Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.

You seem more...optimistic than usual," I observed. "I haven't seen you like this before.""Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in pictures, and experiencing it?

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb." - Edward Cullen, Twilight

They wouldn't let me play; only Alice would play games with me anymore.

Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker

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

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.

Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on.