当生命是你所能给予自己挚爱的人的一切时，你怎么可能不把生命献给他呢？对于贝拉来说，无可救药地爱上爱德华之后，生活既像是充满甜蜜的幻想，又像是深不可测的可怕梦魇。不管她作出什么样的抉择，都将牵动着两个族群的命运。
Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories--Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights--with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans).