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Quotes About Trust

You said you couldn't believe in anyone who didn't believe in you. I believed in you. You just didn't believe in me.
~ John Hughes
when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.
~ John Irving
Safer than we are." I told Franny. "Safer than love." "let me tell ya kid," Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. "Everything's safer than love.
~ John Irving
there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
~ John Irving
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
~ John Irving
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
~ John Irving
LAST NITE I HAD A DREAM. NOW I KNOW FOUR THINGS. I KNOW THAT MY VOICE DOESN'T CHANGE – BUT I STILL DON'T KNOW WHY. I KNOW THAT I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT. I KNOW WHEN I'M GOING TO DIE – AND NOW A DREAM HAS SHOWN ME HOW I'M GOING TO DIE. I'M GOING TO BE A HERO! I TRUST THAT GOD WILL HELP ME, BECAUSE WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO LOOKS VERY HARD.
~ John Irving
there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
~ John Irving
You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
~ John Irving
I TRUST THAT GOD WILL HELP ME, BECAUSE WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO LOOKS VERY HARD.
~ John Irving
There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands—with both hands.
~ John Irving
An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy.
~ John Irving
If you're God's instrument, Owen, I said, how come you need my help to stuff a basketball?
~ John Irving
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
~ John Irving
He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.
~ John Irving
friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.
~ John Irving
there was no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers.
~ John Irving
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
~ John Irving
There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.
~ John Irving
At that moment, everyone walks on the sky. Maybe all great decisions are made without a net," The Wonder herself had told him. "There comes a time, in every life, when you must let go.
~ John Irving
He felt fortunate to be with Helen; she had her own ambitions and he could not manipulate here.
~ John Irving
Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, Richard told me. And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.
~ John Irving
Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.
~ John Irving
There were those apres-sex moments when, in a half-asleep or forgetting that I was with a woman, I would reach out and touch her vagina- only to suddenly pull back my hand, as if surprised.
~ John Irving