Top 35 Alison Goodman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t ask any questions and you won’t hear any lies.”

— Alison Goodman

2. “You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.”

— Alison Goodman

3. “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.”

— Alison Goodman

4. “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.”

— Alison Goodman

5. “I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger.”

— Alison Goodman

6. “But there is a chasm between what is known and what is said.”

— Alison Goodman

7. “There was a saying that a man’s true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.”

— Alison Goodman

8. “Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman

10. “Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.”

— Alison Goodman

11. “Only a fool would blindly believe everything she was told.”

— Alison Goodman

12. “No one can ever truly know what is in another man’s heart.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman

14. “How brief and hidden were the moments of destiny.”

— Alison Goodman

15. “A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.”

— Alison Goodman

16. “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.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman

18. “A drowning man groping for a twig.”

— Alison Goodman

19. “The course of love was never straight.”

— Alison Goodman

20. “It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature.”

— Alison Goodman

21. “It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman

23. “You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.”

— Alison Goodman

24. “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.”

— Alison Goodman

25. “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.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman

27. “You have far more courage than you think you do.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman

29. “Even without the Grand Reclaimer bond, Helen, you are my heartbeat. My pulse. You are the fire in my blood and the laughter in my soul.”

— Alison Goodman

30. “Know your enemy,” I murmured.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman

32. “I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.”

— Alison Goodman

33. “Knowledge, after all, could not be unlearned.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman

35. “Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society. “It.”

— Alison Goodman

36. “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 even the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world.”

— Alison Goodman

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

— Alison Goodman