Quotes About Trust

David's was the first face I saw when I woke up from the surgery to sew up my leg. Eve made a face. It was like a bad rerun. His face is always the first one I see when I wake up from an attack by a homicidal lunatic.

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

As a writer, I have a moral deal with you, the reader - if I hook you with a story, my part of the deal is to follow through and give you a satisfying outcome.

I don't mind being shot at. It's having a government that lies to me that I hate.

I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree--aren't you? --Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila

All that she was, and all that she would be in the future, was because a clone soldier had put such undeserved faith in her that she had become that Jedi he imagined she was.

Before you handed someone power, you had to ask yourself if you'd be happy with the worst possible thing they could ever do with it.

There's three things you should never believe—weather forecasts, the canteen menu, and intel.

Look. If you want to go back to the ship fully clothed and mostly sober, I promise I wont tell anyone.

A dog has a military mind. He respects the chain of command. He needs to know who's in charge for the good of the whole pack, and if there's no leader, he'll take the job himself- because somebody has to. The difference between a human and a dog, though, is that the dog doesn't lie awake at night dreaming of having that power. p341

Fear knocked and faith answered.

She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.

If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.

If you love someone, you don't go out of your way to hurt them. You don't torture them. You don't terrify them or make them live in constant fear. That's not how love works. It's not how normal people work.

Broken: Never underestimate the power of a shared history.

Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren't lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.

Dogs are stupid," Rusty said. "This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat's respect every single day of your life. You lose it and—" He snapped his fingers. "That's what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north.

Dee came out of her room and gave Lydia the greatest gift a teenage daughter can ever give her mother: she had agreed with her.

She had dozens, even hundreds, of friends, but not one single person knew all of the pieces of her.

He talked about how people always obsess about lies. Damn lies, But no one really understands that the real danger is truth.

Claire hates you now. She believes me. She will never, ever take you back. We are never ever ever getting back together. Taylor Swift. How many times had Dee played that song after she caught Heath Carmichael cheating

Callie would never understand how Bill Gates had been shortsighted enough to give everybody easy access to the internet so that some day, these jackasses could reveal all of his dastardly plans.

Do what?" Buddy sounded flip. His eyes darted down to the wad of cash. "You got what you wanted." She shook her head. She had never wanted this. She had wanted to feel safe. To feel protected. To have someone interested in her life, her thoughts, her dreams.

The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.