I love you, Beautiful Creatures, for being a romance novel that doesn't end with marriage or a baby.
I love you, Ethan Wate, basically going "Listen, we are too young to even start thinking about that. Marry me, not marry me, don't worry about that. I always want to be with you."
I love you, Lena Duchannes, accepting your boyfriend's non-proposal, and when presented with a ring that he describes as cheap and probably not even real silver, but belonging to his mom, going "Even better."
They really went "Fuck consumerism and worship of wealth, fuck fairytale stories about rich princes and perfect princesses, fuck pressuring young adults into marrying early, fuck pressuring young adults into having babies."
And I love remembering that the writers definitely based this book off of Twilight, and having the MMC go "Nah, you don't have to marry me" is such a power move, that they probably didn't even have to think about, it just happened naturally.
