“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.”

—  Stephenie Meyer

Bella Swan, p. 201
Twilight series, New Moon (2006)

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