More quotes by Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

"All knowledge hurts."
"What do you want?""Just coffee. Black - like my soul."
"And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders."
"The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me."
"That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain."