FAMOUS QUOTES
“Hell, yes!” New Moon, Chapter 24
“I‟m really glad Edward didn‟t kill you. Everything‟s so much more fun with you around.” Eclipse, Chapter 4
“Nice to have toddlers guarding the fort.” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 11
“Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22
“So it‟s still standing? I would‟ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25
“I‟m sure you‟ll ace your classes… apparently there‟s nothing interesting for you to do at night besides study.” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25
“‟Bout time somebody scored around here.” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25
“She‟s too tame .” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 26
“Not much wild about you , is there? I bet that cottage doesn‟t have a scratch.” Breaking Dawn, Chapter 26
NAME: Mary Alice Brandon Cullen; preferred name: Alice DATE OF BIRTH: 1901
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: 1920, at age 19
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: An unnamed vampire who worked in a mental institution
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Biloxi, Mississippi
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Dark brown (human); gold/black (vampire) HEIGHT: 4‘10‖
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Alice is tiny and graceful. Her hair is very short and spiky because her head was shaved in a mental hospital and her hair was in the process of growing out when she was transformed.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: She can see into the future, although what she sees is based on decisions being made; thus, she must wait for a decision to be firmly rooted in the mind, or acted upon, before she can see the end result. Her talent is limited to humans and vampires because she has been both; she cannot see the futures of werewolves or hybrid vampires.
EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: She has attended high school and college several times.
She has degrees in fashion design and international business. One of the ways she makes money is by using her gift for seeing the future to predict windfall investments in the stock market.
HOBBIES: She plays the stock market and loves designing and shopping for clothes.
VEHICLES: A canary yellow Porsche 911 Turbo
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: Alice is married to Jasper Hale. She considers Carlisle and Esme Cullen to be her parents; Edward Cullen, Rosalie Hale, and Emmett Cullen to be her siblings; Bella Cullen to be her sister-in-law; and Renesmee Cullen to be her niece. She had a human sister named Cynthia, and she has a human niece who still resides in Biloxi.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Mary Alice Brandon — or Alice, as she was commonly known — lived in a middle-class home in Biloxi, Mississippi, with her parents and her sister, Cynthia, who was nine years younger. Her father was a jeweler and a pearl trader. He bought the pearls from local divers and then moved the pearls inland to be sold in more profitable markets away from the coast. His job kept him away from the family for days at a time. Alice‘s mother tended to their home and the orchard on their property, and took care of Alice and Cynthia. The girls were fairly close despite the wide age difference between them.
Alice had the gift of foresight even as a little girl, but her premonitions were not nearly as strong as they would be later in her life. They came to her more as feelings than visions. At first her parents thought her premonitions were amusing. ―Alice is always right,‖ they would say when the five-year-old dressed herself in a slicker even though the sky was blue; later, of course, the rain would begin. ―Grandma will be here soon,‖ she would announce. They would laugh and put out an extra plate.
―Alice was a character who just popped into existence fully formed — so easily. It was like if Edward existed, then he must have a sister named Alice, and she would be this person. And she was one of the things that was sad for me with the book, because I wantedher to be real so much. Oh, I would love to have a friend like that. There must be someonejust like her somewhere, because it seemed so obvious that s he must exist.‖ —Stephenie As Alice grew older, she became more hesitant to share her predictions. She hated looking ridiculous when her premonitions turned out to be wrong. (Weather was the easiest for her to predict correctly, because it didn‘t involve people and their tendencies to change their minds.) By age ten, she rarely voiced her predictions at all, but those she did give came true often enough that people started to talk. ―That uncanny child of the Brandons‖ was seldom asked to other children‘s birthday parties. Alice‘s mother loved her deeply and counseled her to keep quiet about her premonitions.
By the time Alice turned eighteen, she‘d learned to ignore her gift, for the most part, but occasionally she felt compelled to speak.
People started to use the words witch and changeling when talking about her.
By the time Alice turned eighteen, she‘d learned to ignore her gift, for the most part, but occasionally she felt compelled to speak. When she did, it sometimes turned out badly, such as when Alice warned a friend not to marry a certain man; the friend ignored her, and it was revealed that the man‘s family had a history of insanity. Rather than blame herself or her husband, the friend whispered to others that Alice had put a curse on her. On another occasion, one of Alice‘s favorite cousins planned to go west to seek his fortune, and Alice begged him not to. The cousin died in an accident on the road, and his parents — Alice‘s aunt and uncle — blamed Alice for jinxing his trip. People started to use the words witch and changeling when talking about her.
Then Alice had her most terrifying vision. She saw her mother being murdered by a stranger in the woods on her way into town. She told her mother what she had seen, and her mother listened to her. Alice‘s mother kept her daughters in the house with the doors locked and a pistol loaded. Mr. Brandon returned home from a trip two days later to a dirty house full of terrified women and empty of food. On Mrs. Brandon‘s insistence, he searched the woods near the road but found nothing. He was angry with Alice‘s ―damned stories‖ and ordered Alice not to put everyone in a panic again.
Alice began to be haunted by flashes of the stranger, still stalking her mother. When she told her parents what she‘d seen, her father was furious with Alice‘s hysteria. He insisted that the family go about their usual routine. But he was often gone, and when he was, Alice‘s mother followed Alice‘s desperate warnings as much as possible. Still, she had to shop for supplies and tend her orchard. When a month passed and no one had seen the man, Mrs. Brandon grew less wary. She began returning her friends‘ visits and attending sewing circles. She took the pistol with her every time she left the house — at first. After two months, she started to forget.