Stephenie Meyer Quotes

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Survival feels like cowardice.

Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

In my head, Carlisle’s kind eyes did not judge me. I knew that he would forgive me for this horrible act that I would do. Because he loved me. Because he thought I was better than I was. And he would still love me, even as I now proved him wrong.

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard