Quotes About Trust

I may hurt you, I will not harm you...

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

That's what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It's practically what they're for.

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.

To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.

I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.

And then she felt her Ell's great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in hers. Oh. Oh . They would not abandon her. Of course, they would not. How silly she had been. They were her friends—they had always been. Friends can go odd on you and do things you don't like, but that doesn't make them strangers.

She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.

The trouble with lies is that they love company. Once you tell a single lie, that lie gets terribly excited and calls all its friends to visit. Soon you find yourself making room for them in every corner, turning down beds and lighting lamps to make them comfortable, feeding them and tidying them and mending them when they start to wear thin.

Why should I care about you first kiss,' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.

I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.

Men, they feel nothing like what we must endure. You have to make room in yourself for him, and that is the same in a house as in a body. See that you keep some rooms in yourself, locked up tight.

You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.