Quotes About Trust

If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.

During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings.

But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.

In the whole two years of their marriage she had never said anything similar, anything to indicate that she felt their being together was something less than a part of natural law.

figured Godwin

I don't guess I've watched you punish yourself for thirty years to be totally wrong about you.

All night Famous Shoes sat listening. He heard the plover cry several more times, and rejoiced. Men lied often, but the plover only lied when it had eggs to protect; if the plover's nest was near, then water, too, was near. In the morning they could drink.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. She'd

trust his intent, question his judgment

Friends don't reprogram friends, even when they're able.

I think that of the three of us, I alone have no food supply, said the kzin.

Leap of faith. Shit, no parachute. —Katherine Yunker

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you.

Obeying the order you don't approve of is the only real proof of obedience. She taught me that.

Always remember, said Petra, a friend is someone who understands your past, believes in you future, and accepts you just the way you are.... And a friend stands by you, Suzanne thought to herself,...No matter what it cost her.

You cannot make a deal with the devil and expect it to turn out okay.

When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?

there are certain things we can't erase, certain things that we reveal to the people closest to us despite what we may or may not know we are telling them. [Hannah Hall]

I don't think you get to be mad at someone unless they come through for you. I don't think you have that luxury. I think you think you can be mad, but really you're just doing something else. What's that? Waiting.

Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us--the people we try to love. [Hannah Hall]

A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always be there for me - as much it was exactly what another part of me wanted.

He never understood that I wasn't scared of someone leaving me. I was scared that the wrong person would stay.

Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn't test the people we love