"Can't tell you what I don't know. He's out."
Did they guess what I was up to? Was Sam taking preemptive action against me?
"Do you know if he's with Jacob?" I asked anxiously. There hadn't been enough time for that, had there? Did they guess what I was up to? Was Sam taking preemptive action against me?
"Don't think so," the old man said reluctantly. "He goes off on his own now."
Relief rushed through me. "Okay, I guess I'll just come back later."
The only answer I got was a sour look as he slammed the door. I yanked my foot out of the way, barely avoiding some broken toes.
Well, that was welcoming.
I decided I would drive around and hope to find Quil walking along the road, as I had yesterday. I'd much rather talk to him without his grandfather present.
"NARCOTICS"
This outtake shows another approach to the scene at the end of New Moon's chapter 2.
I collapsed back onto my pillow, gasping, my head spinning. My arm didn't hurt anymore, but I didn't know whether that was due to the painkillers or the kiss. Something tugged at my memory, elusive, on the edges....
"Sorry," he said, and he was breathless, too. "That was out of line."
To my own surprise, I giggled. "You're funny," I mumbled and giggled again.
He frowned at me in the darkness. He looked so serious. It was hysterical.
I covered my mouth to muffle the laughter so Charlie wouldn't hear.
"Bella, have you ever had Percocet before?"
"I don't think so." I giggled. "Why?"
He rolled his eyes, and I couldn't stop laughing.
"How's your arm?"
"I can't feel it. Is it still there?"
He sighed as I giggled on. "Try to sleep, Bella."
"No, I want you to kiss me again."
"You're overestimating my self-control."
"You're overestimating my self-control."
I snickered. "Which is bothering you more, my blood or my body?" My question made me laugh.
"It's a tie." He grinned in spite of himself. "I've never seen you high. You're very entertaining."
"I'm not high." I tried to choke back the giggles to prove it.
"Sleep it off," he suggested.
I realized that I was making a fool of myself, which wasn't uncommon, but it was still embarrassing, so I tried to follow his advice. I put my head on his shoulder again and closed my eyes. Every now and then another giggle would escape. But that became more infrequent as the drugs lulled me toward unconsciousness.
*
I felt absolutely hideous in the morning. My arm burned and my head ached. Edward said I had a hangover, and recommended Tylenol rather than the Percocet before he kissed my forehead casually and ducked out my window.
It didn't help my outlook that his face was smooth and remote. I was so afraid of the conclusions he might have come to during the night while he watched me sleep. The anxiety seemed to ratchet up the intensity of the pounding in my head.
I took a double dose of Tylenol and threw the little bottle of Percocet into the bathroom trash.
Q. WHAT DO THE COVERS OF THE BOOKS REPRESENT?
A. The apple on the cover of Twilight represents the knowledge of good and evil. Eve ate this forbidden fruit in Genesis, and Twilight has an epigraph from this book of the Bible: "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." The question inherent in the apple is "Do you want to know?" It asks if you are going to bite in and discover the frightening possibilities around you or refuse and stay safe in the comfortable world you know.
Unlike the other covers, Stephenie was not involved in choosing the cover for New Moon. The author originally proposed a clock image, as time is such a key theme in the book. But ultimately the team that chose the tulip focused on the theme of loss. The image of the flower losing its petal was chosen to reflect that. They felt the fallen petal could also be interpreted to represent the drop of blood from Bella's paper cut in the first chapter.
The not-quite-broken ribbon on the cover of Eclipse is a metaphor for Bella trying to leave her human life behind her, but being unable to make a clean break. There are some threads she is unable to cut--she can't completely divorce herself from her past.
The two chess pieces on the cover of Breaking Dawn both represent Bella. They show her moving from the least significant player, the pawn, at the beginning of the Saga to the most important player, the queen, at the end of the series. The chessboard also hints at Breaking Dawn's resolution, where the battle with the Volturi is one of wits and strategy, not physical violence.
The image on The Official Guide cover represents all the "pieces of the puzzle" of the Twilight Saga coming together in one place.
The hourglass on the cover of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella symbolizes the theme of time and represents the fact that it is running out for Bree and her fellow newborns.
Q. WHEN EDWARD ATE THE PIZZA IN TWILIGHT, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BIT OF FOOD HE SWALLOWED?
A. Vampires cannot digest food, but they sometimes find themselves in a situation where eating human food is unavoidable to keep up a human facade. The food that they consume sits in their stomach until they can find a private place to cough it up.
