Quotes About Trust

Some things you want to make sure your teammates have access to if anything bad should happen to you.

Seeker thought if she laid a hand on the other's cheek, she could cut her palm to the bone.

Michelangelo Osiris Leary Kusanagi-Jones, Liar, was going to have to tell someone the truth.

Because I don't trust myself to make those decisions was not the sort of vulnerability you revealed to an enemy.

Comest thou to a snake for sympathy, Sir Poet?" "I come to a snake for information. What may be equally foolish.

I might have her body under control-but she, in her own way, had mine. I was going where she wanted to go, where her friends were waiting for us. And okay, it might be a little embarrassing for her to explain how she wound up handcuffed to a stanchion, but she could probably spin that as part of her master plan to subvert me.

Marlowe patted Matthew on the shoulder, and Matthew found himself grinning in naked relief; notorious rakehell, sodomite, and playboy he might be remembered as, but lately Christopher Marlowe was the only person who seemed willing to touch Matthew without some implication lying predatory behind it.

Her hand on his arm was like a mooring rope, a promise of harbor.

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.

Ever since that evening when you gave me my hat, I've been as true to you as I've got it in me to be. Don't force me to where untruth starts. You say nothing would make you hate me. But once make me hate myself and you'd make me hate you.

The most we can hope is to go on getting away with it till the others get it away from us

Sometimes there is naught you can do for a man, save stand quietly beside him and believe. (Advice to Felicity Langley from her Nanny Rana)

Friends are the balm that soothes the heart. – Nanny Tasha (former nanny to Felicity and Tally Langley)

Everything is all right, When you're here, When you're right next to me, When my hand is in yours, Don't leave me, Don't leave me empty handed.

She said most people were good on the inside, where it mattered. You have to give them a chance to show their goodness, she used to say. Some people need more time, that's all.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

If her own situation was a cup of poison, then she should drink from it herself and not expect Isabel to sip.

Elizabeth Chadwick