Alice: No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot.
Alice: Go to you happy place, Bella. It won't take long.
—Alice: You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails
—
Bella: Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You’re not taking him to a strip club, are you?
Jasper: Relax. We Cullen's have our own version. Just
a few mountain lions, a couple of grizzly bears. Pretty much an
ordinary night out.
Bella: Thanks, Jasper.
He winked and dropped from sight.
—
Alice: I've only allotted so much time to make you stunning, Bella - you might have taken better care of my raw material.
—
Bella: Since when is the bride not allowed to see the decorations?
Alice: Since she put me in charge.
—
Alice: No one will dare to call you plain when I’m through with you.
Bella: Only because their afraid you'll suck their blood.
—
Renee: Alice wouldn’t let us do anything else. Every time we tried, she all but ripped our throats out.- pg 46
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Bella: Alice is an unstoppable force of nature
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Alice: I’ll tell her where you’re taking her, Edward. So help me, I will.
Edward: You’re awfully small to be so hugely irritating.
—
Alice was a tiny little thing. ‘Bout the size of one of my arms.
She looked even smaller now, sort of hunched in on herself. Her small
face was pinched.
Jacob: Vampires get headaches?
Alice: Not the normal ones.
I snorted. Normal vampires.
Jacob: So how come you’re never with Bella anymore? Thought you two were like this.
I twisted two of
my fingers together.
Alice: Like I said headache.
Jacob: Bella’s giving you a headache?
Alice: Yes.
—
Alice: You don’t mind if I sit here by you, do you?
Jacob: Guess not. Stinks anyway.
Alice: Thanks. This is the best thing for it, I guess, since I can’t take aspirin.
—
Seth: Alice wants you, too. She says she’s tired of hanging out in the attic like the vampire bat in the belfry.
—
Alice: Yes, thanks so much for bringing it up. You would be
mortified, too, if you realized that you were handcuffed by your own
nature. I see vampires best, because I am one; I see humans okay,
because I was one. But I can’t see these odd half-breeds at all because
they’re nothing I’ve experienced. Bah!
—
Edward: She’s really going to be fine,
Alice: Of course she is.
Edward: You weren’t so sanguine two days ago.
Alice: I couldn’t see right two days ago. But now that she’s free of all the blind spots, it’s a piece of cake.
Edward: Could you concentrate for me? On the clock —give me an estimate.
Alice: So impatient. Fine. Give me a sec —
Edward: Thank you, Alice.
Alice: She’s going to be dazzling.
Edward: She always has been.
Alice: You know what I mean. Look at her.
—
Alice was peeking around Jasper’s elbow with a huge grin on her
face; the light sparkled off her teeth, another eight-color rainbow.
—
Through my sightless human eyes, the scars left from his former life with the newborn armies in the South had been mostly invisible. Only with a bright light to throw their slightly raised shapes into definition could I even make out their existence.
Now that I could see, the scars were Jasper’s most dominant feature. It was hard to take my eyes off his ravaged neck and jaw —hard to believe that even a vampire could have survived so many sets of teeth ripping into his throat.
Instinctively, I tensed to defend myself. Any vampire who saw Jasper would have had the same reaction. The scars were like a lighted billboard. Dangerous, they screamed. How many vampires had tried to kill Jasper? Hundreds? Thousands? The same number that had died in the attempt
Jasper both saw and felt my assessment, my caution, and he smiled wryly.
—
Alice: You promised I could be there the first time! What if you two run past something reflective?
Bella: What is she talking about?
Alice: Edward gave me grief for not getting you to a mirror before the wedding. I’m not going to be chewed out again.
Edward: Chewed out?
Alice: Maybe I’m overstating things.
Edward: And maybe this has solely to do with your own voyeuristic gratification.
—
Edward: Jasper wonders how you’re doing it.
Bella: Doing it?
Jasper: Controlling your emotions. I’ve never seen a newborn do
that —stop an emotion in its tracks that way. You were upset, but when
you saw our concern, you reined it in, regained power over yourself. I
was prepared to help, but you didn’t need it.
—
Alice: I know —I’ll play you for it, Rock, paper, scissors.
Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed.
Edward: Why you don’t you just tell me who wins?
Alice: I do. Excellent.
—
My first illogical thought was that Alice was playing some joke on us. Because there was no way that Alice could have dropped the vase by accident. I could have darted across the room to catch the vase in plenty of time myself, if I hadn't assumed she would get it. And how would it fall through her fingers in the first place? Her perfectly sure fingers... I had never seen a vampire drop anything by accident. Ever.
—
“We can’t win,” Jasper growled. I could imagine how his face would
look, how his body would curve protectively over Alice’s.
—
Bella: When we were on the plane to Italy, on our way to rescue you… she lied to Jasper so that he wouldn’t come after us. She knew that if he faced the Volturi, he would die. She was willing to die herself rather than put him in danger. Willing for me to die, too. Willing for you to die. - pg 564
—
Edward: For Alice. It's the only thing I can give her now for the last fifty years.
—
So this man knew Jasper, not Alice. Knew him, and seemed afraid of him, too.
—
Edward: Why don’t you join us, Alice?
Esme: Alice?
Alice!
Alice, Alice, Alice!
“Alice!” “Alice!” other voices murmured around me.
Aro: Alice
Relief and violent joy surged through me. It took all my will to keep the shield where it was.
—
Then Alice danced into the clearing from the southwest, and I felt like the bliss of seeing her face again might knock me off my feet. Jasper was only inches behind her, his sharp eyes fierce.
—
Alice: Just get it off your chest, Bella.
Bella: How could you do that to me, Alice?
Alice: It was necessary.
—
Bella: Sorry! I know it was rough for you, too. It’s just that… well, I missed you like crazy, Alice. Don’t do that to me again.
Alice: I missed you, too, Bella. So forgive me, and try to be satisfied with being the superhero of the day.
—
Bella: Oh, Jasper?
Jasper: Yes, Bella?
Bella: I’m curious —why is J. Jenks scared stiff by just the sound of your name?
Jasper: It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working
relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.