Quotes About Suspicion

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

In the moment when that glass passed from his hand to mine, something sent up a high wild warning cry in the back of my mind. Persephone's irrevocable pomegranate seeds, Never take food from strangers; old stories where one sip or bite seals the spellbound walls forever, dissolves the road home into mist and blows it away on the wind.

And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends' secret places.

I guess if you're not the trusting type, drugs probably aren't for you.

She would walk toward him, sniffing the air around him, like a hound. He smelled of alcohol—not

todo cidadão, ao falar ao telefone, tem que ter a presunção de que alguém está escutando

she looks me up and down like I might be holding her grandbabies hostage in my body.

Nunca serás capaz de pensar mal de los que quieres. Sospecha de todos y nunca seas descuidado.

Un pueblo informado sospechará de los políticos», escribió a Ático, al que pidió una donación de libros y manuscritos para la biblioteca.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

My wife thinks I'm too nosy. At least that's what she writes in her diary.

Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

Never trust a man who can dance.

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.