smile for ya’.


[Edward enters Bella's room via her window]
Isabella Swan: [flustered] Mom, can I talk to you later?
Renee Dwyer: Come on, we gotta talk boys! Are you being safe?
[Bella quickly hangs up the phone, embarrassed]


Jessica Stanley: You guys should keep Bella company. Umm… her date bailed.
Eric Yorkie: What date?


Isabella Swan: Hey, did you get contacts?
Edward Cullen: No.
Isabella Swan: Your eyes were… black the last time I saw you. And now they’re like… golden brown.
Edward Cullen: Yeah I know. It’s the uh… it’s the fluorescents… Um…
[walks away awkwardly]


Mike Newton: Look at you, huh?… You’re ALIVE!


Edward Cullen: What’s in Jacksonville?
Isabella Swan: How did you know about that?
Edward Cullen: You didn’t answer my question.
Isabella Swan: Well, you don’t answer any of mine so… I mean, you don’t even say hi to me.
Edward Cullen: [pause] Hi.


Edward Cullen: I don’t have the strength to stay away from you anymore.
Isabella Swan: Then don’t


Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [to Rosalie, after she is tagged "out"] “Nice kitty!”


Isabella Swan: You know everybody’s staring?
Edward Cullen: Not that guy
[points]
Edward Cullen: … uh… no he just looked.
Edward Cullen: I’m breaking all the rules now anyway. Since I’m going to hell…
[puts arm around Bella]


Edward Cullen: [to Bella before going into the prom after Jacob leaves] I leave you alone for two minutes and the wolves descend.


Mike Newton: You and Cullen huh?
[bella nods]
Mike Newton: I don’t like it. He looks at you like… you’re something to eat.


Isabella Swan: How did you get in here?
Edward Cullen: The window.
Isabella Swan: Do you do that a lot?
Edward Cullen: Just the past couple of months.


Jessica Stanley: Bella! Guess who just asked me to prom.
[looks at Edward when he walks away because he was talking to bella]
Jessica Stanley: I totally thought Mike was gonna ask you, actually. Um, it’s not gonna be weird though, right?
Isabella Swan: No, no. Zero weirdness. You guys are great together.
Jessica Stanley: I know, right?


Edward Cullen: Was that as weird for you as it was for me?
Isabella Swan: I don’t know.
[looks at the graduation caps on the wall]
Isabella Swan: Graduation caps?
Edward Cullen: Yeah private joke. We matriculate a lot.


Isabella Swan: [to Edward] You’re impossibly fast. And strong. Your skin is… pale white, and ice cold. your eyes change color. and sometimes you speak like like your from a different time. you never eat or drink any thing. you don’t go into the sunlight.
Isabella Swan: How old are you?
Edward Cullen: Seventeen.
Isabella Swan: How long have you been seventeen?
Edward Cullen: …a while.
Isabella Swan: I know what you are.
Edward Cullen: Say it, out loud say it.
Isabella Swan: Vampire…
Edward Cullen: Are you afraid?
Isabella Swan: …no.


Isabella Swan: Edible art.
[kicks up apple]
Isabella Swan: Hello. Thanks. You know, your mood swings are kinda giving me whiplash.
Edward Cullen: I said that it would be better if we weren’t friends no that i didn’t want to be.
Isabella Swan: What does that mean?
Edward Cullen: It means if you were smart you would stay away from me.
Isabella Swan: Okay lets say for argument sake that i wasn’t smart would you tell me the truth?
Edward Cullen: No, probably not.
Isabella Swan: [Bella turns away slightly angry]
Edward Cullen: I’d rather hear your theories.
Isabella Swan: I have considered radioactive spiders and kryptonite.
Edward Cullen: That’s all superhero stuff right? But what if I’m not the hero? What if I am the bad guy?
Isabella Swan: You’re not. i can see what you trying to put off but i can see it’s just to keep me away from you. It’s a mask.
Edward Cullen: [Edward looks weirded out]


Isabella Swan: Badly as in… I become a meal.
[Alice comes in through the window]
Alice Cullen: Hi Bella!
[Walks up to Bella and hugs her]
Alice Cullen: Oh, you do smell good.
Edward Cullen: Alice, what are you-?
Alice Cullen: It’s okay. Bella and I are going to be great friends.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Sorry, Jasper’s our newest vegetarian. It’s still a little difficult for him.
Jasper Hale: Pleasure to meet you.
Alice Cullen: It’s okay Jasper, you won’t hurt her.
Edward Cullen: Alright, I’m going to take you on a tour of the rest of the house.
Alice Cullen: Well, I’ll see you soon.
Isabella Swan: Okay.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: I think that went well.
Esme Cullen: [to Rosalie] Clean this up! Now!


