No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite.

Knowledge isn’t love

I love you, America Singer. As long as I live, I'll love you." There was some deep emotion in his voice, and it caught me off guard. "I love you, Aspen. You'll always be my prince.

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.

I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen's generosity was harder to see because it wasn't as grand as Maxon's, but the heart behind what he gave was so much bigger.