Q. WAS EDWARD SECRETLY WATCHING BELLA IN TWILIGHT WHILE SHE WAS READING JANE AUSTEN?
A. Yes. In secret, Edward used to pay very close attention to everything Bella did before they began their relationship.
Q. WHY WAS BELLA'S WINDOW SO EASY TO OPEN IN TWILIGHT?
A. The window was stuck and made a groaning sound the first time Edward opened it. While Bella didn't wake up, Edward promised himself he'd bring some oil for the window the next time, which he did.
Q. WHAT CAUSES EDWARD TO WARN BELLA ABOUT BEING ALONE IN THE WOODS IN TWILIGHT?
A. There was no specific threat on Edward's mind when he warned Bella to stay out of the woods. (Peter and Charlotte had been visiting Jasper, but they didn't hunt in Forks, and they were already gone when Edward cautioned Bella.) It was more of a general sense of Bella's vulnerability that motivated the warning. He had tracked her scent in the woods after he came back from his hunting trip in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, and found himself unnerved by the image of her alone and unprotected. After all, Bella regularly attracted catastrophes.
Q. HOW WAS EDWARD ABLE TO DRINK BELLA'S BLOOD AT THE END OF TWILIGHT AND NOT INFECT HER WITH MORE VENOM?
A. Edward drank with his lips puckered, as if using a straw, and never touched her with his "saliva."
Q. IF VAMPIRES ARE SOLID LIKE GRANITE, DOESN'T THAT MEAN THEY MUST WEIGH A LOT?
A. It is possible for things to be really durable, but not weigh a tremendous amount. Polymers are a good example of this. Vampires do, however, weigh more than humans of the same size.
Q. CAN ANIMALS BE TURNED INTO VAMPIRES?
A. No, only humans can be turned into vampires. Venom is deadly to animals.
Q. HOW IS EDWARD ABLE TO BE AROUND BELLA WHEN SHE HAS HER MONTHLY CYCLE?
A. Edward is aware of what's going on physiologically with Bella, but he is too much of a gentleman to ever say anything about it, and Bella would be too embarrassed to ask if he noticed or was bothered by it. The blood from a woman's period isn't the same as a cut; it's not freshly oxygenated, not flowing from the heart.
Q. WHY DO ALICE'S AND JASPER'S SUPERNATURAL POWERS WORK ON BELLA, BUT EDWARD'S, ARO'S, JANE'S, ALEC'S, CHELSEA'S, AND HEIDI'S POWERS DON'T AFFECT HER?
A. Bella has a shield that protects only her mind. Edward and Aro both have the ability to read minds, but their gifts are blocked by this shield. Jane, Alec, Chelsea, and Heidi also work inside the head. For example, Jane doesn't actually inflict pain on someone's body; she just puts the illusion of pain inside her victim's head. It's a very effective form of torture. Conversely, what Jasper does is no illusion. He affects the physical body, slowing the pulse and
upping the endorphin levels to calm someone, for example, or raising the pulse and pumping out the adrenaline to excite people. Alice also works outside the mind, in the realm of possible realities. She doesn't see the thought process behind the decisions--just the outcomes.
Q. DID BELLA REALLY HEAR EDWARD'S VOICE IN NEW MOON? WAS HE HIDING IN THE BUSHES, OR WAS HE SOMEHOW COMMUNICATING WITH BELLA TELEPATHICALLY?
A. Edward was in England, Texas, and Brazil for most of New Moon. What Bella heard in her head was all imagined. Her subconscious was powerfully trying to correct the erroneous belief that her conscious mind was so absolutely sure of--that Edward didn't care about her. The proof that Edward couldn't know what was happening to Bella comes when she is almost killed by Laurent. Had Edward even had an inkling that Victoria or Laurent was back in Forks, he would have returned immediately to protect Bella.
Q. HOW COULD BELLA FALL IN LOVE WITH JACOB ALL OF A SUDDEN IN ECLIPSE?
A. Bella actually falls in love with Jacob in New Moon. It's understandable why this fact doesn't occur to her: Bella has fallen in love only one other time, and it was a very sudden, dramatic, sweep-you-off-your-feet, change-your-world, magical, passionate, all-consuming thing (see Twilight). She didn't recognize the much more subtle falling-in-love she experienced with Jacob. She was aware only that she preferred being with him over everyone else, that he was constantly on her mind, and that his happiness was essential to her own. She also enjoyed being physically close to him in a way that she didn't with her other friends. But it took her a while to add up all the pieces.
