Quotes About Trust

We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe.

I never said a bad word about him. The whole time the two of your were together. Not one bad thing.

But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in.

It's the secret smile you get from knowing that,somewhere,there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you say anything to her,whenever you need to. And she can do the same,whenever she needs to. Most of the time this is not necessary. But the secret smile comes from knowing it's available,even when she's half a world away.

maura: is there anything you want to tell me? me: yeah. I want to tell you that my third nipple is lactating and my butt cheeks are threatening to unionize. what do you think I should do about it? maura: I feel you're not telling me something.

I want love to conquer all. But love can't anything. It can't do anything in its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

I know our nakedness means something. I know our nakedness is as much a form of trust as it a form of craving. This is what we look like when we are completely open to each other. This is where we go when we no longer want to hide.

you've gotta learn to love the falling, because it's all about falling.

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? Why do we feel we need that disconnect in order to connect?

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted.

Aturdido. Mi fidelidad era tan impensable como lo fue tu lapsus. De todas las cosas que creí que podían ir mal, nunca pensé que fuera precisamente esa. - Ha sido un error -dijiste. Pero lo cruel fue que sentí que el error había sido mío, por confíar en ti.

It felt a littlel less like a game. A trick. A trap.

People take love's continuity for granted...

I knew I should have call Jack, should have told him...but I didn't. Not yet. I was afraid of him thinking that I was crazy, too. I wasn't sure what he'd do if he saw me drowning. I wasn't sure he'd save me unless he was saving himself. what he'd say.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the person inside your head.

Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

In the long term, I can see how siblings could be helpful in life?someone to share family secrets with, someone of your own generation who knows if your memories are right or wrong, someone who sees you at eight and eighteen and forty-eight all at the once, and doesn't mind. I understand that. But in the short term, siblings are at best a hassle and at worst a terror.

His "devoted" is italicized by sarcasm, underlined by hurt.

Yeah, but the truth isn't very helpful if people don't believe it.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

It's weird how much that helps. To have one other person know the truth. To have that reflecting back at me. I don't actually need the world to know. Just one or two people.

And if you ever get the feeling you want to run away again, talk to someone about it. Because running away without a word is never going to be the answer to your problems; it will only cause more problems.

I want to tell Rhiannon all about it. Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.