Top 500 Stephenie Meyer Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It’s like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.”

— Stephenie Meyer

402. “As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn’t plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.”

— Stephenie Meyer

403. “You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!”

— Stephenie Meyer

404. “If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.”

— Stephenie Meyer

405. “It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn’t.”

— Stephenie Meyer

406. “Go jump off a cliff, Leah.”

— Stephenie Meyer

407. “I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now.”

— Stephenie Meyer

408. “I’d rather die than be with anyone but you.”

— Stephenie Meyer

409. “I’ll always be waiting in the wings Bella.”

— Stephenie Meyer

410. “It didn’t feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I’d grown strong enough to bear it.”

— Stephenie Meyer

411. “Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn’t seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.”

— Stephenie Meyer

412. “I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.”

— Stephenie Meyer

413. “Bella, there’s a part of you that loves me.”

— Stephenie Meyer

414. “I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.”

— Stephenie Meyer

415. “Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.”

— Stephenie Meyer

416. “We’re a bit sensitive to blood around here. I’m sure you can understand that.”

— Stephenie Meyer

417. “Darkness is so predictable.”

— Stephenie Meyer

418. “I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else.”

— Stephenie Meyer

419. “No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot.”

— Stephenie Meyer

420. “Did you know your hair is just precisely the same shade as a teak inlaid ceiling in a monastery I once stayed at?”

— Stephenie Meyer

421. “I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me – that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.”

— Stephenie Meyer

422. “Don’t be a baby about this. No tantrums.”

— Stephenie Meyer

423. “That had always been my way, though. Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I just followed through – relieved that the choice was made.”

— Stephenie Meyer

424. “I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan.”

— Stephenie Meyer

425. “Kematian, yang menghisap madu dari desah nafasmu, tak memiliki kuasa terhadap kecantikanmu.”

— Stephenie Meyer

426. “I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.”

— Stephenie Meyer

427. “That’s the funny thing about knowing you can’t have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah.”

— Stephenie Meyer

428. “Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.”

— Stephenie Meyer

429. “As far as expense, I think if ‘Twilight’ does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there’s no way around it. They have to be there.”

— Stephenie Meyer

430. “I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned.”

— Stephenie Meyer

431. “Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella.”

— Stephenie Meyer

432. “There was no greater bond than one that required your life for another’s.”

— Stephenie Meyer

433. “For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward’s eyes.”

— Stephenie Meyer

434. “Speaking of which, would you like to explain to me how you’re alive.”

— Stephenie Meyer

435. “Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.”

— Stephenie Meyer

436. “It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.”

— Stephenie Meyer

437. “I bit a pillow. Or two.”

— Stephenie Meyer

438. “I figured if I played nice, I’d get more time with you.”

— Stephenie Meyer

439. “I’d really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I’d rather be a backup – like maybe the drummer for Muse It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.”

— Stephenie Meyer

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440. “And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be.”

— Stephenie Meyer

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441. “I have to step out for a second. Don’t do anything funny while I’m gone.”

— Stephenie Meyer

442. “I wanted myself. I wouldn’t let what was mine be destroyed.”

— Stephenie Meyer

443. “My mom is part albino.”

— Stephenie Meyer

444. “Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.”

— Stephenie Meyer

445. “I never hurt Grandpa or Sue or Billy. I love humans. And wolf-people like my Jacob.”

— Stephenie Meyer

446. “Life and love go on...”

— Stephenie Meyer

447. “Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular.”

— Stephenie Meyer

448. “This hostage stuff is fun.”

— Stephenie Meyer

449. “One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.”

— Stephenie Meyer

450. “The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane’s twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.”

— Stephenie Meyer