"We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins."

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I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time. i is my choice, William, and you cannot make it for me.

— Cassandra Clare