Quotes About Trust

For what reason would I lie to one I so love?

The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.

I don't think it's foolish. I don't think love is ever foolish.

what John likes best are the small and undramatic moments that make for a kind of easy comfort, for a feeling of being grounded in a relationship.

People who don't feel cared for are not always comfortable being cared for.

Oh, what I want to do is hand my life over to someone else. That's all. And they could rearrange everything into something that would make sense.

Here is another thing I like about a good friendship, the go-aheadness of it all. You don't have to knock to come in the door. You don't have to ask to look in a refrigerator. You want coffee? Pour some. These friendships, formed by time, are getting so rare. I worry about that. "How

Deep inside is a voice wanting to taunt her, to tell her she is undeserving of it, to not trust it because it won't last, good things never last. Or it tells her she will fuck up and lose everything. But she's gotten better at tuning that voice out.

things that suggest themselves in sleep almost always work out.

someone had her back, whether he was right with her or not. If he was in the world, he was watching over her. Nola comes closer

but how nice it was for that brief period of time to feel like someone had her back, whether he was right with her or not. If he was in the world, he was watching over her.

Don't ask so many questions. You always ask so many questions. Don't do that. Just...accept things. ...Don't ask questions and don't look back. Believe me you'll be much more content.

Go about your business in the best way you know how, and love will find you. You know what they say: It's like a butterfly—you do better letting it land on you than trying to capture it.

Nothing will bring lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart

What's the point in loving anything when it will just change or be taken away?" I asked. And she said, "The point in loving is only that. And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing, Cece. I wish you would believe me.

Every mother has the assurance that her baby will love her. But a baby has no assurance at all of being loved in return.

how accepting children can be—must be.

The only thing wrong in making love was being intimate with one you in fact did not love.

Funny how important those birds have become to her. But people need something to depend on. They need something to love.

Arthur feels an impulse to tell her he'd love to have her company anytime. He feels like she's the smallest little plant, dying from lack of water. But then he realizes he must tread carefully in this regard. People who don't feel cared for are not always comfortable being cared for.

A friend of hers once described such acts of kindness as hold knots on life's climbing rope.

all of our lives, we long to know what our future will be. It is a mercy we do not know.

I made him ricotta pancakes with pecan syrup for breakfast. And he ate them, knowing he'd be dumping me right afterward. What kind of person does that?

Gee, color her suspicious, but if he kept this up, she was going to start thinking he wasn't a mall security guard at all.