What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

by T. Kingfisher

I am delighted by obscure passions, no matter how unusual.

“I enjoy the passions of others vicariously.

because if we don’t pretend we’re laughing, we might have to admit just how broken we are.

The dead may walk, but I will not walk among them.

I was a pretty doll for my mother to dress up and for men to look at, and then she died and eventually I came here, where there were no men to look at me. And at last, I found a purpose.”