Whispering Truths
"I leaned closer to her and whispered what her sleeping mind knew, the story of how we met. The story of how I came to love her with such crushing need and want, and the story of how I felt when I first realized this. I told her how it felt to make love to her, how soft and warm she was in my arms. How her body almost begged me when she was ready to come, how her face relaxed and smiled when I entered her...I hesitated because I didn't really have words for that, but I tried. Of course, I told her how sorry I was that I left her. I would spend eternity with her making it up to her. I knew someday she would want a family and it would be a trial in our marriage to come to terms with this together. I apologized for that, too. I told her about my hunt, I told her how cute she looked when she caught me cheating at checkers. I told her that wine was delicious on her tongue. I told her everything."
Sweet Circle
"Her voice was a squeak: 'What was that?'
She didn't know?
'That, my love, was me showing you what you do to me. You've taught me a new language.'
I laughed. It was new but entirely welcome and she needed to know that. 'I have no idea, but it was unbelievable.'
She shimmied up against me, drawing her knees up to her stomach and making herself into a soft, sweet circle. "I hope that wasn't a dream, too,' she whispered against my chest and fell asleep quickly."
Review by DeviKalika:
"Holy gods on high, I have come to worship at the Altar of Lola!
Woman, I do not have words for this. I had no idea - although by now I really should have - that this chapter would be so insanely intense from Edward's point of view. The way you write his voice, his thinking, his love... Honestly, sometimes it is literally unbearably good. I find myself holding my breath, or sometimes I have to stop reading because I am so overwhelmed with the purity and the beauty and the intensity.
You have such an incredible gift. Please, please, please NEVER stop sharing it with us."
Great quote via many reviewers:
"I loved watching Bella sleep because it was my selfish time to admit everything without wondering whether it would finally sink in to her that I was just a silly, lovesick, vampire fool."
