Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series has captivated readers since it was first published in 2005. The story of Bella Swan and her love for the vampire Edward Cullen has spawned five movies, a generation of “Twihards,” and countless quotes that have become famous in their own right. Here, we will list down the top 10 Best Twilight quotes!
Now that we’re talking about Twilight, the books, and the five films that followed suit, we need to address the elephant in the room. This vampire novel isn’t meant to be filled with hilarity, funniness, or taken lightly. The book has a dark undertone, and while girls all over the place are still raving about it, that’s a topic for another discussion. Here, let’s take a look at the top 10 quotes from Twilight.
Top 10 Twilight Quotes
Many of these quotes you will find all over memes, t-shirts, P.O.P. material, buttons, and stickers, but what do they really mean? Can anyone tell past the hype? Can’t we see the drama, overwroughtness, and angst behind these lines? Or is it just all cool because…vampires and werewolves, and look how handsome and beautiful Edward and Bella look? Anyway, here are some quotes and a penny for your thoughts.
10. “You better hold on tight, spider monkey. I wouldn’t want you to fall.” — Edward Cullen
Let’s break this thing down a bit. Suppose you’re trying to pick up and impress a cute chick, and you’re about to show off some talent. Add to that the fact that nature gave you good looks —so you have that going for you. Not many around the world have that one. Now that you’re all nice and cozy up, the moment you’re about to drop your line and show off, you tell the girl, “spider monkey”. **Huge disco scratch sound** Yeah, that totally would kill the vibe for any girl.
Let’s face it, Stephanie Meyer is a woman and wrote Cullen to be a smug cute vampire. But she could have given him a little more suave lines in order to impress Bella. After all, the poor girl was all over the dude for his looks. Why not complement that with some smooth talk instead of a crappy line like that one before going off to a flight? But hell…it’s her book and her literary skills.
9. “You’re like my own personal brand of heroin” — Bella
If anyone ever tells you this, go away. And never come back! You’re hurting that person in indescribable ways. The milk of the poppy and the resulting trafficking of its alkaloid goes back centuries. Wars have been fought over it, and many have succumbed to its potent numbing effects. Comparing a loved one to such a destructive drug means a couple of things: Either a knack for certain illegal endovenous injected substances and the utterly distasteful lifestyle that it entails, or romanticizing the tragedy that affects millions of people with irreparable harm.
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8. “I’m the world’s most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I need any of that! As if you could outrun me!” — Edward Cullen
I think it’s safe to say to all the boys and girls out there that predators are bad! Like real bad. These people will hurt you and send you into physical and psychotherapy for years if you let them into your life. They will play all nice and softy before they show their fangs, and when they do, then it’s just too late. Remember, no matter how cool Twilight sounds, it’s a fictional book. And sometimes, people get too immersed in it and fail to see the difference between reality and fiction. And in reality, people that act like this guy Edward often go to jail.
7. “But I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.” — Edward Cullen
This is actually a cute quote. I think Steph Meyer took that old adage of “it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” and gave it a spin with the dark undertones of the vampire world to make it a little more “Edward Cullen-like” sounding, and the result is this quote.
6. “I can’t be with you and not be happy, so it seems like the logical choice to me.” — Bella Swan
One of the cool things about choosing a life partner is learning to live in happiness with that significant other. In the case of Bella Swan, her significant other was a weirdo emo-looking 100-year-old vampire with a knack for abusive relationships. But hey! Who are we to judge in these times and ages? She was happy, though.
5. “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…” — Edward Cullen
Right at the middle of our countdown, we’re done with the nasty quotes, and we will focus on the romance because, in the book, there are indeed some good romantic quotes that are —after all— the hook indeed of this best-selling series turned into a movie saga. In this one, Edward realizes that his predatory ways are bad and sees in Bella a cure for his evil. Or not. You be the judge.
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4. “I’m unconditionally and irrevocably in love with you.” — Edward Cullen
I guess that Edward saying “unconditionally and irrevocably” is a way of putting a definitive seal on his past dealings of an utterly predatory past. Of nasty century-old shenanigans of destroying lives, blood-sucking adventures, and crushing young girls’ hearts. Hey! They say men mature later in life than their female counterparts. Let’s just say in the case of Edward Cullen that blossoming took him quite some time.
3. “I promise to love you every moment of forever.” — Edward Cullen
Let’s break apart this quote for the sake of logic. “every moment of forever” is a long time. And it doesn’t leave time for yourself. In order to logically love your significant other, you must learn to love yourself first. As Ayn Rand once put it in “The Virtue of Selfishness” —a book that Edward Cullen seems to take to a T, considering his peculiar behavior all over the series”—the most important part of “I love you” is the “I” part.
Consider this, can Bella and Edward truly, madly, and deeply live together forever in love after all they’ve been through without a fight? I seriously doubt so. But the book is a fantasy, and it is not constrained by these kinds of things. Still, literary analysis of characters is always a passion that will go on forever. Think about what your grandsons will think about when they pick up a copy of this book and wonder what all the fuss was about.
2. “As long as we’re together, nothing bad can happen.” — Bella Swan
But bad things happened when Bella and Edward were together. For starters, the world was at war with vampires and werewolves running amok, trying to kill each other for supremacy. For another, Bella was emotionally traumatized both by the man whom she claimed to love and the other love interest Stephanie Meyer wrote for her in the book series. She had a child that was forever traumatized by having to see a series of events that no child was supposed to see, and in the end, it was all cool? Seem like “bad” is a broad concept for Bella.
1. “You’re my only reason for living. Without you, there’s no point.” — Bella Swan
Bella’s blinded by love here. And also by reason. Love can make you do silly things, for sure. Men can go ahead and wage aggressive wars of attrition with their kith and kin over a woman. Women can turn a blind eye to everybody around them if they set their eyes on a man. In the end, the lovely things that romance entails are all contained in the books —even if Stephanie Meyer sometimes creates flawed narratives with flawed characters.
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