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Quotes About Trust

Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister.' And that's all she has to say.
~ Robin Epstein
Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie." Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Reed. I owe you big-time." That's the kind of friend she is.
~ Robin Friedman
I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.
~ Robin Hobb
I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.
~ Robin Hobb
The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.
~ Robin Hobb
Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.
~ Robin Hobb
It was inside me. The more I sought it, the stronger it grew. It loved me. Loved me even if I couldn't, wouldn't, didn't love myself. Love me even if I hated. It set its tiny teeth in my soul and braced and held so that I couldn't crawl any further. And when I tried, a howl of despair burst from it, searing me, forbidding me to break so sacred trust. It was Smithy.
~ Robin Hobb
His cracked lips moved. Beloved. He couldn't say the word, but I knew it. And so did his Fool.
~ Robin Hobb
When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.
~ Robin Hobb
I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if you have heard there was anything improper in our bond, there was not. That was not what we were to one another. What we had went beyond that.
~ Robin Hobb
I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
~ Robin Hobb
Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.
~ Robin Hobb
One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.
~ Robin Hobb
Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
~ Robin Hobb
I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.
~ Robin Hobb
when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him.
~ Robin Hobb
If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.
~ Robin Hobb
Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you.
~ Robin Hobb
A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more.
~ Robin Hobb
That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.
~ Robin Hobb
some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.
~ Robin Hobb
Little Brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me.
~ Robin Hobb
It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.
~ Robin Hobb
To bond to any animal was to promise oneself that future pain
~ Robin Hobb