“It was a colossal tribute to his face that it kept my eyes away from his body.” Twilight, Ch 10
Falling out of the chair with that one. Fantastic. Perhaps Mrs. Meyers writing style is a little underdeveloped, but it was silly enough to lighten the mood of the plunge into unparalleled love-frenzy. She only just keeps her characters from utterly dissolving at the sight of one another with the teenaged voice of the narrator/heroine. You just can’t take it too seriously, which is why it was fun.
“I was like a lost moon—my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation—that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity “ New Moon, Ch 9
New Moon and Eclipse both got heavy handed with the descent into Love Hell, though I did like this quote. I am a sucker for metaphors and this one caught my attention. My biggest annoyance with these two books (and I wished that they had been streamlined into one book for my sanity’s sake) was definitely the love-triangle. I was forever frustrated with Bella for not getting the simple concept that you cannot have a permanent, intimate relationship with one man and be “best friends” with another man. ESPECIALLY when you know that your “best friend” is in love with you. Sorry. Does not work. At all.
“Edward and Alice playing chess was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. They’d sat there nearly motionless, staring at the board, while Alice foresaw the moves he would make and he picked the moves she would make out of her head; I think they’d each moved two pawns when Alice suddenly flicked her king over and surrendered.” Eclipse, Ch 2
This is why these books are fun. Everyone wants to have super powers, but it’s the little things that you don’t think about that make writing about and reading fantasy so enjoyable. My regret for Breaking Dawn is that Bella did not ever make use of that extra-fine Ducati motorcycle that Edward bought. (Stephenie Meyer posted a link from her great website. Check it out http://www.superbike.co.uk/imageBank/d/ducati_848_large_wallpaper.jpg ) If I was nearly indestructible that would be one of the first things that I would want to do—closest thing to flying!
“’Thou shalt not kill’ is commonly accepted by most major belief systems. And I’ve killed a lot of people, Bella.”
“Only the bad ones.” Eclipse, Ch 20.
Need I say more?
Cool quotes. Some of my favorites are the silliest. Emmett: Did you fall down again Bella? Bella: No, I punched a werewolf in the face. (Eclipse)
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of memorable quotes and scenes from those books, but I agree with you about the triangle. Not a fan of Jacob. In Bella's defense, she's a silly little teenager who thought that Edward would be gone forever.
I'm very interested to see how "New Moon" & "Eclipse" look on screen.
Yeah, the movie is creating quite the buzz. I have not yet watched the first movie--it is hard to disassociate my visual imagination from the movie once I have seen it, so I don't know if I want my own version messed up by someone elses.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say that I am not a fan of Jacob--he has a fun character to be sure--but I just get jaded by the inconsistency of thought in Bella (mostly in Eclipse). Hear she is, ready to make an eternal change and leave behind her family and friends so that she can be with Edward forever, and then at the same time she is not willing to give up her other boyfriend for him.