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Quotes About Trust

But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances.
~ Darren Shan
They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me.
~ Darren Shan
Arra made me promise, on her deathbed, that I would not let Darren die. I beg you -- do not force me to choose between loyalty to you and my vow to her.
~ Darren Shan
Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts.
~ Darren Shan
To be added when I get it cause I just realised I don't have it at the moment.
~ Darren Shan
thanks for saving me back there larten errmm thats mr crepsley to you - darren shan and larten creplsley - the vampires assistant
~ Darren Shan
Por lo menos estaba siendo honesto. Como ya he dicho, siempre prefiero la verdad –por desagradable que ésta pueda ser— a una mentira. Con la verdad, uno sabe el terreno que pisa.
~ Darren Shan
Okay, I sighed. I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me. Fair enough, he said.
~ Darren Shan
Trust one fool to see no flaws in another!
~ Darren Shan
Nobody had promised as much as the representives of the short man with the silly-looking moustache, p20
~ Darren Shan
You're joking, she said. That can't be true. It is, I vowed. Cross your heart? she asked. Cross my heart. Swear on your eyes? I swear on my eyes, I promised. May rats gnaw them out if I'm telling a lie.
~ Darren Shan
Harkat delayed for another frustrating moment, then nodded gruffly. OK. But if they kill us on...our way out, I'll never speak...to you again.
~ Darren Shan
Madam Octa —
~ Darren Shan
Melissa had faith in God and Theo had faith in the fertile Boratto testicles.
~ Darren Shan
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
~ Dashiell Hammett
That's wonderful. I do like a man that tells you right out he's looking out for himself. Don't we all? I don't trust a man that says he's not. And the man that's telling the truth when he says he's not I distrust most of all, because he's and ass and an ass that's going contrary to the laws of nature.
~ Dashiell Hammett
If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, It seems to be raining, on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: "Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but—well, by Gad!—if you lose a son it's possible to get another—and there's only one Maltese falcon.
~ Dashiell Hammett
But besides I haven't the time: I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for." I kissed her.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us. When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. Now what's up? I asked. Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that. I said: if you're lying to the old man, God'll punish you.
~ Dashiell Hammett
She tilted her head to the right. You didn't even tell me you had taken the case. I had done what? Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I hadn't and haven't. My getting shot ought to prove I was an innocent bystander. Does it hurt much? It itches. I forgot to have the dressing changed this afternoon. Wasn't Nora utterly terrified? So was I and so was the guy that shot me. There's Halsey. I haven't spoken to him yet.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Alice opened the door when I rang. She had on green pyjamas and held a hairbrush in one hand. She looked wearily at Quinn and spoke wearily: Bring it in. I took it in and spread it on a bed. It mumbled something I could not make out and moved one hand feebly back and forth, but its eyes stayed shut.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Dorothy asked timidly: Did his wife say anything? She sent her love to you. Nora said: Stop being nasty.
~ Dashiell Hammett
What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow?
~ Dashiell Hammett