Quotes About Trust

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

You can't tell your story to everybody, I said. Maybe you can only tell it to one person.

Among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious.

I knew then, she said, that he was a liar, that for all his reportage and his honesty he was determined to keep himself untouched, to take without giving, to hoard himself like a greedy child.

She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way: men who had claimed one minute to be dying of love for her were openly insulting her the next

And saying you love him is the same as saying you don't want to know what he really thinks of you. If you talked to him,' she said, 'you would find out.

Puede haber amor sin celos, pero no sin temores» MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

I remember always being frightened that one day she would eat me

Mothers are such liars,' he said. 'Language is all they have. They fill you up with language if you let them.

He put out his hand and I felt his fingers circling my arm. The hand was solid, heavy, like a moulded marble hand from antiquity. I looked at it and at the dark woollen material of his coat sleeve and the mounded expanse of his shoulder. A flooding feeling of relief passed violently through me, as if I was the passenger in a car that had finally swerved away from a sharp drop.

Only a wild animal doesn't trust anybody,' Tony said.

Supongo, añadí, que esa es una definición del amor, creer en algo que solo dos personas pueden ver.

So much power lies in the ability to see how willing other people are to give it to you.

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see, and in this case it proved to be an impermanent basis for living.

Imagino que essa seja uma das definições do amor, falei, a crença em algo que só vocês dois conseguem ver

suppose it's a bit like marriage, he said. You build a whole structure on a period of intensity that's never repeated. It's the basis of your faith and sometimes you doubt it, but you never renounce it because too much of your life stands on that ground.

The trouble was, I had the dumb loyalty of a dog.

Like love, I said, being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again.

So much of power lies in the ability to see how willing other people are to give it to you.

Como en el amor, continué, que te entiendan crea el temor a que no vuelvan a entenderte jamás.

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.

Most people need some sort of illusion to help 'em along … but that knocks one pretty hard, doesn't it?

Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.