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The look of pure disgust on the faces of the Volturi was clear.

Alice continued. "You had to pursue her, you should've stayed in Denali when you first met her and ran away like the coward that you are. You deny your true feelings, you wanted her, to taste her, drain the life from her body. Watch as the life left her. Yet you didn't. You are weak. They are all weak, everyone of them. Why should I deny my true nature just to fit in? Whatever Carlisle says we blindly obey, never questioning why. We are the superior race, yet he has made us tame."