Quotes About Suspicion

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

Maybe Anne felt men did not really make sense, a suspicion that has occurred to women before and since.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

Margot is very kind and would like me to confide in her, but I can't tell her everything. She takes me too seriously, far too seriously, and spends a lot of time thinking about her loony sister, looking at me closely whenever I open my mouth and wondering, "Is she acting, or does she really mean it?

I didn't trust anyone but myself.

If it were true, then Kristian had a far deeper and more urgent motive for killing Elissa than any of them had realized before.

He sneered with the impatience of people listening to the obvious lies of others.

She was innately suspicious of language because she could "hear" with remarkable accuracy what lay behind it, and also she just didn't know how to talk very well.

That one, there," Tonio murmured, but the weight of his suspicion was breaking him, sickening him. Send death for me, like that, some paid assassin? It seemed he'd already been dealt the blow and this was not life any longer, rather some nightmare place where that sentinel stood on the bridge and these strangers urged him to a meaningless portal.

How could anyone ever trust Cary Grant, I wondered—a man who looked as though he were made entirely of wood?

Having long identified my own soul with the salvation of the Empire, I felt no consolation in this city. I felt suspicion and profound distaste.

And yet still she watched him... he wondered why. One possibility, and by far his favorite, was that she was planning his murder.

A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that his entire life was about to change if he didn't get out of there, now. Away from the unexpected, undeniable lure of the dowdy young woman in front of him.

Leave her alone, Killoran. I promised her you meant no ill will. And did she believe you? Not for a moment. Killoran looked back at her. Wise girl, he murmured. But for now, she's safe. I promise to keep my marauding hands off her fair young body. For the time being.

Now, she had an innocent client. She hated innocent clients.

Foul whisperings are abroad

I had not said anything about what had happened the day before—about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.

She opened her mouth, clamped it shut again. This was new, this sudden favor shown Gloucester, had been brought back with him from Burgundy like some malevolent foreign pox.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes

I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

Damn, Atlantean, what did you do? (Julian) I apparently made a new friend. (Acheron) I made a friend like that once. The bastard almost gutted me. (Julian)

But this…this kid wasn't dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba) Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)

Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn)

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn't that another thing you're always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)