Quotes About Trust

No one ever told you that in moment of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.

The thing that really gets me," she said, "is that the worst kind of man, the kind that you would never allow yourself to be alone with, because you would know he was a danger to you, was left alone with all of us.

You are the only one I can trust about this," Ash said. Which was maybe just another version of what Cathy Kiplinger had said to Jules: you are weak.

Sadness, excitement, then sadness again; it all rose and fell like the sounds of skaters scuffing the floor of the rink. Hold tight! she thought, conveying this to both herself and Cory, thinking of them in bed together, and the joint effort couples had to make to be a couple, and stay a couple. If one let go, then that was it, both of them fell. Hold tight! she thought, imagining his body, and her own much smaller body against it.

Does that scare you? Are you afraid that if I take away the mysterious part of you, I won't like you anymore?

knew everything about him, the way wives do. I even knew the inside of him, having been there that day in Dr. Ruffner's office to review the footage of Joe's colon. We sat and watched light travel through his most intimate inner tubing, and after that we were really bound together for life.

It's funny how you can go for a long time in life not needing someone, and then you meet them and you suddenly need them all the time.

He thought she might kill him accidentally or on purpose.

Faith had taken an interest in her. She had even said she admired her. And now Faith was giving her permission. But permission to do what? The answer wasn't at all obvious.

Jonah was a skeptic, the way all decent scientists were, but his skepticism was outmaneuvered by the good feelings that he now connected with being here among these people. This was what a family felt like; this was what a family was.

No one told you that in moments of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.

There are some places a person can go where no one else can follow them. And sometimes you just have to trust that they know what they're doing.

Will you be okay? I do not mean in a cosmic sense.

Dennis had fallen asleep before Jules got home, though he denied it in that strange way that people often deny they've been sleeping.

she told me her secret. And showed me what darkness was, and is, and how it works, and how it never goes away or ends.

Since then, he could only ever think about his sister, one wall away. And how he hoped Deenie never did things like this. With guys like him.

They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.

Give me your hand," she says, offering hers. "Hurry now.

My mom always says, you don't have a self until you have a secret.

Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open.

Here he is, the man who knows things and who should want to help me. But it is so hard to bring up things with any weight at all to a man like this. A man like this doesn't have real conversations.

But I would never tell anyone that," Dr Severin adds, leaning forward once more. She smiles ruefully. "You can never tell a man or he'll think, Ah! That's what driver her. And that's a way to weaken her.

There's a hundred ways sex can ruin you, but there's no end to the ways love can.

To be capable of shutting the world out, even death itself, and surrendering to the body, trusting in its powers, its secrets. No feeling but this. No feeling