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Quotes About Trust

true. When you do this: You are not telling a fantasy. You are not making a mistake. You are lying. Lying is trying to make someone believe something that is not true. It is deceiving or
~ Joy Berry
Lying is not a good thing to do. When you lie:
~ Joy Berry
You disappoint other people. You cause people to wonder if you ever tell the truth. You cause people to stop trusting you.
~ Joy Berry
There are many ways to tell lies. You can tell lies with your actions.
~ Joy Berry
You might cause someone to believe something that is not true by acting a certain way. You are lying when you do this.
~ Joy Berry
People usually find out when you lie to them.
~ Joy Berry
Oh, you have choked me, but I gave you the leash. You have gutted me but I gave you the knife. You have devoured me, but I laid myself across the fire.
~ Joy Harjo
Don't forget: hold somebody's hand through the dark.
~ Joy Harjo
I was a star falling from the night sky I needed you to catch me I was a rainbow lifting from a dark cloud I needed you to see me You keep your eyes to the ground
~ Joy Harjo
The door to the mind should only open from the heart. An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.
~ Joy Harjo
Why you can't trust women. Even young girls. Can't know what the fuck they are thinking, can't know what they are feeling, can't know how they will surprise you except to know it won't be a surprise you will like.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted? If it were not for language, could we lie?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
As if whoever it was held that camera was her closest friend. Or maybe it was the camera that was her closest friend.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I don't want anything from you but the fact of you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The fundamental truth of my life whether in fact it was truth or a burlesque of truth: when a man wants you, you're safe.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numberous others, will say it for you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I'd like to be your friend—but only if you promise not to ever, ever count on me.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If she lets us down, if she's weird sometimes—just ignore it, and love her. Just love her.
~ Joyce Carol Oates