Golden Eyes and Granite Flesh

Golden Eyes and Granite Flesh Chapter 6

For the first three-and-a-half novels of the Twilight series, Bella longs to become a vampire. She wants to stay young forever with Edward. She yearns to be part of the Good Family, the Cullens. And she craves freedom from the clumsiness, weakness, and inadequacy that mark her life. Bella would love to be fearless, bold, graceful, strong, and invincible. She dreams of becoming Edward’s equal in every way.

Despite all these longings and the ways that she imagined what it would be like, when Bella rises from the hell of her conversion, she is shocked at what she has become. Bella moves with the speed of thought and can see colors, hear sounds, and taste the air in ways that were impossible before (Breaking Dawn, 392 ff.). Ravishingly beautiful, her voice sounds like bells. She had known that she would get a new body like other vampires, one that was irresistibly attractive, but she had not been capable of imagining the new sensations she would experience...