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Quotes About Trust

You spared the adults in your household. You learned how if a thing is not spoken of, even those closest to you, who love you, will assume that it doesn't exist.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
When there is no longer any point in lying, no one will lie
~ Joyce Carol Oates
So they'd fucked up her life, those guys she'd trusted, for fun. What the hell.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
SO RISKY, to love another person! Like flaying your own, outermost skin. Exposed to the crude air and every kind of infection.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Love is not enough to keep us from harm.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Yet: what could be proven against Zachary Lundt, with no witness except Marianne? Her words against his? Zachary's friends would rally around him, she knew. She was not bitter, but she knew. It was clear to her, logical as a chess game in which you see your opponent's devastating moves to come, but are helpless to prevent them.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Stalwart Zeno seemed oblivious, that faith in his daughter being alive after more than forty days did not compute with faith that Brett Kincaid would soon be arrested for a crime involving his daughter.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
In marriage, one plus one is more than the sum of two. But sometimes in a marriage, one plus one is less than the sum of two.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Traição é uma coisa dolorosa. Traição é a ferida mais profunda. Traição é o que resta do amor depois que o amor acaba.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
loving him more than her life, her life she'd have tossed into the air confident he'd catch it, yes and
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Rogar a Dios que sea bueno contigo porque lo que te aterroriza es que Dios no sea bueno contigo.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Sleeping with another person is a responsibility, a trust: you must not intrude into the other's dreaming.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You don't understand! Gilbert turned his back on me, but he wouldn't have turned his back on God." Ariah
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I stand before you, naked as clear water. To be with you, in blood and soul into your fire storm. Even at your darkest when your heart is a Black Forest, I stand with commitment .
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Foolish woman, don't despair. My justice is My mercy. 5
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If marriage is a masquerade, there is the very real danger that masks may slip. The
~ Joyce Carol Oates
For it had always seemed evident to him, Jesus adored his faithless Judas above the other disciples.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It was a principle of hers that you must never say anything about another person you would not say in that person's presence.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
At such times you give yourself over to His will. There is no opposition to God, there is only surrender.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Confiad en lo interior, no en lo exterior. Confiad en el alma, no en el Estado.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I'd rather be truth-telling and I hope always to be without hypocrisy.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
if a man hurts you, and you show that hurt, and your eyes lock with his, he will never forgive you. For always you will be the girl he has hurt, which means you are the girl he can always hurt again. Mr.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
~ Joyce Maynard