“Clary’s eyes widened. She wondered if she was about to be broken up with. If so, she would have a thing or two to say to Jace about his timing, after she drowned him in the lake.”

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

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