Q. IS THE CRYSTAL HEART THAT EDWARD GIVES BELLA REALLY A CRYSTAL?
A. No, it's an actual diamond that once belonged to Edward's mother.
Q. WHAT IS FOREVER DAWN?
A. Forever Dawn is the original title of the book that eventually became Breaking Dawn. Initially it was planned as an immediate sequel to Twilight, but it was decided that the book skipped too much that was interesting in Bella's last year of high school, and didn't have enough space for all the development the characters were crying out for. Still, the basic plotline of Forever Dawn, including Renesmee and Jacob and the Volturi, was always the end toward which the series was written.
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
REBECCA BRADLEY
Pages 65, 76, 87, 105, 114, 126, 127, 149, 169, 233, 234, 235, 239, 240, 254, 282, 299, 300, 332, 339
JAMES CAREY
Pages 342, 343, 345, 346, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 353
YOUNG KIM
Pages 66, 73, 80, 85, 90, 95, 103, 108, 111, 112, 116, 173, 181, 186, 250, 252, 284, 290, 291, 292
SARAH MCMENEMY
Pages 3, 70, 79, 83, 93, 102, 115, 116, 119, 124, 144, 146, 162, 180, 208, 252, 254, 272, 284, 291, 295, 302, 316, 317, 322, 337
LEAH PALMER PREISS
Pages 244, 245, 246, 247, 248
Table of Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Introduction
A Conversation with Shannon Hale
VAMPIRES
Physical Characteristics
Abilities and Limitations
Supernatural Abilities
Newborn Vampires
The Transformation Process
Vampire History
Vampire Law
Vampire Myths
Vampire Lifestyles and Psychology
Vampire Hybrids
COVENS
The Cullen Coven
Carlisle Cullen
Edward Anthony Masen Cullen
Esme Anne Platt Evenson Cullen
Rosalie Lillian Hale
Emmett McCarty Cullen
Mary Alice Brandon Cullen
Jasper Whitlock Hale
Isabella Marie Swan Cullen
Renesmee Carlie Cullen
The Cullen Home
The Volturi Coven
Aro
Caius
Marcus
Other Members of the Volturi Coven
Athenodora
Didyme
Sulpicia
The Volturi Guard
Alec
Chelsea
Demetri
Felix
Heidi
Jane
Renata
Other Members of the Volturi Guard
Afton
Corin
Santiago
Others Who Serve the Volturi
Gianna
The Volturi Lair
The Amazon Coven
Kachiri
Senna
Zafrina
The Denali Coven
Carmen
Eleazar
Garrett
Irina
Katrina
Tanya
Other Members of the Denali Coven
Sasha
Vasilii
The Egyptian Coven
Amun
Benjamin
Kebi
Tia
The Irish Coven
Liam
Maggie
Siobhan
James's Coven
James
Laurent
Victoria
The Mexican Coven
Lucy
Maria
Nettie
Riley's Coven
Riley Biers
Diego
Fred
Raoul
Bree Tanner
Other Members of Riley's Coven
Adam
Casey
Doug
Jen
Kevin
Kristie
Sarah
Shelly and Steve
The Romanian Coven
Stefan
Vladimir
The Nomads
Alistair
Charles
Charlotte
Makenna
Peter
Other Nomads
Mary
Randall
Joham and the Vampire Hybrids
Huilen
Joham
Nahuel
WEREWOLVES
The Children of the Moon
The Quileute Werewolves
Inheritance
Physical Characteristics
Abilities
Lifestyle and Behavior
Ancient Quileute History
History with the Cullens
THE QUILEUTE PACKS AND TRIBE
The Black Pack
Jacob Black
Leah Clearwater
Embry Call
Seth Clearwater
Quil Ateara V
The Uley Pack
Sam Uley
Jared Cameron
Paul Lahote
Brady Fuller
Collin Littlesea
The Tribe
Billy Black
Quil Ateara III
Sue Uley Clearwater
Emily Young
Other Tribe Members
Quil Ateara IV
Sarah Black
Rachel Black
Rebecca Black
Harry Clearwater
Kim
Joshua Uley
Claire Young
HUMANS
Family and Friends of Bella
Charlie Swan
Renee Higginbotham Dwyer
Angela Weber
Mike Newton
Jessica Stanley
Ben Cheney
Tyler Crowley
Lauren Mallory
Eric Yorkie
Teachers at Forks High School
Mr. Banner
Mr. Berty
Coach Clapp
Mrs. Cope
Mr. Greene
Mr. Jefferson
Mr. Varner
Other Students at Forks High School
Conner
Lee
Austin Marks
Katie Marshall
Samantha
Other Residents of Forks
Beth Crowley
Dr. Gerandy
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