Twilight centers on a boy who loves a girl so much that he refuses to defile her, and on a girl who loves him so dearly that she is desperate for him to do just that, even if the wages of the act are expulsion from her family and from everything she has ever known.

– The Atlantic, December 2008

Hmm . . . I think the sexually preoccupied, the secularists, and the atheists are really having fun with the nuances in this book.  I wonder why . . .