"I look like this because I'm alive," Reagan said. "Because I've had experiences. Do you understand?"

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I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.

— Cassandra Clare