Twilight is a young adult fantasy and romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is Meyer's first publication and was originally published in hardcover in 2005.

"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."