Quotes About Trust

Let me hold your heart like a flower lest it bloom and collapse.

I do have that bad habit, so female, of taking people at their word.

I don't know if I can go on spilling myself out to people—those strange strangers.

Unless the Lord keepeth the city, the watchman guardeth in vain

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Do you like me?" No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster...

I hate to tell you, dragon, but that's an integral part of the whole usiness," he whispered. "If you're afraid to touch me then we're not going to get very far." She lifted her head to look at him. "I thought I could lie back and let you ravish me," she said with complete honesty. He shook his head, the smile hovering around his lips, his eyes intent. "This is a cooperative effort, my love. You have to do your part.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

We have nothing to fear but our mothers.

FINALLY she had convinced him that she would still respect him in the morning.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.

The boys wouldn't come to save him. Only Hazel would. And maybe that's why the boys would win.

the water was holding [him] close and telling him beautiful lies, and since it was the end, he chose to believe them.

The woods do not mean you well.

He doesn't want to answer any more questions with "I don't know." He wants his son to be responsible. He'd like him to be brave. Remi just wants to be the good guy, the good father. Just for once, he'd like his son to look up to him, to trust him

ONE WHO HAS been chosen for friendship by an animal is a lucky person indeed.

Weet je... misschien... nee, niet misschien, ik weet het wel heel zeker: een mens redt het alleen maar als er een andere mens is die van hem houdt.