Favorite Female Characters in YA fiction: Genya Safin, Alina Starkov & Zoya Nazyalensky (The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo)

“I am a doll and a servant. I am a pretty thing and a soldier just the same.” 

“It’s true,” I said softly. “You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience.” I leaned forward and whispered, my lips brushing the shell of his ear. “But I am an apt pupil.”

She looked like a saint. Delicate bones, glossy hair, perfect skin. All she needed was a halo.