“"It was hard not to laugh. Determination like that in a ten-year-old is something to see. He was like a pit bull."
"If pit bulls wore glasses and were allergic to ragweed."”

—  Cassandra Clare , The Mortal Instruments

Luke and Clary, pg. 211
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

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