59 Quotes by Alison Goodman

Slowly he turned into the curve of her palm, cut lip pressed against her skin. She heard two whispered words, felt them kissed into her flesh: amore mio. My love. Two words: the shock of them held her still.

His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

Or perhaps one’s foes always seemed smaller once they had been defeated.

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world... 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? I don’t think I could do it.

Know your enemy,” I murmured.

You have far more courage than you think you do.

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

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona.

Never turn yer back on the sea, and remember what’s hidden beneath her is always more deadly than what’s in plain sight.