When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.

It was a special feeling, irreplaceable, that was priceless. No queen on the throne could feel more important than me.

It hurt me to be away from him. Some days I went crazy wondering what he was doing. And when I couldn't handle it, I practiced music. I really had Aspen to thank for me being the musician that I was. He drove me to distraction. And that was bad.

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.