Brendan McKee

“In the night, he must have eaten and slept; for in the morning he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the world.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“The trapper nodded and returned his pistol to its holster. 'He can count to one hundred if it suits you,' he said, opening and closing his hand to stretch it.

Charlie made a sour face. ‘What a stupid thing to say. Think of something else besides that. A man wants his last words to be respectable.’

‘I will be speaking all though this day and into the night. I will tell my grandchildren of the time I killed the famous Sisters brothers.’

‘That at least makes some sense. Also it will serve as a humorous footnote.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

“Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.”
― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops

“Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man