“He remembered Tessa telling him that Hell was cold, and he fought back the odd urge to smile at the memory. They'd been running for their lives, she ought to have been terrified, and there she had been, telling him about thein precise American tones.”

—  Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

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