James: You’re alone… because you’re faster than the others. But not stronger…
Edward Cullen: I’m strong enough to kill you.


Edward Cullen: Uh, yeah this is my room.
Isabella Swan: …No bed?
Edward Cullen: Ah no i don’t, i don’t sleep.
Isabella Swan: Ever?
Edward Cullen: No, not at all.
Isabella Swan: Ok, hmmm, boy you have so much music, what were you listening to.
Edward Cullen: It’s Debussy.
Isabella Swan: Clair de Lune is great.
Edward Cullen: [Edward spins Isabella around and she gives him a look] What?
Isabella Swan: I can’t dance.
Edward Cullen: [laughs]
Isabella Swan: …
Edward Cullen: Hmm… Well, I could always make you.
Isabella Swan: I’m not scared of you.
Edward Cullen: [laughs] Well you really shouldn’t have said that.
Edward Cullen: [he jumps out his bedroom window and lands on a tree] You better hold on tight spidermonkey!
Edward Cullen: [he climbs up tree]
Edward Cullen: Do you trust me?
Isabella Swan: In theory.
Edward Cullen: Then close your eyes.
Edward Cullen: [Jumps to next tree and climbs to top]
Edward Cullen: [Bella gasps] What?
Isabella Swan: This isn’t real. This kind of stuff just doesn’t exist.
Edward Cullen: It does in my world.


Isabella Swan: [to Edward] Can I talk to you for a minute?
Edward Cullen: [Edward walks away for Carlisle and Rosalie cause he was talking to them and walks over to Bella] What?
Isabella Swan: [to Edward] How, how did you get over to me so fast?
Edward Cullen: I was standing right next to you Bella.
Isabella Swan: No. You were next to your car, across the lot.
Edward Cullen: No I wasn’t.
Isabella Swan: Yes you were.
Edward Cullen: Bella you hit your head. I think you’re confused.
Isabella Swan: I know what I saw.
Edward Cullen: And what exactly was that.
Isabella Swan: You- you stopped the van. You pushed it away with you hand.
Edward Cullen: Well, nobody’s going to believe you so.
Isabella Swan: I wasn’t going to tell anybody. I just need to know the truth.
Edward Cullen: Cant you just thank me and get over it.
Isabella Swan: Thank you.
Edward Cullen: You’re not going to let this go are you?
Isabella Swan: No.
Edward Cullen: Well then i hope you enjoy disappointment.


Laurent: [to Cullens] I am Laurent, and this is Victoria, and James.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: I’m Carlisle, this is my family
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [looks from side to side at family]
Laurent: So, could you use three more players?
[looks at Carlisle's face]
Laurent: Just one game.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [glances in Edward's direction] Sure, why not? A few of us were leaving, you can take there place. We’ll bat first.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [tosses baseball at Laurent]
Victoria: [catches ball in front of Laurent's face] I’m the one with the wicked curve ball.
Jasper Hale: Oh I think we can handle that.


Edward Cullen: Is it not enough to have a long and happy life with me?
Isabella Swan: Yeah, for now…


Edward Cullen: My family, were different from others of our kind we only drink animal blood, but it you, your sent its like a drug to me you, its like your my own personal brand of heroin.
Isabella Swan: Why did you hate me so much when we met.
Edward Cullen: I did, only because of wanting you so badly, i still don’t know if i can control myself.
Isabella Swan: I know you can.


Rosalie Hale: [after Edward asks her to put on Bella's coat to distract James] Why should I? What is she to me?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [Hands her the coat] Bella is with Edward. She’s a part of this family, and we protect our family. We protect our family.


