Skinned (Cold Awakening, #1) QUOTES

1 " Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on. "

― Robin Wasserman , Skinned (Cold Awakening, #1)

3 " There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake. "

― Robin Wasserman , Skinned (Cold Awakening, #1)

5 " As last days go, mine sucked. The last day I would have chosen — the last day I deserved — would have involved more chocolate. "

― Robin Wasserman , Skinned (Cold Awakening, #1)

7 " Since I was dead — or worse than dead, buried alive in a body that might as well be a coffin except it denied me the pleasure of suffocation — I figured I should be allowed to grieve. "

― Robin Wasserman , Skinned (Cold Awakening, #1)

9 " Like when everything flipped upside down and the scream of metal on metal exploded the silence and the world churned around me, ground over sky over ground over sky, and then, with a thunderous crack and a crunching of glass and steel, a twisted roof crushing me into a gutted floor, ground, I wasn’t surprised. "

― Robin Wasserman , Skinned (Cold Awakening, #1)

11 " I did it all mechanically. Mechanically, as in without thought, as in through force of habit, as in instinctively, automatically, involuntarily. Mechanically, as in like-a-machine. "

― Robin Wasserman , Skinned (Cold Awakening, #1)

13 " 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 (Cold Awakening, #1)