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Quotes About Trust

Perhaps she doesn't care for anybody by this time — who knows? She wrote one, or two, or three kind notes to me, and promised to 'venir m'embrasser' before she left Paris; but she did not come. We both tried hard to please her, and she told a friend of ours that she 'liked us'; only we always felt that we couldn't penetrate — couldn't really touch her — it was all vain.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Don't believe everything you hear. But I am really in a way to be well, if I could have such sunshine as we have been burning in lately, and a fair field of peace besides
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another
~ Elizabeth Bear
But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It's comforting when God lets you get away with something once in a while. And a little unnerving. You start to wonder what he's got set up for you next and why he's softening you up, like.
~ Elizabeth Bear
So I am going to trust you. I want you to know that if it turns out you're playing me, I'm going to spend the whole endless time the black hole is spaghettifying both of us being extremely disappointed in you.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Friends don't keep score." Because friends don't have to keep score, my da would of said. Friends just pitch in as needed, as they can.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Aristotle, asked what those who tell lies gain by it, replied: That when they speak the truth they are not believed::
~ Elizabeth Bear
Jeoffry lays back his ears and continues to creep, as the Moppet showed him. she had said,
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sometimes the truth, told right, was the best lie.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Forgiveness is cheaper than permission.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You commit yourself completely to something and then you take your eyes off it for an instant and it's gone. Like it never was. Like you can't even see the evidence of the thing that was there, that you trusted your weight, your honor, your life, your heart to. I've seen some shit, let me tell you.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Trust my insider knowledge when I tell you that the only thing more frustrating than running out of variegated peach embroidery floss halfway to Aldebaran is being the shipmate of somebody who has run out of variegated peach embroidery floss halfway to Aldebaran.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The era of Terra's history that had spawned sublight interstellar exploration and the generation ships had not been one of trust and peaceful cooperation between peoples. More one of desperate gambles and bloody-nailed survival.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My Prince, Gavin thought, I seriously question your judgment.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Jane, he realized now, with an old familiar chill, had never lost her grip on his leash.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He'll come back to you," David said. "Haven't you noticed we all do?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Good thing for me you're not a murderer." I smiled. "I could learn.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Vincent's loyalty to the job had always been unimpeachable…but Kusanagi-Jones was about to gamble that his loyalty to the partnership would outweigh it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He was paying the immemorial price of apprenticeship: things concealed, games of trust.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A companionable hand on his shoulder made him shiver.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Fyodor came up behind him, a wolf among wolves, and pressed his body against the boy's narrow back. Vanya moved back, shifting from foot to foot, an anxious whine hovering low in his throat. Ian shivered harder, Keith and Fyodor holding him tight, arms around each other's shoulders, eyes meeting as Ian buried his head in his father's shoulder and folded into the embrace.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He's setting you up, Jenny. Damn. Has set you up.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Richard Baines turned his back at the sound of stones shifting and held up on meaty hand to help over the rocks, handing him down like a lady out of a carriage.
~ Elizabeth Bear