Quotes About Trust

There's something illiberal about the way infants are thrust into the hands of people who have no idea what they're doing, who can only experiment.

But holding Michael had always been like holding a little person, who knew that his feeding would end, who knew that if you were picked up you would be put down, that the comfort came but also went.

I wouldn't have believed her, but she's never dissembled. She doesn't have the energy for it, and she isn't trying to get anywhere, so she has no reason to lie or manipulate people. It's one of

how deeply I had made that promise, and how long I had kept it, never being with a man who might leave me. Always maintaining that control. A promise to oneself never to be left. What sleight of mind.

nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

Sun Moon offered her Juche to him, and he gave her all he had of Songun policy.

When in doubt, always look to your leaders for proper behavior.

My father said, "See, my mouth said that, but my hand, my hand was holding yours. If your mother ever must say something like that to me, in order to protect the two of you, know that inside, she and I are holding hands. And if someday you must say something like that to me, I will know it's not really you. That's inside. Inside is where the son and the father will always be holding hands.

She and I were storytellers. Swapping stories constituted our good times. That's what sustained our marriage until, I guess, stories weren't enough.

I was terrified, on the verge of crying. My father said, "See, my mouth said that, but my hand, my hand was holding yours. If your mother ever must say something like that to me, in order to protect the two of you, know that inside, she and I are holding hands. And if someday you must say something like that to me, I will know it's not really you. That's inside. Inside is where the son and the father will always be holding hands." He reached out and ruffled my hair.

My wife is the most beautiful woman in her housing block. When I look into her eyes, I know exactly what she's thinking. I know what she's going to say before she says it. That's the definition of love, ask any old-timer." The

Commander Ga went on, "I know you pretended to be asleep one morning to give me more time to study you, to allow me to see the knot in your collarbone where someone had hurt you. You let me see the scars on your knees, scars that tell me you once knew real work. You wanted me to know the real you.

What happened?" Buc asked him. "I told her the truth about something," Ga answered. "You've got to stop doing that," Buc said. "It's bad for people's health.

I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

And your parents, believe me—I don't care what kind of relationship you've got with them—they'll take you up on that offer. You share that sandwich with them—are you hearing me?—you share that glory sandwich with them and they'll love you forever.

If we act safe while it's safe for us to be dangerous, we're not taking advantage of being in love, and we could ruin it that way.

With your Social Security number in the wind, whoever finds it—or, more likely, whoever buys it on one of the many black-market information exchanges on the deep web—holds the keys to every part of your life. What that means—plain and simple—is that you're going to need an efficient way to keep one eye over your shoulder, all the time.

Watch me like a vulture watches a fat mammal that is limping across the floor of a rocky canyon with its tongue out even though I'm your friend who you would never eat.

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

If you know your mom is a great killer, and you think of your mom as a great killer, and you know she would kill for you, not just metaphorically, but really end lives for you, without hesitation, you don't want to make her sad and worried because how can you repay her for all the things she's willing to do? You can't.

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

To your friends, you're like a trash bag they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out.