"Never mistake her silence for weakness. Remember that sometimes the air stills, before the onset of a hurricane..." Silence was all Georgia had ever known. Born deaf she lives in a world of utter silence. When her parent's die in a car accident, the 20 year old decides to move to Forks to live with her Uncle Charlie for a fresh start, hoping to forget the life she was leaving behind. She lived with a nose stuck in a book until her cousin drug her out of the house to meet the Cullen family, and from there her life was changed forever.