Isabella Swan: Edward I said leave me alone.
Edward Cullen: Bella don’t do this please.
Isabella Swan: Its over get out.
Charlie Swan: Hey, hey, Bella whats gong on.
Isabella Swan: I just gotta get out of here I’m leaving now.
[shuts the door on charlies face]
Charlie Swan: [knocks on Bellas door] Bella.
Isabella Swan: [to Edward] What am I going to say to him I cant hurt him.
Charlie Swan: Bella whats going on.
Edward Cullen: You just have to. Ill be down in the truck.
Isabella Swan: [Bella comes out of the room]
Charlie Swan: Did he hurt you?
Isabella Swan: No.
Charlie Swan: Break up with you or something?
Isabella Swan: No, I-I broke up with him.
Charlie Swan: I thought you liked him?
Isabella Swan: Yea, that’s why - that’s why I have to leave. I don’t want this. I have to go home.
Charlie Swan: Home… Your mom is not even in Phoenix.
Isabella Swan: She’ll come home. I’ll call her from the road.
Charlie Swan: Your not going to drive home right now. You can sleep on it. If you still feel like going in the morning I’ll take you to the airport.
Isabella Swan: N-No I want to drive, it will give me more time to think. And if I get really tired I’ll pull into a motel I promise.
Charlie Swan: Look Bella, I know I’m not that much fun to be around but I can change that. We can do more stuff together.
Isabella Swan: Like what? Like watch baseball on the flat screen? Eat at the diner every night? Steak and cobbler. Dad that’s you, that’s not me.
Charlie Swan: Bella come on. I-I just got you back.
Isabella Swan: Yeah, and you know if I don’t get out now I’ll just be stuck here like mom.


Edward Cullen: Do you trust me?
Isabella Swan: In theory.


Edward Cullen: I can’t ever lose control with you.


Edward Cullen: Your scent, it’s like a drug to me. You’re like my own personal brand of heroin.


Isabella Swan: I’m here. I trust you.


Edward Cullen: What if I’m not the hero? What if I’m the bad guy?


Edward Cullen: I’m going to make it go away, Bella. I’m going to make it go away.


Edward Cullen: See? You’re dancing.


Edward Cullen: Edible art.
[kicks up apple]
Edward Cullen: Hello.
Isabella Swan: Thanks. You know, your mood swings are kinda giving me whiplash.
Edward Cullen: I said that it would be better if we weren’t friends no that I didn’t want to be.
Isabella Swan: What does that mean?
Edward Cullen: It means if you were smart you would stay away from me.
Isabella Swan: Okay lets say for argument sake that i wasn’t smart would you tell me the truth?
Edward Cullen: No, probably not.
[Bella turns away slightly angry]
Edward Cullen: I’d rather hear your theories.
Isabella Swan: I have considered radioactive spiders and kryptonite.
Edward Cullen: That’s all superhero stuff right? But what if I’m not the hero? What if I am the bad guy?
Isabella Swan: You’re not. i can see what you trying to put off but i can see it’s just to keep me away from you. It’s a mask.
[Edward looks weirded out]
Isabella Swan: Why don’t we just… hang out. A bunch of us are going to the beach come… I mean have fun.
Edward Cullen: [Edward has on his crooked smile] Which beach.
Isabella Swan: La Push.
Edward Cullen: Uh, I don’t know.
Isabella Swan: Is there something wrong with that beach?
Edward Cullen: [looks over his shoulder] Its just a little to crowded.


Isabella Swan: About three things I was absolutely positive: First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.


Isabella Swan: [Edward jumps down off the roof of Bella's truck] Could you act human? Okay, I have neighbors.
Edward Cullen: I’m gonna take you to my place tomorrow.
[Pulls dent in Bella's truck back into correct place]
Isabella Swan: Thanks… Er, wait, like with yout family?
Edward Cullen: Yeah.
Edward Cullen: W-what if they don’t like me?
Edward Cullen: So you’re worried, not because you’ll be in a house full of vampires, but because you think they won’t approve of you?
[laughs]
Isabella Swan: [unsmiling] I’m glad I amuse you.


James: [catches Bella's scent from across the field] Ah… you brought a snack.


