Quotes About Trust

The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.

I'm not asking for anything beyond your company in sleep. Just let me rest with the sound of your heartbeat beside mine.

My cousin tried to kill me today, he said. He realized that his voice held an edge of hysteria. She nearly succeeded. But I guess that's fair, since I was trying to kill her at the time.

Betia kissed my forehead. I won't leave unless you ask me to. I- Her lips touched mine chastely. The future will come. I will be there, if you want me.

Loss of that loyalty, respect and trust would destroy the Cobriana. Loss of their royal line would destroy the serpiente. If the serpiente refused to acknowledge Danica's child as their monarch, no number of guards would be able to keep that child on the throne. I had walked this precarious balance before, when I had declared Danica my mate. If necessary, I would do it again.

Could I, in truth, no longer rely upon the testimony of my senses? A thousand half-formed apprehensions flashed across me in a moment.

Miss B. says, It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.

Bidden or not, God is here.

Ne laissez aucun mal à s'abattre sur nous. Let no evil befall us.

Words are an unreliable way to measure the heart", she said. "I'm more inclined to trust what I observe rather than what someone tells me.

We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.

I don't trust a man who drinks,' he growled, not bothered about dressing it up. 'A man takes to drinking, then he gets weak, then his mind goes.' Cosca sadly shook his head. 'You have it back to front. A man's mind goes, then he gets weak, then he takes to drink. The bottle is the symptom, not the cause.

Promises are like flowers, often given, rarely kept

We'll see. Thanks for drawing your sword for me. I always had you down as a man to back the favourite.' 'So did I. But for a moment up there you reminded me of your father.' Pale-as-Snow planted his own boot on the wall beside Calder's. 'I remembered how it felt to follow a man I admire.' Calder snorted. 'I wouldn't get used to that feeling.' 'Don't worry, it's gone already.

People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic.

friends can be useful. If nothing else, a friend is one less enemy.

look of fury, a look of pain, a look of hatred you can trust. A smile can hide anything.

If you change your mind about the knife,' Grom called after him, smiling all the while, 'you can seek me out.' [...] 'Last time we met... you offered me a knife' Yarvi fixed Grom with his eye. On his knees, ragged and bloodied, but fixed him still. 'You told me to seek you out if I changed my mind. Will you give it to me now?

Give me only evil men for friends, Verturio wrote. Them I understand.

A bank with a reputation for mercy is like a whore with a reputation for chastity – one fears they won't get the job done.

My suspicions grow with every passing moment. They are never laid to rest. They only change shape.

Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.

When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.