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"But I resisted. I don't know how. I forced myself not to wait for you, not to follow you from the school. It was easier outside, when I couldn't smell you anymore, to think clearly, to make the right decision. I left the others near home — I was too ashamed to tell them how weak I was, they only knew something was very wrong — and then I went straight to Carlisle, at the hospital, to tell him I was leaving."
“但我抵抗住了。我不知道自己是怎么做到的。我強迫自己不要停下來等你，不要跟著你離開學校。在外頭，當我再也聞不到你的時候，我可以更容易地思考，更容易地作出正確的選擇。快到家的時候，我讓別的人下了車——我太羞愧了，不敢告訴他們我的意志是那么的薄弱。他們只知道出了非常嚴重的狀況——然后我直奔醫院找卡萊爾，告訴他我要離開。”
I stared in surprise.
我震驚地看著他 。
"I traded cars with him — he had a full tank of gas and I didn't want to stop. I didn't dare to go home, to face Esme. She wouldn't have let me go without a scene. She would have tried to convince me that it wasn't necessary…
“我和他交換了車子——他的車子有滿滿一箱油，而我不想停下來。我不敢回家，不敢面對艾思梅。如果我去見她，她一定不會讓我走的。她會竭力說服我這毫無必要……”
"By the next morning I was in Alaska." He sounded ashamed, as if admitting a great cowardice. "I spent two days there, with some old acquaintances… but I was homesick. I hated knowing I'd upset Esme, and the rest of them, my adopted family. In the pure air of the mountains it was hard to believe you were so irresistible. I convinced myself it was weak to run away. I'd dealt with temptation before, not of this magnitude, not even close, but I was strong. Who were you, an insignificant little girl" — he grinned suddenly — "to chase me from the place I wanted to be? So I came back…" He stared off into space.
“第二天早上我到了阿拉斯加。”他聽起來很羞愧，就好像在承認自己是多么的怯懦一樣。“我在那里待了兩天，和一些老相識在一起……但我很想家。我討厭想到，我讓艾思梅傷心了，還有余下的幾個，我不是親人勝似親人的家人。在高山上純凈的空氣里，很難想象你的味道是那么的不可抗拒。我說服自己，逃跑是一種示弱的行為。在此之前我能很好地抵抗誘或，雖然它們都沒有這樣強烈，甚至沒有這樣接近，但我很堅強。而你，一個不起眼的小女孩”——他忽然咧嘴一笑——“能把我從我想去的地方趕走？所以我回來了……”他看向空中。
《暮光之城》
與圖書題目相得益彰的是，“暮光之城”系列別具匠心的封面設計則很好地傳達出了每本書內在的深遠寓意。斯蒂芬妮·梅爾指出《暮色》封面上的蘋果代表“創世紀” 內善惡樹上的禁果。象征貝拉和愛德華之間人類與吸血鬼禁忌的愛戀。在書的開頭引用了“創世紀”217頁的內容：“只是分別善惡樹上的果子，你不可吃，因為你吃的日子必定死。”這同時也代表了貝拉如何分辨善惡——選擇是否吃下那顆禁忌的果實，這比喻了選擇跟愛德華在一起或遠離他。
