Why do they call them love-spells, anyway?" he added bitterly. "It isn't love, you know." "Maybe because some people can't tell the difference.…Or if… - Barbara Hambly

Where'd you learn to make coffee like this?…If wizardry ever quits paying, you really will be welcome in my father's service."
"What do you mean, if wizardry ever quits paying?" Rhion demanded in mock indignation. "For one thing, as you may have noticed, wizardry doesn't pay, and for another, making good coffee is wizardry.

I suppose the talisman you gave me will keep people from noticing a full-grown horse?"
"I'm not sure," he said, gladly accepting the offer of a straight line. "It might keep them from noticing half of it but then the rest would be awfully conspicuous.

I brought coffee."
"Dinar of Prinagos has just won my unqualified support against the perfidious White Bragenmeres under any circumstances, at any time, in thought, word, deed, spell, and incantation.