Edward Cullen: [to Bella as they sense the trackers arriving] Put your hair down.
Rosalie Hale: [scoffing] Like that’ll work I’d smell her from across the field.


Edward Cullen: Shh… Shh… I’m here.
Isabella Swan: We can’t be apart.
Edward Cullen: Where else would I go?


[as Rosalie smash hits the baseball at the same time the thunder crashes]
Isabella Swan: [to Esme] OK, now I see why you need the thunder. But it’s gotta be a home run, right?
Esme Cullen: [shakes her head] Edward’s very fast.


Jasper Hale: What is it? What do you see?
Alice Cullen: The tracker. He just changed course.
Jasper Hale: Where will it take him Alice?
[Grabs Alice a pen and paper]
Alice Cullen: Mirrors. A room full of mirrors.
[starts to sketch never looking down at the paper]
Isabella Swan: Edward said the visions weren’t always certain…
Jasper Hale: She see the course people are on while they’re on it. If they change their minds, the vision changes.


Edward Cullen: What’s in Jacksonville
Isabella Swan: How did you know about that?
Edward Cullen: You didn’t answer my question
Isabella Swan: Well, you don’t answer any of mine so… and, you don’t even say hi to me
Edward Cullen: Hi
Isabella Swan: Are you gonna tell me how you stopped the van?
Edward Cullen: Yeah. I had an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can google it
Isabella Swan: Floridians. That what’s in Jacksonvill…
Edward Cullen: At least would you watch where you walk?
Edward Cullen: Look, I’m sorry if I’m being rude all the time. I think it’s the best way.


Edward Cullen: Shall we?
Isabella Swan: You’re serious?
Edward Cullen: Oh, why not?
Isabella Swan: [sighs] Hmm.
Edward Cullen: See your dancing.
Isabella Swan: [giggles] At prom. Edward why did you save me? You should’ve just let the venom spread. I could be like you by now.
Edward Cullen: You dont know what your saying. You don’t want this.
Isabella Swan: I want YOU. Always.
Edward Cullen: I’m not gonna end your life for you.
Isabella Swan: I’m dying, already. Every second I get closer, older.
Edward Cullen: That’s the way it’s suppose to be.
Isabella Swan: Alice said she saw me like you. I heard her.
Edward Cullen: Her visions change.
Isabella Swan: Yeah, based on what people decide. I’ve decided.
Edward Cullen: [somewhat bitterly] So that’s what you dream about, becoming a monster.
Isabella Swan: I dream about being with you, forever.
Edward Cullen: Forever?
[Bella nods]
Edward Cullen: And are you ready right now?
Isabella Swan: [hesitant] Yes.
Edward Cullen: [sighs] Is it not enough, just to have a long and happy life with me?
Isabella Swan: [after a second of thought] Yeah. For now.
Isabella Swan: [voiceover] No one will surrender tonight, but I wont give in. I know what I want.


Isabella Swan: I know what you are. You’re impossibly fast and strong. Your skin is pale white and ice cold. Your eyes change color… and sometimes you speak like, like you’re from a different time. You never eat or drink anything. You don’t go out in the sunlight. How old are you?
Edward Cullen: Seventeen.
Isabella Swan: How long have you been seventeen?
Edward Cullen: A while.
Isabella Swan: I know what you are…
Edward Cullen: Say it, out loud, say it.
Isabella Swan: Vampire.
Edward Cullen: Are you afraid?
Isabella Swan: No.


Dr. Carlisle Cullen: You’ve got to make a choice, Edward, to prevent the change from happening.
Edward Cullen: no… NO!
Alice Cullen: It’s gonna happen, Edward. I’ve seen it.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: It doesn’t have to be that way. She still has what she has.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [to Alice, about Bella's broken leg] Give me a hand… take your belt off.
[Alice takes her belt off]
Edward Cullen: Carlisle, what’s my other options?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [to Alice] tie it above my hand
[Alice ties it above his hand]
Edward Cullen: CARLISLE!
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [to Alice] go Alice, go!
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [to Edward] Try suck the venom out.
Edward Cullen: you know i won’t be able to stop!
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Then find the will… or choose. She only has minutes left.
Edward Cullen: [to Bella] I’ll make it go away, Bella. I’ll make it go away.


