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Quotes About Accusative

Miss Taylor smiled. "I shall assume that the verb in that sentence you've just uttered is implied, and that the phrase that you had in mind was That doesn't include…which would, of course, justify the use of the accusative me, rather than the nominative I. I assume that.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
It's not like me and Lesley are inconspicuous,' I'd said. Nightingale had winced, as he always does, at my incorrect use of the accusative pronoun but I think I'm beginning to wear him down.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
the singular: NOM. oëo, ACC. oë
~ Brian Kemple