Tango

“Respect for women is essential,” Jack tells him. “Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated. Treating women properly is not just a moral position—which it is—or an American value—which it is. It’s a strategic imperative, and you will always, always lead by example in this regard.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“That,’ Peregrine said, ‘is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revenger

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Peoples think I’s a harmless idiot,” he said. “They’s only half right.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revenger