59 Quotes by Alison Goodman

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life?

There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

Are you frightened now?"I nodded, shame flushing my skin."Is it going to stop you?""No.""That is the courage of a warrior.

How could I explain that it was not all playacting? That I felt more of the male spirit within me than the female - a fierceness that whittled me down to a sharpened spear of ambition. And as a boy, I was applauded, not punished, for such raw energy. It was not beaten out of me for my own good, or worn away by women's chores.

Sometimes there is no good choice. Just the choice that has to be made.

Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.

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.