What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.
Cassandra ClareMagnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.
Cassandra ClareClockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around. There is a soul under all that bravado. And he is really alive, one of the most alive people I have ever met. When he feels something, it is as bright and sharp as lightning.
Cassandra ClareWith their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.
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