#quality

Amelie said, “I won’t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals.” She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. “Now defend what is ours, my partner.” He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #funny #ghost-town #humor #michael-glass

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#poetry-quotes #equality

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#reading #equality

We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many people, in the abstract, would...let's say Paige....how many people would she sacrifice to keep Andy alive? The answer wouldn't make any sense if you were looking at the whole of humanity as equals. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#jeb #parasites #the-individual #equality

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

#independence #liberty #of-the-state-of-nature #equality

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#mac #equality

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#love #equality

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#equality

...it is well know that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#equality