All 7 Uses of
alternative
in
Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
- You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That's how compromise is supposed to work.
Chpt 19 *alternatives = different possibilities
- Probably not, Dad, but I didn't have any alternatives — it just got to the point where I had to choose……. Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise.
Chpt 27alternatives = possibilities
- The first alternative, the best one for Bella, would be if she didn't feel as strongly for me — if she got over me and moved on.†
Chpt 22
- There's no going back..."The second alternative, the one I'd originally chosen, was to stay with her throughout her human life.†
Chpt 22
- It wasn't a good option for her, to waste her life with someone who couldn't be human with her, but it was the alternative I could most easily face.†
Chpt 22
- I chose to take myself out of her world, hoping to force her into the first alternative.†
Chpt 22
- Given that, I don't think you should give up on the first alternative, not yet.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(alternative as in: an alternative plan) something available as another possibility
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(2)
(alternative as in: alternative medicine) non-traditional or non-standard
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)