Katrina

“I also had the feeling that the weapons that would serve me best were Chirp, my friends, and my wits. None of them had let me down yet.”
― Lish McBride, Red in Tooth and Claw

“...just perhaps, if you had the right face, you might understand what you are feeling.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

“The thing he couldn't really be described as feeling now was "unhappy," but he was aware of the concept and could construct a table of comparisons highlighting similarities.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“On the one hand, she was a seventeen-year old art student in Prague; on the other, errand girl to an inhuman creature who was the closest thing she had to family. For the most part, she'd found that there was time enough in a week for both lives. If not every week, at least most.

This did not turn out to be one of those weeks.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone