Read The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide Online
Authors: Stephenie Meyer
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The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide (48 page)
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Jacob Black was born in La Push, Washington. He grew up with his father, Billy; his mother, Sarah; and his older twin sisters, Rachel and Rebecca. Jacob’s best friends throughout his childhood and adolescence were Embry Call and Quil Ateara V. All three attended school on the La Push reservation.
When Jacob was nine, his mother was killed in a car accident on the highway between La Push and Forks. This loss was hard on Jacob, but he recovered better than his sisters did, thanks in part to his sisters filling the role of mother for him as much as they were able. When his father became wheelchair-bound due to complications from diabetes, Jacob became Billy’s legs. He did not resent taking care of his father; in fact, Jacob enjoyed spending so much time with him. Jacob looked up to Billy and thought he was a great dad, his only real flaw being his superstitious beliefs. Billy constantly tried to indoctrinate Jacob in the traditions and histories of the tribe, but Jacob stopped listening at an early age.
Jacob and his father were on their own as soon as Jacob’s sisters were out of high school. Both Rachel and Rebecca had a difficult time living in the place where their mother had lived; it made them miss her even more. Rebecca married a Samoan surfer right out of high school, and traveled with him around the world to his many competitions. Rachel went to Washington State University and worked through her breaks and holidays.
Jacob noticed the change in his father when the Cullens moved to Forks, but he didn’t understand it. He found his father’s aversion to the new doctor very embarrassing, and the increased emphasis on the Quileute traditions annoying. After a while, he began tuning out most of what his father said.
“I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life—it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating memories. It’s a fascinating place: old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else’s approval. There’s a lot of scope for a novel in that.”
—Stephenie
“T
HE
B
LACKS’ HOUSE WAS VAGUELY FAMILIAR, A SMALL WOODEN PLACE WITH NARROW WINDOWS
,
THE DULL RED PAINT MAKING IT RESEMBLE A TINY BARN
.”—
Bella (
New Moon
, Chapter 5)
Jacob was the fifth person to join the current crop of werewolves. Genetically, he was the rightful Alpha. However, he did not assume that title until later, when he formed a separate pack from Sam’s. He continued to live with only his father until his sister Rachel returned home and was imprinted on by Paul Lahote.
“Do you like scary stories?”
Twilight
, Chapter 6
“I guess I just violated the treaty.”
Twilight
, Chapter 6
“ ‘We’ll be watching.’ ”
Twilight
, Epilogue
“What are you, forty?”
New Moon
, Chapter 5
“Sometimes you’re a little strange, Bella. Do you know that?”
New Moon
, Chapter 7
“Well, I’m so sorry that I can’t be the
right
kind of monster for you, Bella. I guess I’m just not as great as a bloodsucker, am I?”
New Moon
, Chapter 13
“You really, honestly don’t mind that I morph into a giant dog?”
New Moon
, Chapter 13
“We’re a pretty messed-up pair, aren’t we? Neither one of us can hold our shape together right.”
New Moon
, Chapter 15
“Bye, Bella. I really hope you don’t die.”
New Moon
, Chapter 16
“He’s at the funeral.”
New Moon
, Chapter 18
“The treaty is quite specific. If any of them bite a human, the truce is over.
Bite
, not kill.”
New Moon
, Epilogue
“I don’t have any leeches on my speed dial.”
Eclipse
, Chapter 3
“Normal humans run away from monsters, Bella. And I never claimed to be normal. Just human.”
Eclipse
, Chapter 4
“It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see
her
, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her…. You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother.”
Eclipse
, Chapter 8
“Does my being half-naked bother you?”
Eclipse
, Chapter 10
“Bella, I love you. And I want you to pick me instead of him.”
Eclipse
, Chapter 14
“She’s in love with me, too, you know.”
Eclipse
, Chapter 22
“That
should have been our first kiss. Better late than never.”
Eclipse
, Chapter 23
“I’m not going to cut you in half anymore, Bella.”
Eclipse
, Chapter 26
“Make
Bella
see sense? What universe do you live in?”
Breaking Dawn
, Chapter 9
“Bella! What was the point of me loving you? What was the point of
you
loving
him
? When you die how is that ever right again? What’s the point to all the pain? Mine, yours, his! You’ll kill him, too, not that I care about that. So what was the point of your twisted love story, in the end? If there is
any
sense, please show me, Bella, because I don’t see it.”
Breaking Dawn
, Chapter 10
“Ephraim Black’s son was not born to follow Levi Uley’s.”
Breaking Dawn
, Chapter 11
“You know how you drown a blonde, Rosalie? Glue a mirror to the bottom of a pool.”
Breaking Dawn
, Chapter 14
“Thanks, anyway, Alice, but I don’t want to eat something Blondie’s spit in. I’d bet my system wouldn’t take too kindly to venom.”
Breaking Dawn
, Chapter 15
“I gotta say it, Bells. You’re a freak show.”
Breaking Dawn
, Chapter 22
“Jeez, Bells. You didn’t used to be so melodramatic. Is that a vampire thing?”
Breaking Dawn
, Chapter 25
“Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular.”
Breaking Dawn
, Chapter 33
“I
T WAS AMAZING THE AMOUNT OF DETAIL INVOLVED IN THE LITTLE FIGURINE—THE MINIATURE WOLF WAS UTTERLY REALISTIC
. I
T WAS EVEN CARVED OUT OF SOME RED-BROWN WOOD THAT MATCHED THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN
.”—Bella, on the charm Jacob gives her (
Eclipse
, Chapter 17)
“T
HE WATER WAS DARK GRAY, EVEN IN THE SUNLIGHT, WHITE-CAPPED AND HEAVING TO THE GRAY, ROCKY SHORE
. I
SLANDS ROSE OUT OF THE STEEL HARBOR WATERS WITH SHEER CLIFF SIDES, REACHING TO UNEVEN SUMMITS, AND CROWNED WITH AUSTERE, SOARING FIRS
.”—Bella, on La Push Beach (
Twilight
, Chapter 6)
LEAH
C
LEARWATER
DATE OF BIRTH
:
1986
QUILEUTE STATUS
:
Werewolf Alpha Second, under Jacob
WEREWOLF GENE SOURCE
:
Ateara, Black, and Uley lines
HUMAN HAIR COLOR
:
Black
WOLF COAT COLOR
:
Gray
EYE COLOR
:
Brown
HEIGHT
:
Around 5’10”
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
:
Leah is beautiful. She has perfect copper skin, shiny black hair, and long, thick eyelashes. In her wolf form, she is the smallest of the pack, and also the fastest.
EDUCATION/OCCUPATION
:
She graduated from the high school on the reservation. She is a protector of La Push.
FAMILY MEMBERS
:
Leah’s father, Harry, is deceased. She lives with her mother, Sue, and her younger brother, Seth.