Elizabeth Masen

"What others cannot do, this is what you must do for my Edward"

- Elizabeth Masen to Carlisle Cullen

Elizabeth Masen was Edward Cullen's biological mother and was married to Edward Masen Senior. Carlisle describes her in New Moon as having the same bronze hair and emerald green eyes that Edward had as a human. Carlisle treated her when she and Edward were dying of the Spanish influenza in 1918, and he says that she ruined her own chances of living by nursing Edward. While on her death bed in a hospital in Chicago, she said to Carlisle, "What others cannot do, that is what you must do for my Edward." Carlisle still wonders to this day if Elizabeth knew that he was a vampire. Edward ascertained all of Elizabeth's jewelry at the time of her death, and Edward gives Bella his mother's heart shaped diamond charm for her bracelet along with proposing to Bella with Elizabeth's engagement ring during Eclipse. It is also mentioned that he has given items to both Esme and Alice.The ring is described as a long oval, with slanted rows of diamonds, surrounded with a gold netting. Elizabeth, at the time she was dying, lived in Chicago, Illinois. She died from the flu as her dying wish was for Carlisle to save Edward