Charlie Swan: …your hair’s longer
Isabella Swan: Hmm? I cut it since the last time I saw you.
Charlie Swan: Oh. I guess it grew out again.


Isabella Swan: It’s like diamonds… you’re beautiful.
Edward Cullen: Beautiful? This is the skin of a killer, Bella… I’m a killer.
Isabella Swan: I don’t believe that.
Edward Cullen: That’s because you believe only the lies… the camouflage. I’m the world’s most dangerous predator, Bella. Every thing about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I would need any of that… as if you could out run me… as if you could fight me off. I’m designed to kill.
Isabella Swan: I don’t care.
Edward Cullen: I’ve killed people before.
Isabella Swan: It does not matter.
Edward Cullen: I wanted to kill you at first. I’ve never wanted a human’s blood so much, before.
Isabella Swan: I trust you.
Edward Cullen: Don’t.


Esme Cullen: [wraps her arm around Bella's shoulders] Bella, I’m glad you’re here. We need an umpire.
Emmett Cullen: [walking past, tossing a ball in his hands] She thinks we cheat.
Esme Cullen: I know you cheat.


Isabella Swan: So what are ‘Cold Ones’?
Jacob Black: It’s just a story, Bella.


Edward Cullen: What?
Isabella Swan: I can’t dance
Edward Cullen: Well, I could always make you
Isabella Swan: I’m not scared of you
Edward Cullen: You really shouldn’t have said that.

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Twilight

twilight

The Story Behind Twilight

I get a ton of questions about how I came up with the story of Twilight and how I got it published. I may be killing my FAQ page by doing this, but here is the whole story:

(Warning: there are Twilight spoilers contained in the following; if you don’t want to ruin the suspense, stop reading…..now. Warning #2: As you might have guessed from the length of my book, I can’t tell a short story—this is going to take a while. You have been warned.)

The Writing: I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003. Up to this point, I had not written anything besides a few chapters (of other stories) that I never got very far on, and nothing at all since the birth of my first son, six years earlier.

I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately. For what is essentially a transcript of my dream, please see Chapter 13 (”Confessions”) of the book.

Though I had a million things to do (i.e. making breakfast for hungry children, dressing and changing the diapers of said children, finding the swimsuits that no one ever puts away in the right place, etc.), I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. I was so intrigued by the nameless couple’s story that I hated the idea of forgetting it; it was the kind of dream that makes you want to call your friend and bore her with a detailed description. (Also, the vampire was just so darned good-looking, that I didn’t want to lose the mental image.) Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn’t done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering. But I didn’t want to lose the dream, so I typed out as much as I could remember, calling the characters “he” and “she.”

From that point on, not one day passed that I did not write something. On bad days, I would only type out a page or two; on good days, I would finish a chapter and then some. I mostly wrote at night, after the kids were asleep so that I could concentrate for longer than five minutes without being interrupted. I started from the scene in the meadow and wrote through to the end. Then I went back to the beginning and wrote until the pieces matched up. I drove the “golden spike” that connected them in late August, three months later.

It took me a while to find names for my anonymous duo. For my vampire (who I was in love with from day one) I decided to use a name that had once been considered romantic, but had fallen out of popularity for decades. Charlotte Bronte’s Mr. Rochester and Jane Austen’s Mr. Ferrars were the characters that led me to the name Edward. I tried it on for size, and found that it fit well. My female lead was harder. Nothing I named her seemed just right. After spending so much time with her, I loved her like a daughter, and no name was good enough. Finally, inspired by that love, I gave her the name I was saving for my daughter, who had never shown up and was unlikely to put in an appearance at this point: Isabella. Huzzah! Edward and Bella were named. For the rest of the characters, I did a lot of searching in old census records, looking for popular names in the times that they’d been born. Some trivia: Rosalie was originally “Carol” and Jasper was first “Ronald.” I like the new names much better, but every now and then I will slip up and type Carol or Ron by accident. It really confuses the people who read my rough drafts.

