06.08.10: Glamour Women of the 年 Awards - Arrivals

*by Stephenie Meyer*



TWILIGHT - chapter 11 - COMPLICATIONS


"Good morning." His voice was silky. "How are 你 today?" His eyes roamed over my face, as if his 问题 was something 更多 than simple courtesy.
"Good, thank you." I was always good - much 更多 than good - when I was near him.
His gazed lingered on the circles under my eyes. "You look tired."
"I couldn't sleep," I confessed, automatically swinging my hair around my shoulder to provide some measure of cover.
"Neither could I," he teased as he started the engine. I was becoming used to the quiet purr. I was sure the roar of my truck...

*by Stephenie Meyer*



TWILIGHT - chapter 1 - FIRST SIGHT


It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them.
They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. They weren't talking, and they weren't eating, though they each had a tray of untouched 食物 in front of them. They weren't gawking at me, unlike most of the other students, so it was 安全 to stare at them without fear of meeting an excessively interested pair of eyes. But it was none of...

The Twilight Official Twitter site 发布 the link in Entertainment Weekly that contains both old and new hidden secrets.

1. Hidden wolves
''Look for an upside-down engraving of a 狼 in the shot of the bowl in which Carlisle burns his first-aid equipment; on Jacob's T-shirt when he meets Bella in the school parking lot for the first time; and a 狼 trinket on the dream-catcher that he gives her.''

2. Vampire elevator music
''When Edward, Bella, and Alice get into the elevator on their way to see the Volturi, the 音乐 playing in the elevator is from Strauss' Die Fledermaus (a.k.a. The Bat).''...

Among the various criticisms thrown out against Twilight is the allegation that the series promotes pedophilia. This is generally in reference to the relationship between Jacob and Renesmee, but sometimes it refers to the relationship between Edward and Bella because of their significant age differences. I believe that this is a misunderstanding of what 作者 Stephenie Meyer intended to portray here, which is not true pedophilia, and is not immoral in and of itself.

Pedophilia is a type of paraphilia in which mature adults feel sexual attraction to prepubescent children. This (unhealthy) attraction...

chapter 21. VERDICT
WE WERE IN A BRIGHTLY LIT, UNREMARKABLE HALLWAY. The walls were off-white, the floor carpeted in industrial gray. Common rectangular fluorescent lights were spaced evenly along the ceiling. It was warmer here, for which I was grateful. This hall seemed very benign after the gloom of the ghoulish stone sewers.
Edward didn't seem to agree with my assessment. He glowered darkly down the long hallway, toward the slight, black shrouded figure at the end, standing 由 an elevator. He pulled me along, and Alice walked on my other side. The heavy door creaked shut behind us, and then...