"He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?'
I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed.
'You shaved my legs?!'
Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be. "
— Karen Chance (Curse the Dawn)

"'Not really hungry.'
'She’ll eat.' Pritkin said curtly.
'I said —'
'If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation.'
'I eat plenty.'
'The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however.'
'I’ll have a sandwich,' I told Nick. 'No meat.'"
— Karen Chance (Embrace the Night)

"Once upon a time, when I was a child reading fairy tales, I'd ached to have my own adventures. Not that I'd wanted to be some dippy heroine languishing in a tower, awaiting rescue. No, I'd wanted to be the knight, charging into battle against overwhelming odds, or the plucky country lass who gets taken on as an apprentice to a great wizard. As I got older, I'd found out the hard way that adventures are rarely anything like the books say. Half the time you are scared out of your mind, and the rest your bored and your feet hurt. I was beginning to believe that maybe I wasn't the adventurous type. (Touch the Dark)"
— Karen Chance