Quotes About Trust

Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued," Cardan says. "For once.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is.

It's shocking," he says, as though he's giving me some great compliment. "I know humans can lie, but to watch you do it is incredible. Do it again.

She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

I don't lie," I lied.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

Some promises aren't worth keeping.

She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends. When a man tells you he's going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they're always right.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Cardan gazes at a rosebush with petals so black and glossy they look like patent leather. ¨It was terrifying,¨ he says, ¨watching you fall. I mean, you´re generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before.¨ ¨Mortals are fragile,¨ I say. ¨Not you,¨ he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. ¨You never break.¨ Page 159

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally.

Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

You think I don't deserve him," I say to Cardan. He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. "Oh no, I think you're perfect for each other.

Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

For a moment," he says, "I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me." I make a face at him. "And what made you decide it wasn't?" He grins up at me. "They missed.

Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.