Quotes About Trust

You deliberately don't ask the questions to which you would rather not know the answers. You call it trust. You know too late that it is cowardice.

The success of the lie depends a great deal upon how much the hearer wishes to believe it," she replied.

Las antiguas lealtades nunca se descartaban del todo. Narraway

He had come to believe that courage depended on knowing that there was somebody who believed in you.

E comes and goes," she said guardedly. "Sometimes 'e's around fer two or free days, then 'e'll be gorn again. Mebbe gorn for weeks, mebbe back sooner. I'nt reg

Las auténticas deudas rara vez son cuestión de dinero: son de amistad, confianza, ayuda cuando más la necesitas, una mano que toma la tuya en la oscuridad cuando estás solo.

I never lend books I expect to require again.

There is something uniquely precious about an old friendship. One has shared so much, seen the passage of time, how it has marked and changed us, the hopes realized and the hopes dashed, the work to fulfill the dreams, and the dreams that are crumbled and kept secret.

She had never been beautiful- she had known that from the start- but she would like to have been loved, above all things. She would have to settle for being liked, perhaps for being trusted, respected. Best of all would have been to have had the courage to stand up for herself and fight for what she believed in.

enough to get someone to tell him the

The truth deals only one wound, but suspicions a thousand.

I have already told you, Mr. Monk, I have no idea where my brother is. Not that I would necessarily tell you if I did. Your wife is an excellent nurse. She has rare experience in certain areas that are useful to us, and if she chose to go with him, and has not informed you, then that is her own concern.

She needed to believe in a power greater than her own, one with a higher justice, and a kinder mercy.

there was something extraordinarily sweet and comfortable about a friend who knows you and accepts you at your worst, your most bitter, or defeated, who sees your emotional ugliness naked and is not afraid to call it by name, and yet does not turn from you or allow you to cease to struggle, who wills your survival as precious.

Because being in love with someone is not the same as knowing them

There is nothing more precious than true friendship. It is the rock upon which all other loves must stand, if they are to endure.

Money is largely a fiction, a piece of paper that represents real assets, or the trust that assets exist. Take away this trust and it is worth nothing.

everyone depended upon the goodwill of others, on their skills or their patronage, their friendship or their protection. It was only that some forms of dependence were more obvious than others, not any more real.

She had never been beautiful—she had known that from the start—but she would like to have been loved, above all things. She would have to settle for being liked, perhaps for being trusted, respected.

am surprised your mother has not given you the same advice." Christina stared at her. "She has, she has done for years. I pay no attention. One's mother is always giving one good advice.

Es terrible traicionar a tu país. Me cuesta imaginar algo peor, salvo quizá traicionarte a ti mismo. El

Friendship was at the core of every relationship that mattered – allies, parent and child, lovers. On its foundation could be built all the other palaces of the heart. They

When you trust no one and believe in nothing, you are vulnerable to anything, and yet in some ways also to nothing. He was still learning what it was to belong irrevocably, not to be able to walk away because the ties are too deep, too woven into who you are, who you want and need to be, where all that is comfortable and precious resides.

Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.