“She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.”

“Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”

“Strength is Life, Weakness is death.”

“Death in the wood,—
In the death-pale lips apart;
Death in a whiteness that curdled the blood,
Now black to the very heart:
The wonder by her was formed
Who stands supreme in power;
To show that life by the spirit comes
She gave us a soulless flower!”

“But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.”

“Flowers she would pick like guitar strings, for a real good whiff of how how life behind par seems.”

“A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.”

“Facts are like kryptonite to teenagers.”

“she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.”

“She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.”