Quotes About Trust

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

Cardan had trusted Nicasia not to hurt him, which was ridiculous, since he well knew that everyone hurts one another and that the people you loved hurt you the most grievously.

Wisdom is for the meek," he returns. "And it seldom helps them as much as they believe it will. After all, as wise as you are, you still married Locke. Of course, perhaps you are wiser than even that—perhaps you're so wise you made yourself a widow, too.

That's family for you. Can't live with them; can't murder them. Unless Barron rats me out to Yulikova. Then I really might.

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him.

Cardan's fingers dig into my back. He's trembling, and whether it is from ebbing magic or horror, I am not sure. But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

But how did she make you agree?" I demand. "She has no power. She could pretend to be me, but she couldn't force you-" He puts his hand in his long-fingered hands. "She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.

Love was a family religion, passed down to her when she'd been too young to protect herself from belief.

You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

I wish I could say I was sorry, that I wanted to be honest the whole time, but I didn't. I never wanted to be honest. I just wanted what I told you to be the truth.

And that is why you ought not dramatically vow to obey someone. They seldom ask for what you hope they will.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

I have asked you to lie to me in the past, in this very room, but I would beg you not to lie now.

I want to tell you so many lies," he says.

What makes you feel safe when you go to sleep at night? Being able to check and see that your secrets are still hidden.

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

I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spies. You will never reveal their secrets, their meeting places, their safe houses. So long as I live, you will obey this.

It's the thrill of leaping without being able to see the ground below you, right before you realise that's called falling.

that's one good thing about being obedient and faithful and good. People think you will never surprise them.

Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.

I think I prefer Locke and his friends chasing me around the woods to you stabbing me in the back. Again

In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.

Secrets hurt the keeper more than you think.