"It's not your fault," Steven insists, even though he doesn't know anything about her track record and anything that she's rightly or wrongly blamed herself for.

"You're not responsible for all the bad things in the world. Nor all the good things either. We're all just out here doing our best, hey?" And maybe there are people in the world, in the proverbial out there somewhere who make it their prerogative to do nasty things to other people, purposefully or out of ignorance. Or maybe they're just downright completely mental. This world is not full of saints. But Steven chooses to believe that most people aren't like that.

He chooses not to see her in that light, unless she can somehow convince him otherwise.