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Quotes About Trust

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.
~ Celeste Ng
In the dark they are careful of each other, as if they know they are fragile, as if they know they can break.
~ Celeste Ng
How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She
~ Celeste Ng
There was an ease between them that, Moody was sure, could only come from being intimately comfortable with another person's body.
~ Celeste Ng
At last she turned to the only source she could think of: her mother. Her mother was a journalist, at least in name. True, her mother mostly covered small stories, but journalists found things out.
~ Celeste Ng
She remembered then that Lexie, thank god, had stayed over at Serena Wong's house last night.
~ Celeste Ng
They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be
~ Celeste Ng
This was what would haunt Mrs. McCullough most: that Mirabelle hadn't cried out when Bebe had reached into the crib and lifted her up and taken her away. Despite everything—despite the homemade food and the toys and the late nights and the love, so much love, more love than Mrs. McCullough could have imagined possible—despite it all, she still had felt Bebe's arms were a safe place, a place she belonged.
~ Celeste Ng
And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk.
~ Celeste Ng
It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight,
~ Celeste Ng
In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached.
~ Celeste Ng
Já não se lembrava de como era abraçar uma criança - abraçar fosse quem fosse - desta forma. Como o peso da outra pessoa se afunda em nós, como se agarram instintivamente. Como confiam em nós. Passa muito tempo até se sentir preparado para a largar.
~ Celeste Ng
He understood everything she did not say, which at its core was: Don't let go .
~ Celeste Ng
They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her.
~ Celeste Ng
She knew that he was telling the truth, that this had been the truth for a long, long time.
~ Celeste Ng
It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to
~ Celeste Ng
world without PACT; it is as axiomatic as gravity, or Thou shalt not kill. He didn't understand
~ Celeste Ng
They had been a team. They had stuck together, even in this small, silly thing. She had never expected a time when that would not be true.
~ Celeste Ng
Our peace of mind lies in our ability to trust the process,
~ Celia Lashlie
Never marry something until you've established the perfect pizza ratio...The premise is simple. My husband and I knew we were made for each other because we're a 6:2 ratio, six slices for him and two for me...Never marry a man who wants two slices one week and four the next. They're undependable and highly unpredictable and will likely dump you for some Internet honey who says she doesn't mind his back hair.
~ Celia Rivenbark
She suggested we 'crouch' buck nekkid on the bed or a dresser and leap out at him from the shadows. Now, my husband can't see all that well in the dark. I think if he comes into a darkened bedroom and finds 140 pounds of cellulite hurtling through space at him, he's going to run like the devil.
~ Celia Rivenbark
Blaine, on the other hand, just doesn't seem that reliable. He's the type who would cheat on Barbie with one of those Bratz sluts and then lie about it in the morning, even as Barbie discovered the creepy telltale amputeed boot in Blaine's sofa cushions.
~ Celia Rivenbark
The sunrise never failed us yet.
~ Celia Thaxter
I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.
~ Cesar Millan