What is love?

I'd been looking for the answer to that question for centuries. Many things have changed in my time but love is not one of them, yet the answer still evades me even though I've had years to study its unchanging nature. At first I thought love could be achieved solely though the lord but it still wasn't quite as obtainable as I wanted. Then after I was changed and became one of the damned my relationship with religion became almost completely nonexistent. Then I thought love is in friendship and although I enjoyed many of my companions through the ages the bond we felt was not nearly as strong as the bond I saw them make with their wives and husbands. Cursed to forever be alone, or so I thought, I found Esme and changed her in my selfish loneliness then I though this... this must be love. But as we stayed together and even made a makeshift family together I knew that what we shared was mutual want of something we both didn't have. Seeing my "children" and their mates made me even more aware to the fact that I hadn't felt love but then one day that all changed.

When Edward first brought home his human girl, I thought what he felt towards her was just a passing affection and I sympathized with him. I too had looked to fill my lonely nights with a human woman whose blood called to me which left me with Esme. As time went on and I saw all the things he saw in the human girl and I finally felt some of the long gone warmth in my heart. Whether or not what he felt for her was just affection did not matter to me. I'd spent too many years yearning for what Bella gave me and thanks to her I can finally answer the age old question.

Love is the way she walks into a room. Love is the curl in her hair and the blush in her cheeks. Love is the way she bites her lip while reading her favorite part of a book. Love is her lips on mine. Love is her smiling when she realizes that I'm staring at her again. Love is the little gasp she lets out when prick her wrist and taste a drop of her blood. Love is the feeling of her body heat radiating into my frigid body, Love is her. Love is Bella.