Joshua Collums

“You are a delightful guide. Now, will you do something for me?’ ‘What?’ ‘Don’t introduce these gentlemen to me and, if they ask to be introduced to me, give me good warning.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“She stared at the drone. “Do something.” She gulped. “My pleasure,” murmured Skaffen-Amtiskaw.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

“Are you abandoning me, then, doctor?’ ‘Yes, because I cannot go further with you down this road, which leads only to the foot of the scaffold.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Thea nodded. “That animal was brought from the stars long ago, as were many other things for the benefit of Urth. It is a beast having no more intelligence than a dog, and perhaps less. But it is a devourer of carrion and a clawer at graves, and when it has fed upon human flesh it knows, at least for a time, the speech and ways of human beings. The analeptic alzabo is prepared from a gland at the base of the animal’s skull. Do you understand me?”
― Gene Wolfe, The Complete Book of the New Sun