“Wine?”“Am I breathing?”“Wine it is.”

“In my mind, I am this awesome, adventurous bad ass. But in reality, I am just a bookworm that really likes wine.”

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”

“Water be wine,” I said, not thinking and distracted by the surge of magic. “Tears of the heavens, become fruit of the vine.”I felt more than saw Silla and Reese hesitate.But I kept going. “Water be wine. Water be wine. Blood from my body, the power is mine. Water be wine.”With a silent clap of energy, the entire bowl of water transformed into dark wine.”

“Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?""Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.”

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”