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Quotes About Trust

The aunts always kept their promises, and they still do. They believe that every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
~ Alice Hoffman
In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.
~ Alice Hoffman
he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.
~ Alice Hoffman
Frances was sulky and suspicious, while Jet was kindhearted and so sensitive that a negative remark could make her break into hives.
~ Alice Hoffman
A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.
~ Alice Hoffman
Finding your soul mate is like coming home to a house where everything is familiar. You can walk in the dark and know where everything is.
~ Alice Hoffman
Shelby is brutally honest. That's why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can't have many friends if you act that way, but you can depend on the ones you have.
~ Alice Hoffman
You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is.
~ Alice Hoffman
You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.
~ Alice Hoffman
He wondered if what people said was true, that no one could hate you more than members of your own family.
~ Alice Hoffman
Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud
~ Alice Hoffman
Tell me you won't walk away again and I'll call the whole thing off.
~ Alice Hoffman
To friendship," she agreed, although for the longest time they didn't let go of each other and she knew exactly what he was thinking—This must be fate—for that was what she was thinking as well.
~ Alice Hoffman
Language was everything. Trust was for fools. Love came and went. Words could be stolen.
~ Alice Hoffman
You think you know somebody, but what do you know? Only what they want to show you. Remember, it's what's inside that matters.
~ Alice Hoffman
Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something...
~ Alice Hoffman
Go," Jet told Franny. "What's meant to happen will.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sisters were sisters, after all, and if they didn't stick up for each other, who would?
~ Alice Hoffman
Will her husband love her?" "Would you want love you had to buy?" Isabelle asked.
~ Alice Hoffman
Shouldn't he have waited?" "Not when you told him to go away. People believe you when you say things like that. You never told him you loved him, did you?
~ Alice Hoffman
but promise can disappear if you leave it to flounder
~ Alice Hoffman
They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.
~ Alice Hoffman
It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth. Only days afterward, each person who had filled out this list was deported to a death camp.
~ Alice Hoffman
she saw there were indeed the sharp white bones of murdered birds in every furrow. This is the way it began; she knew that from the day Hannah told her that she must run. A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted.
~ Alice Hoffman