attempt. Edward was still young enough to appreciate a mother‘s care, and Esme gave it to him. Edward grew to love his new ?father? and ?mother.? But as much as he respected Carlisle‘s ideals and valued Esme‘s gentleness and tenderness, he couldn‘t help questioning what it meant to be a vampire.
After almost a decade of living with Carlisle, Edward decided to leave his new parents and experience an alternate style of vampire life. He began drinking human blood instead of animal blood. Rather than become a true villain in his own estimation, he became a vigilante.
Edward used his mind-reading abilities to target serious criminals as his victims — murderers, rapists, abusers, pedophiles, and the like. For his first victim, he tracked down Charles Evenson, Esme‘s abusive ex- husband. In the end, though, he couldn‘t accept taking so many human lives, no matter the justification, and in 1931 he returned home to Carlisle and Esme and their way of life.
?I like that Edward‘s not so clean-cut, that he has a dark side, that he‘s doing things that are not clearly legal or illegal.? —Stephenie Edward knew from hearing their thoughts that Carlisle and Esme were sometimes concerned that he had no romantic love in his life. When Carlisle transformed Rosalie Hale and brought her into the family in 1933, Edward knew that Carlisle and Esme hoped she and Edward would become a couple. But as stunningly beautiful as Rosalie was physically, Edward was not attracted to her somewhat shallow and self-absorbed mind. The feeling was mutual. Edward and Rosalie always treated each other as brother and sister, and were not always on the best of terms.
When the Cullen family lived in Alaska, Edward had another opportunity to find romance, this time with Tanya, the leader of the Denali coven, a group that also practiced a
?vegetarian? lifestyle. Though Tanya was interested in Edward, he did not return that interest. It wasn‘t until the Cullen family returned to Forks in 2003 that anyone captured Edward‘s attention. There Edward met a human girl named Bella Swan. Bella was markedly different from every other person he‘d ever met in two impossible-to-overlook ways: First, her blood ?sang? for him the way no other human‘s had; second, her mind was the first he‘d encountered that was entirely closed to his mind-reading abilities.
FAMOUS QUOTES
?Be safe.?
