Twilight: Trick or Truth?
“I’m the world’s most dangerous predator.
Everything about me invites you in… I’m
designed to kill… I wanted to kill you. I’ve
never wanted a human’s blood so much in
my life… Your scent, it’s like a drug to me.
You’re like my own personal brand of heroin.”
So says the handsome vampire, Edward
Cullen, to his star-struck 17-year-old lover,
Bella Swan, in the blockbuster Twilight
series. What’s the deal with Twilight anyway?
Vampires are just fiction, right? Actually…
How It Began
It all started one dark night – June 1, 2003
to be exact – when a virtually unknown Arizona
stay-at-home mom named Stephenie Meyer
had a mysterious dream. On her official Website,
Meyer reports, “I woke up (on that June 2nd) from
a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were
having an intense conversation in a meadow in the
woods. One of these people was just your average
girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful,
sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the
difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were
falling in love with each other while B) the vampire
was particularly attracted to the scent of her