He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for this little adventure. No more. Good-bye, Aspen.

Every girl will come with pros and cons. Some people will choose to focus on the worst in some of your options and the best in others, and it will make no sense to you why they seem so narrow minded. But I’m here for you, whatever your choice.

I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you.

But you should know the love can wear away under the stress of being married. Someone you think you love now, you might start to hate when he couldn't take care of your children, it'd be even worse. Love doesn't always survive under those circumstances.

You don't do that. You don't just leave your family. Sticking together... it's the only way to survive.

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.

No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.