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I’d never seen anything more beautiful—even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived. Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 20, p.451

 

Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason… And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything. Edward Cullen

I need to make sure that the Cole Haan shoes of the big boy is scrubbed and cleaned for his school act in a few days but I googled for more New Moon book quotes. Enjoy!

I didn’t have to look to know who it was; this was a voice I would know anywhere—know, and respond to, whether I was awake or asleep… or even dead, I’d bet. The voice I’d walk through fire for—or, less dramatically, slosh every day through the cold and endless rain for. Edward.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.4

 

Edward had drawn many careful lines for our physical relationship, with the intent being to keep me alive. Though I respected the need for maintaining a safe distance between my skin and his razor-sharp, venom-coated teeth, I tended to forget about trivial things like that when he was kissing me.
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.16

Be good, please.
Edward Cullen, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.16

Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?
Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 1, p.16

 

 

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It’s Monday and I really need to work but here I am trying hard not to surf for more New Moon the movie still and screencaps – but I fail. It doesn’t help that my fellow Twi-fan friends are still as over the moon as I was with New Moon.

So I learned that shooting for Eclipse the movie has wrapped up (follow Eclipse’s director Chris Weitz’s twitter!) on October 24th and post-production will take 8 long months. Scheduled showing is on June 30th, 2010 and you bet that date is blocked for the movie as early as now. I want to buy all the magazines featuring the Twilight cast but judging from everything I am seeing online I might need to avail of the payday loans offered at the office to be able to get them all.

So I do what I do best – I surf for everything. The internet can really be a valuable source of information!

Soooooo…..

Team Edward?

Team Jacob?

This was one scene that made me giggle like a schoolgirl – especially when Bella grabbed Jacob’s hair by her fist while Jacob was sitting on her bed….*sigh*

BELLA SWAN! YOU ARE ONE LUCKY LADY!

I have been blogging about it months before it hit the big screen (if you have been following me you would know I blog about it every two weeks, together with my search on a Medicare supplement for our family every now and then), so you would not be surprised that I was able to see it the day it opened at the theaters. I was blessed to see it with girlfriends who are also twi-fans so all my (over)reactions were normal as we were all (over)reacting the same way.

I wish I can show the five stills that made my heart beat 1000times per minute but I can’t seem to find them all online. Rest assured, give me another week and my researching skills would have uncovered it!

1. Edward saying goodbye to Bella and kissing her on the head one last time before going away. That accomplished what 100 dialogues never could. Good job Rob P!

(This still was not it)

2. Jacob giving Bella the look at Emily’s place after fighting as a werewolf with fellow Quilette werewolf Paul.

3. Jacob and Bella on her truck on the way home before Jacob smelled Alice’s scent.

4. Jacob saying, “Bella, don’t go…for me.” before Bella & Alice went to Italy to try and save Edward from hanging himself in front of the Voltourri. Of course, Kristen Stewart had to ruin the scene by doing nothing but bite her oh-so-very-nice lips.

5.Edward’s “Marry me…Bella” – enough said.

Based from my scenes above, you can very well see that for me, Jacob was the star of New Moon As Bella said, “You are like your own sun” when she was cuddling with Jacob on her truck. And it is true, Taylor Lautner SHONE in this film – with his acting and his buff body, which is hard work I know . Edward has a few flaky scenes – I don’t know why he always seemed to be “reeling” it in all the time but his last scenes with Italy with him looking gloriously f-cking ugly but still amazingly gorgeous (I know – how does he do it?) was his redeeming grace. He was good there.

Bella was lame, and her only shining moment was at every succeeding scene she was shining and glowing and becoming more gorgeous and beautiful at the same time.

That said, CG animations were great. There were a few too many melodramatic action scenes but how can you portray vampire fight scenes without being gory in a romantic mushy movie right?

The movie was SO MUCH better than the first, and though I am not a Rob P fan, you can count on me to be first in line for Team Edward Jacob gave him a run for his money and for that alone, he earns a space in my dreams every night Stone cold though – all the way How can I say no to the romance and wisdom and passion of a 109 year old man in a 17 yr old (great) body?