Quotes About Trust

Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted. I can understand why men are afraid of them, as they are frequently accused of being.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

You know I love you. You're the only one. She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you….Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

friendship was always contingent.

Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Having no friends, I must make do with enemies.

Because they were ready for us, and waiting. The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.

It's hard to be afraid of a man who is sitting watching you put on hand lotion.

It was true, I took too much for granted; I trusted fate, back then.

what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Think of me as a guide. Think of yourself as a wanderer in a dark wood. It's about to get darker.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. They skip town or turn perfidious, or else the drop like flies and then where are you?

Stretch your hand towards those gentle eyes that regard you with such trust

I was nervous. How was I to know he loved me? It might be just an affair. Why did we ever say just? Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.