Quotes About Trust

Now she hesitated, wondering whether she dare do what she wanted . . . but surely, if they were best friends, it was all right?

Am I evil? . . . I used to think I couldn't be, because you loved me

I thought you'd come back I thought you'd stop me marrying him I didn't think you'd let me do it

Robin's personal experience of the wilder shores of sexual adventurousness was non-existent. She'd only ever had one sexual partner and had reasons beyond the usual for wishing to trust the person with whom she went to bed.

Yo siempre digo que, si una chica vive con un hombre sin estar casados, es que lo quiere de verdad —repuso Satchwell—. Porque no hay nada que la retenga, sólo sus sentimientos, ¿no es así?

Katya had given Mr Blay to understand that he could turn up at any hour of the day or night and he took full and regular advantage of the offer.

The memory of Strike telling her she was his best friend made her heart feel immeasurably lightened, as though something she hadn't realized was weighing on it had been removed forever. After a moment's pleasurable savoring of this feeling . . .

She'd spent nearly half her life with Matthew, and not until a hard, bright diamond ear stud had appeared in their bed had she realized that he was living a life apart, and was not, and perhaps never had been, the man she thought she knew.

Let's go, Cormoran," said Robin. She took his arm, and to her great relief and surprise he came along meekly. It reminded her of leading the enormous Clydesdale her uncle had kept on his farm.

If you're going to treat me like some piece of special-occasion china that gets taken out when you don't think I'll get hurt, we're—we're doomed.

Her antipathy towards Strike seemed to have evaporated. He was not surprised; he had met the phenomenon many times. People liked to talk; there were very few exceptions; the question was how you made them do it. Some, and Ursula was evidently one of them, were amenable to alcohol; others liked a spotlight; and then there were those who merely needed proximity to another conscious human being.

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mine onely faithfull frend In heauy plight and sad perplexitie; Whereof I sorie, yet my selfe did bend, Him to recomfort with my companie. Edmund Spenser The

The simplest, most plausible explanation I can think of is that somebody offered her a lift. A car pulled up—" "Or a van," said Strike. Robin had, indeed, reached the same conclusion he had. "Someone she knew—" "Or someone who seemed safe. An elderly man—" "Or what she thinks is a woman." "Exactly," said Robin.

Jasper always said, "Tory faithful likes bastards or buffoons", and that he was neither one nor the other.

lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.' Tansy

When you're living a lie, nothing's more threatening than people who tell the truth…

you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.

Jesus,' said Robin, hurrying over to them, and finding nothing else to say she repeated, 'Jesus!' 'He was definitely on our side an hour ago,' said Strike.

Are you all right, Robin?' 'Yes, I promise I am.' She hesitated, then said, almost defiantly, 'Cormoran's been great.

I still mean the thing I said to you at the end. I always will.

they said, you won't be alone, you have something you've built, and all right, it might not be a family, but there are still people who care about you waiting in London

Jack said, 'The only friends we don't spare--who do not escape our scrutiny--are our lovers and those who become our enemies.

What are you - Secret Service?' 'If I were, I wouldn't admit it.' 'And you're not admitting it, I notice.