Quotes About Trust

If she kept him next to her she was afraid of breaking him, if she pushed him too far away she was afraid of losing him.

At those moments I took it for granted that there was not and never would be a manuscript of Lila's. I had always overestimated her, nothing memorable would emerge from her - something that reassured me and yet truly upset me. I loved Lila. I wanted her to last. But I wanted it to be I who made her last. I thought it was my task. I was convinced that she herself, as a girl, had assigned it to me.

The daughter of the shoemaker, who had no bosom and didn't get her period and didn't even have a boyfriend, became in a few days the most reliable dispenser of advice on affairs of the heart.

Vuoi bene tutta la vita a persone che non sai mai veramente chi sono.

I like her, Mamma, you were right to have her come. She smells nice, just like a corpse.

Blijft het feit dat ik mijn hand opstak en zei dat het menselijke lot zo duidelijk aan de blinde razernij van het toeval was blootgesteld dat jezelf aan een God toevertrouwen hetzelfde was als plaatjes verzamelen terwijl de stad brandt in het hellevuur.

A lo mejor es que cuando uno se enamora de una persona, no la somete antes a un examen para comprobar si sabe escribir una carta de amor.

Todas las cosas del mundo pendían de un hilo, eran puro riesgo, y quien no aceptaba arriesgarse acababa deteriorándose en un rincón, sin confianza en la vida.

For your whole life you love people and you never really know who they are.

Per favore, per favore, non mi lasciare adesso, se no cado giù.

Non era riuscito a stare zitto, l'amicizia tra maschi ha i suoi patti non scritti ma solidi, non come quella tra femmine.

Quante parole restano impronunciabili anche all'interno di una coppia che si ama, e com'è elevato il rischio che altri le pronuncino distruggendola.

That fact remains that I, who had successfully completed a theological correspondence course, raised my hand and said that the human condition was so obviously exposed to the blind fury of chance that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit - this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son - was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.

Lei riteneva di fare una cosa giusta e necessaria, io ero lì solo perché c'era lei. Saliamo lentamente verso il più grande dei nostri terrori di allora, andavamo a esporci alla paura e a interrogarla. Alla quarta rampa Lila si comportò in modo inatteso. Si fermò ad aspettarmi e quando la raggiunsi mi diede la mano. Questo gesto cambiò tutto tra noi.

Parlammo un po' di quando aveva conosciuto Fernando e s'erano innamorati, disse una cosa che mi colpì molto. Disse: "Vuoi bene per tutta la vita a persone che non sai mai veramente chi sono".

O que se passava, afinal, no mundo dos adultos, na cabeça de pessoas extremamente racionais, em seus corpos carregados de saber? O que os reduzia a animais dentre os menos confiáveis, piores que os répteis?

Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many.

Tout rapport intense entre des êtres humains est truffé de pièges et, si on veut qu'il dure, il faut apprendre à les esquiver.

Quantas palavras permanecem impronunciáveis mesmo entre um casal que se ama, e como é alto o risco de que outros o destruam ao revelá-las.

we protect the truth principally by telling the truth about ourselves.

Queres bem para toda a vida a pessoas que nunca chegas a saber quem realmente são.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.