For my setting, I knew I needed someplace ridiculously rainy. I turned to Google, as I do for all my research needs, and looked for the place with the most rainfall in the U.S. This turned out to be the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. I pulled up maps of the area and studied them, looking for something small, out of the way, surrounded by forest… And there, right where I wanted it to be, was a tiny town called “Forks.” It couldn’t have been more perfect if I had named it myself. I did a Google image search on the area, and if the name hadn’t sold me, the gorgeous photographs would have done the trick. (Images like these of the Hoh Rainforest (a short drive from Forks). Also see forks-web.com ). In researching Forks, I discovered the La Push Reservation, home to the Quileute Tribe. The Quileute story is fascinating, and a few fictional members of the tribe quickly became intrinsic to my story.

All this time, Bella and Edward were, quite literally, voices in my head. They simply wouldn’t shut up. I’d stay up as late as I could stand trying to get all the stuff in my mind typed out, and then crawl, exhausted, into bed (my baby still wasn’t sleeping through the night, yet) only to have another conversation start in my head. I hated to lose anything by forgetting, so I’d get up and head back down to the computer. Eventually, I got a pen and notebook for beside my bed to jot notes down so I could get some freakin’ sleep. It was always an exciting challenge in the morning to try to decipher the stuff I’d scrawled across the page in the dark.

During the day, I couldn’t stay away from the computer, either. When I was stuck at swim lessons, out in 115 degrees of Phoenix sunshine, I would plot and scheme and come home with so much new stuff that I couldn’t type fast enough. It was your typical Arizona summer, hot, sunny, hot, and hot, but when I think back to those three months, I remember rain and cool green things, like I really spent the summer in the Olympic Rainforest.

When I’d finished the body of the novel, I started writing epilogues…lots of epilogues. This eventually clued me in to the fact that I wasn’t ready to let go of my characters, and I started working on the sequel. Meanwhile, I continued to edit Twilight in a very obsessive-compulsive way.

My older sister, Emily, was the only one who really knew what I was up to. In June, I’d started sending her chapters as I finished them, and she soon became my cheerleading section. She was always checking in to see if I had something new for her. It was Emily who first suggested, after I’d finished, that I should try to get Twilight published. I was so stunned by the fact that I’d actually finished a whole, entire book, that I decided to look into it.

Getting Published: To put it mildly, I was naive about publishing. I thought it worked like this: you printed a copy of your novel, wrapped it up in brown paper, and sent it off to a publishing house. Ho ho ho, that’s a good one. I started googling (naturally) and began to discover that this was not the way it is done. (Movies lie to us! Why?! A side note: you will not be able to enjoy the new Steve Martin version of Cheaper by the Dozen when you know how insanely impossible the publishing scenario it contains is.) The whole set up with query letters, literary agents, simultaneous submissions vs. exclusive submissions, synopsizes, etc., was extremely intimidating, and I almost quit there. It certainly wasn’t belief in my fabulous talent that made me push forward; I think it was just that I loved my characters so much, and they were so real to me, that I wanted other people to know them, too.

I subscribed to WritersMarket.com and compiled a list of small publishers that accepted unsolicited submissions and a few literary agencies. It was around this time that my little sister, Heidi, mentioned Janet Evanovich’s website to me. In her Q and A for writers section, Janet E. mentioned Writers House, among a few others, as “the real thing” in the world of literary agencies. Writers House went on my wish list as the most desirable and also least likely.

I sent out around fifteen queries (and I still get residual butterflies in my stomach when I drive by the mailbox I sent the letters from—mailing them was terrifying.). I will state, for the record, that my queries truly sucked, and I don’t blame anyone who sent me a rejection (I did get seven or eight of those. I still have them all, too). The only rejection that really hurt was from a small agent who actually read the first chapter before she dropped the axe on me. The meanest rejection I got came after Little, Brown had picked me up for a three-book deal, so it didn’t bother me at all. I’ll admit that I considered sending back a copy of that rejection stapled to the write-up my deal got in Publisher’s Weekly, but I took the higher road.

