Defy or Defend (Delightfully Deadly, #2)

by Gail Carriger

Dimity was well aware that she was an acquired taste – but fortunately, once convinced to try, most people acquired a taste for her rather quickly.

You don’t stop missing the people you loved. Maybe you can heal from losing things, but not people. They take a bit of your soul with them and that’s not a wound that ever mends completely. It’s not a ghost, but the absence of one.”