Memorable Passage

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

That quote is from Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer, which is one of my favorite books. The book is the 4th one in the series, where Bella and Edward finally get married and Bella becomes a vampire. In the passage, she is talking about Edward and how he could kill her and he will kill her so that she can become a vampire. I thought this was a good passage, because it really shows how much she loves him and he loves her. She is willing to be with him, even though he could so easily hurt her.

So often we think about the monsters in movies and the people that we don't like, but we never really think about the people that are the closest to us, hurting us. They are the one's that can hurt us the most, because they know us so well, and we trust them to know us that well because they are the type of people we hope won't hurt us. This is just one of my favorite quotes because of that reason. The people we think of as "hurtful" are less likely to hurt us than the people that are so close to us.