Quotes from Alison Goodman

Knowledge, after all, could not be unlearned.

The course of love was never straight.

Know your enemy," I murmured.

Lord Carlston was not a man to be contained, even in adjectives.

A drowning man groping for a twig.

Yet what I had learned is that love is a leap of faith. A leap that not only takes your towards the person you love but also towards the truth of yourself. Whom you love and how you love them will tell you more about yourself than anything else in this world.

There was a saying that the strength of a man's steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance.

I had heard recently that there were those who thought coffee disturbed a woman's mind. I always found it rather sharpened mine. Perhaps that was the real objection to it.

It was also true that after I learned about coverture from my reading, I became less and less inclined to hand over my half of our inherited fortune and all my legal and property rights—including the rights of my own body—to a husband.

was also true that after I learned about coverture from my reading, I became less and less inclined to hand over my half of our inherited fortune and all my legal and property rights—including the rights of my own body—to a husband. It would have to be a grand love, indeed, for me to willingly merge so completely with a man that I was all but legally obliterated.

She took a deep breath. 'If I survive, I will save your wife.' She looked down at him, standing on the level below. 'I know you do not recognise it, Mr Pike, but that is what honour looks like.

Which way do we run when we see danger: away from it, or towards it?" "It depends on what the danger is," Helen said. "No. It depends on what is at stake.

Men impinged upon women without thought; another male right in a world of male rights.

In the short time I watched, she was in some way encroached upon by every man who passed: a comment, a gaze held too long, or in one instance a threatening step toward her and a laugh as she drew back.

All I will say is my brother's narrow idea of Christianity seems to bring more suffering into the world than relief.

She was to be a fine young man, at least in the cut of her clothing. Her manner, however, was not so easily stitched into masculinity. According to his lordship, she still needed to deepen her voice, be less careful with the placement of her arms and legs, and now also take up more space. No easy task since she had spent most of her life learning to control any excess gesture or movement.

They are Deceivers, Lady Helen," Pike said with a note of condescension in his voice. "They manage to live as humans and fool us all. Deception is their nature.

Carlston drew a breath through pinched nostrils. "Then what about Lady Helen herself? She is a direct inheritor; the Reclaimer daughter of a Reclaimer mother. That, at least, is documented." The wave of a thin hand dismissed his lordship's words. Or, Helen thought, maybe it dismissed such a female lineage.

That seems highly unlikely, Lady Helen. Two weak elements do not make a strong whole. We would prefer that you have a male Terrene. I am sure you are most intelligent, but you are still a woman and therefore reliant upon emotion rather than logic, and subject to your sensibilities as are all your sex. You cannot be expected to have the same strength, strategic mind or logic competence as a man. A male Terrene would counter that deficit.

He gave her his half-smile and the sad curve of it pierced her heart.

El hombre que cabalga sobre los cuernos de un dilema termina con el culo pinchado.

Carlston, at least, believed she had courage. She could not let him down.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

The future is uncertain and thus holds the possibility of happiness for us all;