“Only that’s not how it works, is it?” Jasper asked. His voice had grown so quiet by this time that he held the entire room spellbound. “You don’t get to decide how other people feel. The things you do matter. The way you hurt these children matters. Maybe you genuinely thought you were taking the only path available to you, but the truth is that you took the path you wanted. And you didn’t give a single, solitary damn what would happen when your kids tried to run after you only to find that you’d barred the way for any of them to follow.”
