“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, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“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, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He thought me courageous? But I was terrified - always terrified.
'No,' I said flatly. 'I don't."
He paused from stuffing the invaluable robe between two bales. 'Are you frightened now?'
I nodded, shame flushing my skin.
'Is it going to stop you?'
'No.'
'That is the courage of a warrior.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me.
'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?'
'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“A shrieking rise of power rushed into my pathways, rocking me against the wall. Ido's body slammed into mine. He was not going to let go. Not now. The Rat Dragon howled, his heavy blue force driven back by the onslaught of sinuous gold. Raw,rejoicing energy flooded my seven centers of power; opening,pushing, seeking. And behind it all, a presence exulting in the joy of release and reunion. I looked up and finally my mind-sight was clear. I could see the Mirror Dragon. My Dragon.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“How brief and hidden were the moments of destiny.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“-Vos tenéis el valor de un guerrero -masculló.
Vi que se volvía y recogía ropas del suelo. ¿Él creía que yo era valiente? Pero estaba aterrado -siempre aterrado.
-No -objeté-. No lo tengo.
Él dejó de meter aquella túnica de valor incalculable entre dos fardos y me miró.
-¿Tenéis miedo ahora?
Asentí, y me ruboricé de verguenza.
-¿Y el miedo va a impediros actuar?
-No.
-Ese es el valor del guerrero." Ryko y Eon”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“It was Dolana, at the salt farm, who first told me about the gaze of men: that look of temporary possession that some men pressed against female flesh. About its dangers and possibilities. It can be used to survive, Dolana had said softly, showing me the power that lay in reflecting a man's desire. And even at twelve years old, the knowledge of it was already in the way I moved my head, my hands, my shoulders. But Dolana had whispered her secrets to a girl. And I had to become a boy. I had to stop being alert to the turn of a man's head towards me. Stop glancing up to meet his gaze in fleeting connection. Stop falsely veiling my eyes from his momentary interest. It was hard to train out of my body, but I practised and learned to cloak myself in the skin and gaze of a boy.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“Recuerda, hijo mio, un dragón es como un recaudador de impuestos: aunque sólo le debas un lingote de oro, te perseguirá por toda la eternidad." El Emperador”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“Un refrán decía que el verdadero carácter de un hombre se demostraba en la derrota. Pero a mi me parecía que también se demostraba en la victoria." Eon”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“Descubrí que aceptar la verdad de quién era me otorgaba poder. Tal vez no sea una verdad que otros puedan aceptar, pero no puedo vivir de ningún otro modo. ¿Cómo sería vivir una mentira cada minuto de tu vida?" Dama Dela”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“El hombre que cabalga sobre los cuernos de un dilema termina con el culo pinchado.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“A drowning man groping for a twig.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
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“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
― Ayn Rand, quote from The Fountainhead
“I WONDER IF WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT SOMEBODY THEY DREAM ABOUT YOU.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, quote from Harriet the Spy
“Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them”
― L.J. Smith, quote from Night World, No. 2
“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what made we want to stay.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Fallen Too Far
“The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Timeline
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