“I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.”

—  Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments

"I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself."
Clary and Jace, pg.449
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

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