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Quotes About Trust

If," I said through my teeth, "you ever raise a hand to me again, James Fraser, I'll cut out your heart and fry it for breakfast!
~ Diana Gabaldon
Come to bed, a nighean. Nothing hurts when ye love me." He was right; nothing did.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I had noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with theirs and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought... it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than the joining of bodies.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor of anyone here, so long as I'm with ye.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and family, love.'She cast a lopsided smile at Jamie. 'And that's saying quite a bit.
~ Diana Gabaldon
We thought you were dead, you bloody arsehole!" he said, furious. "Both of us! Dead! And we—we—took too much to drink one night—very much too much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ We spoke of you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Damn you, neither one of us was making love to the other—we were both fucking you!
~ Diana Gabaldon
Thee is my wolf," she'd said to him. "And if thee hunts at night, thee will come home." "And sleep at thy feet," he'd replied.
~ Diana Gabaldon
marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing---as he knew of me--that he will protect you with his life. I love you forever, Brianna. I know whose child you truly are. With all my love, Dad.
~ Diana Gabaldon
And suddenly it was all simple. He held out his arms to her. She stepped into them and found that she had been wrong; he was as big as she'd imagined—and his arms were as strong about her as she had ever dared to hope.
~ Diana Gabaldon
he found that after prolonged contact with Claire and her opinions, he had much less trust in physicians that heretofore - and he hadn't had much to begin with.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Sassenach," he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm? "Who in God's name is John Wayne?" "You are," I said. "Go to sleep.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It was a leap of faith—to throw one's heart across a gulf, and trust another to catch it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
And found myself lying with my head in Jamie's lap. And heard him saying softly, to himself or to me, "For your sake, I will continue—though for mine alone Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I would not.
~ Diana Gabaldon
If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You'd forgive me for Claire - but not for killing your . . . men. He glanced at the two Craddocks, spotty as a pair of raisin puddings and - Grey's look implied - likely no brighter.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You're the world I have," she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety.
~ Diana Gabaldon
And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which He has placed me.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A good marriage is one of the most precious gifts from God
~ Diana Gabaldon
I chose my way when I wed ye, though I kent it not at the time. But I chose, and cannot now turn back, even if I would.' 'Would you?' I looked into his eyes as I asked, and read the answer there. He shook his head. 'Would you? For you have chosen, as much as I.
~ Diana Gabaldon
If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And I am not prepared to admit such a thing.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You can…call me Da," he said. His voice was husky; he stopped and cleared his throat. "If—if ye want to, I mean, Da. Is that Gaelic?" He smiled back, the corners of his mouth trembling slightly. "No. It's only…simple." And suddenly it was all simple. He held out his arms to her. She stepped into them and found that she had been wrong;—and his arms were as strong about her as she had ever dared to hope.
~ Diana Gabaldon
but there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.
~ Diana Gabaldon