Christopher

“Love-charms were easily manufactured anyway: you just wrapped a piece of paper bearing the words “I love you” around ten or twelve gold pieces, and there you were. In an emergency you could dispense with the paper.”
― Barbara Hambly, A Night With the Girls

“never let it be said that Augustus Berrycloth-Young shirked his duty as a keeper of the secret flame. Not that I have the faintest idea where the secret flame might possibly be, although I assume that’s because it is a secret.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Masquerades of Spring

“Also I hadn't lost an ounce of the passionate desire to beat him over the head with a large stick, and surely that was a sign of true love.”
― Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

“I do not lack equilibrium,” she argued. “The ground merely lacks the courtesy of letting me know when it is coming closer.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain