Quotes About Trust

She'd never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn't separate some small part of herself to reach for control. And God, he wanted to take her, to destroy that fascinating and innate control.

He walked outside onto the terrace and sat. Obviously settled and comfortable, he poured coffee. There were ways and ways to gain trust, he thought. With a bird with a broken wing, it took patience, care, and a gentle touch. With a high-strung horse that had been whipped, it took diligence and the risk of being kicked. With a woman, it took a certain amount of charm. He was willing to combine all three.

It was always reassuring to find that something loved hasn't changed.

He stopped at the base of the steps, turned her. You're a good daughter. With a casual tap of his finger, he tipped up her chin. And not a half-bad person, as people go. Oh, I can be bad. If he hurts her, David's going to find out just how bad I can be. I'll hold him down, you skin him. That's a deal.

Old friends are the bricks and mortar of your life.

Love, even when it's not real, can be deadly.

You couldn't be stabbed in the back if you faced your attackers.

I need you to trust me. Gennie. He took her hand and linked fingers. I do.That's what I've been trying to tell you. You haven't been doing a good job of it. No. He drew her closer. Let me try again. He kissed her, telling himself to be gentle and easy with her. But his arms locked and tightened, his mouth hungered. The spray shimmered over both of them as they stood entangled.

If I didn't say it, how do you know?" "When you touch me, when you look at me, when you hold me, I feel it." She looked up at him, eyes drenched. "And I couldn't love you this much without you loving me back. I couldn't know how right it is to be with you if I didn't know you loved me.

a man who could tell that terrible lie, live with that terrible lie, had something missing inside him.

I believe in us. - He kissed her again, swayed with her. - You're the one I can dance with.

Do you think, Sam, that even if it were only my own heart at risk, I could pour it into your hands again? Then just take mine. I'm not doing anything else with it.

but she didn't understand and couldn't accept using that unhappiness as an excuse or rationale for being unfaithful. why didn't people just end it? if they wanted someone else, or something else, why not break it off clean first instead of cheating, lying, tolerating, just existing?

Ä'sta e num?rul meu privat, nu cel de serviciu. Îmi dai un telefon? -Sigur. Probabil c? peste o or? ar fi prea curând,nu? Ea râse ÅŸi îi puse carneÅ£elul ÅŸi stiloul în mân?.

Well. Eli cleared his throat. He didn't have to talk to Tyler about the ways and means of sex. Thank Christ. He'd done that deed years before. His grandson was a grown man, who knew about the birds and bees, and about responsibility. But… Holy hell, Ty. You and Sophie. It just happened, he said again. I guess it shouldn't have, and I guess I should tell you it won't happen again.

North If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her.

Love doesn't require payment. Cam's right about that. There are no checks and balances here.

takes two to speak the truth— one to speak, and another to hear. —Henry David Thoreau

Friendship's the bread of life, isn't it now?

He'd always believed in her. They'd believed in each other. He'd been her rock, in a very real way. The rock that had given her a solid base to build on after a childhood of upheaval and discontent. Then

I know you... I know if you love him there's something in him that makes him worthy of it.

and while she hadn't been looking for a knight, she hadn't been searching out ogres, either.

How do I know you'll stay? How do I know, if I let myself love you, that one day there wouldn't be someone else, something else, and you'd just walk away? I can handle being alone now, I know how. But I can't-- I won't be left again.

When you take what isn't offered freely, you have nothing.