Quotes About Trust

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

You tell me about your ghost," she said. "And I'ss tell you about mine.

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she'd be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure of this that they could say anything.

Linney moves in the world with such firm, certain steps, being with her can make you forget your own confusion, at least for a little while.

If you never share the worst thing you've ever done with a single person, if you just carry it all by yourself, maybe it comes between you and everyone you meet, even if it's years later.

her salvation lies in creating a tightly woven network of nurturing, sustaining female friends.

You're his blue sky. When everything else is darkness. But is he yours?

I know the pull of a dark, complicated man, the kind who has trouble loving anyone but you. But let me tell you this: the ones who look like home are home.

She feels like the subject of her sex life is a puppy or a ferret, something she'd never in her right mind let off its leash, but which is now somehow running amok among total strangers.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

how monstrous the people you loved could be.

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…" He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.

Dis seker hoekom mens 'n beste vriendin moet hê, dink ek terwyl ek saam haar stap. Om jou hand vas te hou as jy uitmekaarval

We're each on our own tightrope. All we can do is pick one another up after we fall.

Love meant knowing you could be broken into pieces again, at any time.

the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.

She'd found that she needed closeness and trust more than sex. Desire grew out of trust, not the other way round.

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

I have been so busy asking for faith that I forgot to ask for patience.

My father says that believing or not believing doesn't matter; what is important is speaking with God.