My big break came in the form of an assistant at Writers House named Genevieve. I didn’t find out until much later just how lucky I was; it turns out that Gen didn’t know that 130,000 words is a whole heck of a lot of words. If she’d known that 130K words would equal 500 pages, she probably wouldn’t have asked to see it. But she didn’t know (picture me wiping the sweat from my brow), and she did ask for the first three chapters. I was thrilled to get a positive response, but a little worried because I felt the beginning of the book wasn’t the strongest part. I mailed off those three chapters and got a letter back a few weeks later (I could barely get it open, my hands were so weak with fear). It was a very nice letter. She’d gone back with a pen and twice underlined the part where she’d typed how much she enjoyed the first three chapters (I still have that letter, of course), and she asked for the whole manuscript. That was the exact moment when I realized that I might actually see Twilight in print, and really one of the happiest points in my whole life. I did a lot of screaming.

About a month after I sent in the manuscript, I got a call from Jodi Reamer, an honest to goodness literary agent, who wanted to represent my book. I tried really hard to sound like a professional and a grownup during that conversation, but I’m not sure if I fooled her. Again, my luck was tremendous (and I don’t usually have good luck—I’ve never won anything in my life, and no one ever catches a fish when I’m in the boat) because Jodi is the uber-agent. I couldn’t have ended up in better hands. She’s part lawyer, part ninja (she’s working on earning her black belt right now, no kidding), a pretty amazing editor in her own right, and a great friend.

Jodi and I worked for two weeks on getting Twilight into shape before sending it to editors. The first thing we worked on was the title, which started out as Forks (and I still have a teeny soft spot for that name). Then we polished up a few rough spots, and Jodi sent it out to nine different publishing houses. This really messed with my ability to sleep, but luckily I wasn’t in suspense for long.

Megan Tingley, of Megan Tingley Books, of Little, Brown and Company, read Twilight on a cross-country flight and came back to Jodi the day after the Thanksgiving weekend with a preemptive deal so huge that I honestly thought Jodi was pulling my leg—especially the part where she turned the offer down and asked for more. The upshot was that, by the end of the day, I was trying to process the information that not only was my book going to be published by one of the biggest young adult publishers in the country, but that they were going to pay me for it. For a very long time, I was convinced it was a really cruel practical joke, but I couldn’t imagine who would go to these wild extremes to play a hoax on such an insignificant little hausfrau.

And that’s how, in the course of six months, Twilight was dreamed, written, and accepted for publication.

Things keep getting crazier, what with the movie deal and all the pre-publication attention that Twilight continues to receive. Though I’ve gotten impatient from time to time, I’m glad I’ve had the last two years to try to come to terms with the situation. I’m greatly looking forward to finally having Twilight on the shelves, and more than a little frightened, too. Overall, it’s been a true labor of love, love for Edward and Bella and all the rest of my imaginary friends, and I’m thrilled that other people get to meet them now.

 

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

newmoon“Shoot,” I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.

It all happened very quickly then.

Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table…

I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. I felt the searing, stinging pain that ran from my wrist to the crease inside my elbow.

Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm—into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

****

For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning…

Legions of readers entranced by the New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for the continuing story of star-crossed lovers, Bella and Edward. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

 

Eclipse

eclipse“BELLA?”

Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.

This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine—like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.

* * *

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob—knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

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Breaking Dawn

Book Four in the Twilight Series

July 7, 2008

(This is from Stephenie, so don’t just skip over it thinking that it is another boring message from the webmaster.)

It’s almost August, and I’m counting down to the release of Breaking Dawn just as anxiously as you are! I can’t wait to finally be able to discuss everything that happens in Breaking Dawn with you. I want to give a heads up to everyone going to the Breaking Dawn Concert Series events in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle: I am going to talk about it all, so bring earplugs if you haven’t finished reading Breaking Dawn by then! (If you’re going to the first event in New York, it will be spoiler free.)

Speaking of spoilers, I want to ask you guys for a favor. As we saw with Eclipse (not to mention that last Harry Potter book), there is always the potential for copies of the book to be leaked early. My publisher is doing everything they can to prevent this, but there is only so much that can be done. This is the favor: if someone, somewhere, somehow, gets a copy early, I’m asking you to please not post any spoilers on the internet. And if you see something, please don’t spread it around. Breaking Dawn was meant to be experienced in a certain way, and I would hate for someone to get that experience ruined by seeing something online they didn’t want to see. My fans have been super cool about this in the past—last year in particular you guys went above and beyond to protect Eclipse until the release date—and I hope that we’ll have the same positive experience this year.

