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Quotes About Suspicion

There are other good guys. You said so. Yes. So where are they? They're hiding. Who are they hiding from? From each other.
~ Cormac McCarthy
That there is little joy in the world is not just a view of things. Every benevolence is suspect. You finally figure out that the world does not have you in mind. It never did.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I suppose the suspicion is that our common past can only warrant a common future if we are willing to rid ourselves of the outliers.
~ Cormac McCarthy
They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.
~ Cornelia Funke
Wodensfang, you're paranoid, said Hiccup, yawning. It's only paranoia, whispered the Wodensfang, if things aren't out to get you...
~ Cressida Cowell
Uh-oh, thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. This person wants to kill me.
~ Cressida Cowell
Yet he was tense, feeling that he and the elderly, estranged woman were conferring together like traitors, like enemies within the camp of the other people.
~ D.H. Lawrence
everywhere for it. And, as she sought, the conviction came into her heart that her husband had taken it. What she had in her purse was all the money
~ D.H. Lawrence
I don't believe in the world, not in money, nor in advancement, nor in the future of our civilization.
~ D.H. Lawrence
You must remember that here in Norway we are used to that sort of thing. There are witches everywhere.
~ Dahl, Roald
In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Only the paranoid survive.
~ Walter Isaacson
But a solitary suffers terribly from any suspicion concerning the few people he loves—especially
~ Walter Kaufmann
This, indeed, Charles Edward considered as a lady's secret; for although Rose's letter was couched in the most cautious and general terms, and professed to be written merely from motives of humanity and zeal for the Prince's service, yet she expressed so anxious a wish that she should not be known to have interfered, that the Chevalier was induced to suspect the deep interest which she took in Waverley's safety.
~ Walter Scott
Yeah, trust the fuckhead.
~ Warren Ellis
Tallow was nervously aware that his name was on the worse cold-case dump CSU had ever seen. He was not looking forward to having them look at him and judge by eye exactly how much his organs might be worth on the black market.
~ Warren Ellis
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
~ Charles Krauthammer
You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn't question it.
~ Charles Manson
I think I have an extremely aggravated case of paranoia
~ Charles Mingus
He knew nothing about Texas trailer law but he suspected that there was no really effective way of removing a person from a trailer in the Rio Grande Valley without the use of firearms or tear gas.
~ Charles Portis
We left the flat together. I expected– dreaded– Mrs. Hennessy popping out her door and asking who my young man was. "An escaped murderer, Mrs. Hennessy; my father will be horrified." But she didn't come out her door.
~ Charles Todd
There was always a slug on the lettuce. This was too good to be true. He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David. He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet. Being carful had kept him alive this far. There was no reason to stop being careful now.
~ Charlie Higson
It does not do to trust people too much.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
His father is hinky, she said with a sigh. And by hinky she meant a drug kingpin .
~ Chelsea Cain