Quotes About Trust

It's okay, mummy's in there lying on the floor. She'll be alright in an hour or so.

I really don't know what men used to say. I had only their words for it.

Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed—against reason—that they could fly: without that collective delusion sustaining them, they would instantly plummet to earth.

The two of us were—by our own admission—proficient and shameless liars of long standing. It's a wonder either one of us believed a word the other said.

I wish I knew what You were up to. But whatever it is, help me to get through it, please. Though maybe it's not Your doing; I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant. I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers; but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.

It's like the Vatican's porn collection, Zeb told her. Safe in our hands.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Yes, good, kind Crake. Please stop singing or I can't go on with the story.

A Sister, dipped in blood

Their faces were the way women's faces are when they've been talking about you behind your back and they think you've heard: embarrassed, but also a little defiant, as if it were their right.

What he wants is intimacy, but I can't give him that.

Do you think anyone will believe it?" Aunt Elizabeth asked. "They will believe whatever is in the best interests of Ardua Hall," I said firmly. "Which is the same as their own best interests.

You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke, Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham.

He owes me, but that could prove a liability. Some people do not enjoy being indebted.

When it came to love, wasn't believing the same as the real thing?

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total.

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.

You can't lead if no one will follow.

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.

Here comes his hand, planing slowly across the white tablecloth like a manta ray in one of those deep-sea documentaries. It's descending onto her own hand, which she shouldn't have left so carelessly lying around on the table.

It wasn't just the sex." A dark smile from her: that's better. "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 had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

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.