If somebody does post a spoiler (and remember there will be a lot of hoaxes out there—do not believe everything you read: Bella gets eaten by a polar bear, anyone?), I’d love your help in getting them taken down. My publisher has set up a special e-mail account, bdcopyrightviolation@hbgusa.com, for fans to alert us to spoilers that appear online. PLEASE only send links to spoilers. E-mails about events, contacting me, etc. will not be returned.

Another thing you may notice close to the release of Breaking Dawn is that the message boards on several fansites will be taken down. They are doing this as a favor to me because I want to protect you all from stumbling upon something that could ruin the book for you. There will be plenty of time to discuss all the details of the book after August 2nd.

Finally, I don’t think I could ever thank all of you enough for being so devoted to this series. You’ve proved over and over again that you are the best fans in the world. I hope that together we can make sure everybody gets to experience Breaking Dawn the way it was intended — on August 2nd [or the 4th if you live outside North America].

We’re almost there!

–Steph

Official Press Release: BREAKING DAWN WILL RELEASE ON AUGUST 2, 2008

(Haven’t reserved your copy yet? Click here to pre-order Breaking Dawn.)

2008 MAJOR YEAR FOR MEYER WITH DEBUT OF ADULT NOVEL AND TWILIGHT MOVIE

February 7, 2008 (New York, NY) — The wait is over. At 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, August 2, 2008, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, will release the most anticipated novel of the year — Breaking Dawn, it was announced today by Megan Tingley, the division’s Senior Vice President and Publisher. The fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer’s #1 international bestselling Twilight Saga will be available in a hardcover edition for $22.99/$23.99 Can.

The countdown to Breaking Dawn will begin on Saturday, May 31, 2008 with the publication of the Eclipse Special Edition which coincides with the annual BookExpo America show, the book publishing industry’s largest convention. This deluxe hardcover version of the third book in the series not only includes the cover art for Breaking Dawn, but also the first chapter—both of which will be revealed to the public for the first time. The trade paperback of New Moon, the second book in the Twilight Saga, will also be released on Saturday, May 31, 2008.

“Stephenie Meyer has written a dazzling grand finale to an epic love story,” commented Tingley. “And with the extraordinary excitement surrounding the publication of Breaking Dawn, I’m thrilled that legions of new readers will now discover the saga that has already captivated millions around the world.”

Meyer’s fans will have plenty to keep them occupied until the release of the Eclipse Special Edition and Breaking Dawn. On May 6, 2008, Little, Brown and Company will release The Host, Meyer’s highly-anticipated debut novel for adults. Little, Brown and Company has announced a 500,000 copy first-printing and Meyer will embark on a 10-city author tour for The Host.

“We are thrilled to be publishing two novels from this extraordinary talent in 2008,” said David Young, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hachette Book Group USA. “Stephenie Meyer has already achieved so much in her young career and this year further establishes her as a major force in the publishing industry. Given her remarkable talent and her passionate, ever-growing fan base, there is no limit to Stephenie Meyer’s success.”

Meyer’s amazing year will be capped off by a major motion picture event. Summit Entertainment will bring Twilight to the big screen, directed by Catherine Hardwicke (”Thirteen,” “Lords of Dogtown”) and starring Kristen Stewart (”Into The Wild”) and Robert Pattinson (”Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”). It will be released nationwide on December 12, 2008.

In just two years, Stephenie Meyer has become a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Twilight was one of 2005’s most talked about novels and translation rights have been sold in 33 countries. The sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006, and spent over 30 weeks at the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list. Eclipse, the latest book in the series released on August 7, 2007, catapulted to the #1 slot on bestseller lists nationwide after selling 150,000 copies its first day on-sale. There are over 5.5 million copies of the Twilight Saga in-print worldwide.

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is a division of Hachette Book Group USA, a leading trade publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the second largest publisher in the world. Hachette Book Group’s product lines include adult, illustrated, religious, children’s and audio books under the Little, Brown and Company, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Grand Central Publishing, FaithWords, Center Street, Orbit, Yen Press and Hachette Book Group Digital Media imprints. For more information, visit www.hbgusa.com.

 

 

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