# Quote — Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

> Instinctively, I tensed to defend myself. Any vampire who saw Jasper would have had the same reaction. The scars were like a lighted billboard. Dangerous, they screamed. How many vampires had tried to kill Jasper? Hundreds? Thousands? The same number that had died in the attempt.

- Author: [Stephenie Meyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer.md)
- Book: [Breaking Dawn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn.md)
- Page: 402
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Breaking_Dawn#20._New) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn/instinctively-i-tensed

## More from this book

> It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

p. 524 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn/it-was-like.md)

> "'Bout time somebody scored around here."

p. 511 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn/bout-time-somebody.md)

> "I'm not even sure she's really a vampire, let alone a newborn," Emmett called from under the stairs. "She's too tame."

p. 517 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/breaking-dawn/im-not-even.md)