" I kept letting the crown scare me out of wanting you. I told myself that you didn’t really matter to me. I kept thinking that you had lied to me or tricked me, that you didn’t trust me or care about me enough. I let myself believe that I wasn’t important to you...One look at your back says you’d do damn near anything for me. And I threw it away. I just threw it away …. "

― Kiera Cass , The Elite (The Selection, #2)