Jeremy

“Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!”
“You burn prettily,” I said.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

“Here’s the thing,” Amos said. “If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we’d all be doing things, and we’d all wind up having a worse day, just in general.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Later,” Amos said, “when you’re wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we’ll die.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn