Other things become far more enjoyable. I haven't deprived myself of anything pleasurable here, and do not intend to. [ Except his wife, but that isn't intentional. He blinks finally, the thought of his human wife at home triggering her reminders for him to at least try to act human and blink and breathe every once in a while.

But he doesn't take a breath. He didn't trust the smell of people in this city; sometimes it was too inviting, even more so than Bella's. ]

That said, it is not an existence others should be forced to endure for eternity.