Quotes About Trust

If you get mad at someone for being right, they'll second-guess themselves constantly. If you yell at them for telling the truth, they'll just lie next time.

What did Lincoln say about fooling people? "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

We never spoke of it but we knew that to come within the orbit of each other's skin-scent and cellular hum could end only one way: falling helplessly, spectacularly into the other's gravity well, momentarily brilliant like all falling stars, but doomed, because I loved Rose. And this friendship was too precious to burn.

If I chose Kick, she would accept us without reservation and never remind me of this conversation by word or deed; she would close over it like the ocean over a swimmer's head.

Marghe was perturbed by her sense of security in Aoife's presence, recognizing the feeling for what it was: the passing of responsibility for her personal safety from herself to Aoife. That scared her almost as much as Uaithne had.

No doubt her uncle had his reasons.

It was easy to talk to Begu. Perhaps because she said such strange things, perhaps because Hild got the sense she never took people seriously.

Uinniau assumed the earnest face all men used when lying to their friends.

I have a strange kind of face; people trust me. More than that, they see in my face what they want to be there.

Begu was the only person who didn't make her angry. With Begu she didn't have to think.

From the strange, cold distance in which she had placed herself, Hild wondered what he would do if she said she could see into the realm of the dead. He would believe her. They all believed her, no matter what she said.

Partnerships should be equal. You can protect her, yes, but shouldn't she also be able to protect you?

I had seen her vulnerable, now she wanted to see me.

I meant simply to steady her, but she softened into me, almost sagged, and my arm tightened, and my need, and she let herself go so that I was half holding her up with one arm and pulling her pants down with the other.

She should have expected her mother to know she knew.

She turned her head slightly, to examine me out of each eye, as though each saw a different world but only one could be trusted.

Honesty and frankness did not mean the captured bandits were fine folk, or kind, only that they might not murder another in their sleep.

Hild wondered how it must feel to have someone you didn't quite trust make prophecies about what mattered most to you in the world.

She could never be certain of the queen's feelings, but perhaps on this they were of the same mind.

Your mother has built you a place where you can speak your word openly. Now she asks you to use that for her, and for yourself of course.

She'd be best off here with the princess with the slaughter seax.

I can't tell you what is right," she said, "but I can tell you what is expected by others, and by this child. It doesn't matter what she calls you. Mom or Tante or Aud, if legally you are her mother, somewhere inside she will expect you to behave as one. It doesn't matter if this is likely, or even possible, it is what she will expect.

Mother and daughter were both so rarely wrong they thought they could never be.

Promises were useless in the face of torture.