Adelina

“Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the power to accept anything and move on.”
― Robin Wasserman, Skinned

“If you can't remember something, did it really happen?”
― Robin Wasserman, Skinned

“Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest.
“Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough,
which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that
I didn’t have any lungs.”
― Robin Wasserman, Skinned

“Eli shouted my name, and then his arounds were around me, and I reached for Adriane who held fast to a blistering, burning creature that once had been Max and somehow still breathed and stood and howled. Though he was now nothing but flame, a golem of fire, that lived only because he'd forgotten how to die.”
― Robin Wasserman, The Book of Blood and Shadow