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Quotes About Trust

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.
~ Tori Amos
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.
~ Tori Amos
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
~ Tori Amos
Till den som söker tillflykt hos en som är rädd och svag, nynnar jag en vaggsång mellan natt och dag
~ Tove Ditlevsen
and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
you can't depend on people who just let things happen
~ Tove Jansson
All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.
~ Tove Jansson
The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.
~ Tove Jansson
I don't want friends who are kind without really liking me and I don't want anybody who is kind just so as not to be unpleasant.
~ Tove Jansson
The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...
~ Tove Jansson
You're too small to be told everything.
~ Tove Jansson
A contract," Katri went on earnestly. "A contract is really much more remarkable than you might think. It doesn't just bind. I've noticed that for some people it's a relief to live with a contract. It frees them from indecision and confusion, they no longer have to choose. Both sides have agreed to share and assume responsibilities. It is, or ought to be, a deliberate promise where people have at least tried to be fair.
~ Tove Jansson
Tro på mig bara. Jag är förskräckligt klok!
~ Tove Jansson
You see, I love you as if bewitched, yet at the same time with profound calm, and I'm not afraid of anything life has in store for us.
~ Tove Jansson
As they pushed through the door a remarkable sight met their eyes: the Muskrat was sitting in the fork of a tree eating a pear. "Where's mother?" asked Moomintroll. "She's trying to get your father out of his room," replied the Muskrat, bitterly. "This is what comes of collecting plants. I've never quite trusted that Hemulen. Well, I hope the Muskrat heaven is a peaceful place, because I shan't be here much longer.
~ Tove Jansson
Repeat after me,' said Moomintroll, "may the ground swallow me up may old hags rattle my dry bones, and may I never more eat ice-cream if I don't guard this secret with my life." Go on now.
~ Tove Jansson
Stol på meg, frøken Aemelin, folk som man kan lure, liker man litt mindre.
~ Tove Jansson
Better not ask people about everything. They might like to keep their secrets to themselves.
~ Tove Jansson
Det var en som kom til mamma og sa: "Deres datter er usedvanlig, hun snakker aldri stygt om noen." Jeg husker det, jeg husker det helt tydelig. Men hvorfor? Stolte jeg på dem? Eller var det bare et spørsmål om å tilgi?
~ Tove Jansson
All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
~ Tove Jansson
Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.
~ Tove Jansson
The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.
~ Tove Jansson
My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
~ T-Pain
Even when he didn't know me, Lonnie was there to catch my falls.
~ Unknown