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Dr. Carlisle Cullen
A vampire, Alice is one of Edward’s adoptive sisters and his closest confidante. She’s in a romantic relationship with Jasper. Alice is tiny with short black hair, and every movement makes it seem like she’s dancing. Alice has a gift beyond what’s normal for a vampire: she sees visions of the future. However, Alice’s visions aren’t set in stone. The future she sees changes as people make new decisions that will take them on different paths (the weather, on the other hand, she can easily predict with certainty). Because of her close relationship with Edward, Alice fully embraces Bella once Edward is ready to introduce Bella to his family. And soon, as James becomes a threat and necessitates Bella having to leave for Phoenix with Alice and Jasper, Bella and Alice become trusting friends. Alice promises that she’s never going to lie to Bella—so she’s the one to tell Bella how vampires are made. Bella even suggests to Edward that her relationship with Alice is strong enough that if Edward won’t change her into a vampire, Alice might be willing to. Alice is an outlier in her family because, unlike everyone else, she doesn’t remember anything of her human life. Thanks to James, Alice learns why: she was kept in a dark cell in an insane asylum in the 1920s, where she underwent shock treatments for her visions. Her human life was so dark that she doesn’t remember it at all. She also learns that her maker turned her into a vampire to save her from James, who attempted to track and kill her. Though Edward is unwilling to admit it outright, he implies in places in the novel that Alice has seen visions of Bella eventually becoming a vampire.
Alice Cullen Quotes in Twilight
The Twilight quotes below are all either spoken by Alice Cullen or refer to Alice Cullen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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“They’re all adopted. The Hales are brother and sister, twins—the blondes—and they’re foster children.”
“They look a little old for foster children.”
“They are now, Jasper and Rosalie are both eighteen, but they’ve been with Mrs. Cullen since they were eight. She’s their aunt or something like that.”
“That’s really kind of nice—for them to take care of all those kids like that, when they’re so young and everything.”
“I guess so,” Jessica admitted reluctantly […] “I think that Mrs. Cullen can’t have any kids, though,” she added, as if that lessened their kindness.
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Chapter 12
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“No one knows you’re with me?” Angrily, now.
“That depends…I assume you told Alice?”
“That’s very helpful, Bella,” he snapped.
I pretended I didn’t hear that.
“Are you so depressed by Forks that it’s made you suicidal?” he demanded when I ignored him.
“You said it might cause trouble for you…us being together publicly,” I reminded him.
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Chapter 20
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“I see a room. It’s long, and there are mirrors everywhere […]”
“Where is the room?”
“I don’t know. Something is missing—another decision hasn’t been made yet.”
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Alice Cullen Quotes in Twilight
The Twilight quotes below are all either spoken by Alice Cullen or refer to Alice Cullen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
“They’re all adopted. The Hales are brother and sister, twins—the blondes—and they’re foster children.”
“They look a little old for foster children.”
“They are now, Jasper and Rosalie are both eighteen, but they’ve been with Mrs. Cullen since they were eight. She’s their aunt or something like that.”
“That’s really kind of nice—for them to take care of all those kids like that, when they’re so young and everything.”
“I guess so,” Jessica admitted reluctantly […] “I think that Mrs. Cullen can’t have any kids, though,” she added, as if that lessened their kindness.
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Chapter 12
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“No one knows you’re with me?” Angrily, now.
“That depends…I assume you told Alice?”
“That’s very helpful, Bella,” he snapped.
I pretended I didn’t hear that.
“Are you so depressed by Forks that it’s made you suicidal?” he demanded when I ignored him.
“You said it might cause trouble for you…us being together publicly,” I reminded him.
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Chapter 20
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“I see a room. It’s long, and there are mirrors everywhere […]”
“Where is the room?”
“I don’t know. Something is missing—another decision hasn’t been made yet.”
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