“I was going to put what birthday it was on the sign," he said, "but Jace said that after twenty, you're just old, so it doesn't matter anyway."
Jace stopped with his fork halfway to his mouth.
"I said that?”

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

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