Quotes About Trust

if the only love you had ever known was conditional, so was the absence of it.

you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction--not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be...just because you're you.

Best friends," she said. We pressed our hands together, a promise sealed in blood. I knew it didn't work this way, because I had studied biology at Gymnasium, but I liked the thought of Darija's blood running through my veins. It made it easier to believe I was keeping a piece of her with me.

No. Because when you love someone, no matter what you tell yourself, it stops being a job. What does it become? Patrick thought for a moment. Revenge.

Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or promises—can be put back together but will never really be whole. And

I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed.

In her experience, the moment you showed you were weak in front of someone, they'd use it against you.

When I was four years old, I kept telling my mother that the little boy in our house was stealing things.

It would be far worse to think you were passionately wanted and loved and find out that you never were

weight. "I'm in," she called back to Reid.

She'd Shot A Man & Found A Friend - Maggie Allison

Things had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their course. -Plain Truth

She said she promised her mother that she would never drink a drop of wine. That was the drop she never drank.

While talking on the cube to them, I made a casual gesture, touching middle finger to cheekbone, that used to be phone code: 'Disregard this; someone may be listening.' Most of them returned the gesture.

It bothered her to be sneaky with him. She loved him more than she had any other man or woman on Earth. But she had to find a way to the artifact, either through trust or stealth, and Russ was the obvious candidate for either.

Perhaps all great loves are that, a secret that can't be shared.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.

C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she's probably going to end up loving him forever.

predators and habitual liars actually engage in greater eye contact than most individuals, and will lock eyes with you. Research clearly shows that Machiavellian people (for example, psychopaths, con men, and habitual liars) will actually increase eye contact during deception (Ekman, 1991, 141–142).

A rule of thumb: the truth teller merely conveys, while the liar often tries to convince.

Truthful people convey, the dishonest try to convince.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

A clear intention—stated without desperation or need, with a childlike spirit of trust, faith, and fun—led to an opportunity nobody could have predicted or orchestrated. Our job was to take inspired action when it appeared, and we did.