I don't know if I'm supposed to be holding on or letting go. I don't want to give up, but if there's nothing for me to hope for, then tell me.

I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.

It's just the way it is. The sky is blue, the sun is bright, and Aspen endlessly loves America. It's how the world was designed to be.

Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good.

I don’t think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me.

He let you have the pants anyway?" she asked. I had started talking about Maxon as soon as I could, eager to know how their conversation had gone. "Yeah. He was very generous about it all." "I think it's charming that he's a good winner." "He is a good winner. He's even gracious when he's gotten the raw end of things." Like a knee to the royal jewels, for example.