Quotes About Trust

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.

there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

If the past few months have taught me anything, it's that friendship is a smoke screen. The people you think are solid turn out to be mirrors and light; and then you look down and realize there are others you took for granted, those who are your foundation.

Campbell Julia says Don't do this to me Do what? Push me off the same cliff twice

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...

It takes two people to make a friendship work

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we're desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.