“For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours … all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet.”

—  Stephenie Meyer

Edward Cullen to Bella Swan, p. 304
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)

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