Quotes About Trust

We're all imaginary friends to one another

I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.

Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them.

Bob," I asked. "What is all my stuff doing here?" "Oh," Bob said. "That. Well. Bianca got the idea, somewhere, that your stuff might explode if anyone messed around with it." I heard the wryness in my voice, though I didn't feel it. "She did, did she." "I can't imagine how." "I'm doubling your pay.

It's tough to say no to peace, to the comfort of it. All through history, people have traded wealth, children, land, and lives to buy it. But peace can't be bought, can it, chief, prime minister? The only ones offering to sell it always want something more. They lie.

I tried not to be too obviously interested, and fumbled my notebook and trusty pencil from my duster's pocket.

Do you know what I think? Marcone said. You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him. Yes. I drew my gun. Okay.

Faith in what?" "That things will unfold as they are meant to," Forthill said. "That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful.

Come with me if you want to live.

MY NAME IS Mouse and I am a Good Dog. Everyone says so.

Murphy," I hissed. "Are you absolutely sure about this hair? That it belongs to Kravos?" If it didn't, the doll wouldn't do diddly to the sorcerer, unless I managed to throw it into his eye. "We're reasonably sure," she whispered, "yes." "Reasonably sure. Great." But I knelt down, and marked out the circle around me, then another around the Ken doll, and wrought my spell.

In my judgment, my buildings are considerably less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.

Back-to-back, Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders pressed against the middle of his back. I should be friends with taller people, Grimm panted. Bite your tongue, old boy, or I'll hack apart your ankles.

Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't.

A good man, almost by definition, would seriously question any decisions he made that led to such terrible consequences for others. Especially if those others trusted him.

It's okay to hurt. It's not okay to fail the people who rely on me. That was my point of balance.

I have a monster under my bed, and it's Mouse.

Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. Crane

Hi, God, it's me, Harry. Please don't turn me into a pillar of salt.

Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family

I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my friend killed while I did it.

Just like old times," I wheezed. "Yeah, just like old times, Elaine. You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous . . ." And then a thought hit me. Just like old times. ". . . deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.