Quotes About Belief

It seems hopeless to fight something so vast. It seems ridiculous to believe we can win.

that's one good thing about being obedient and faithful and good. People think you will never surprise them.

She had a way of making everyone around her feel as though every impossible thing was possible.

We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.

She didnt have to command me, Jude. She didnt have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you. Page 300

I wanted so badly to believe that being in Dain's service was an honor, that he was someone worth following. That's what comes of hungering for something: You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.

Believe what you can handle believing

You're going to get all the things you think you can't have," she says quietly, reaching out to rub red lipstick from my cheek. "You just don't know it yet.

Looking back, Val knew she had a habit of trusting too much, being too passive, too willing to believe the best of others and the worst of herself.

But how did she make you agree?' I demand. 'She had no power. She could pretend to be me, but she couldn't force you-' He puts his head in his long-fingered hands. 'She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.' And I trusted Taryn.

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it.

I had a tutor who wanted me to believe that mercy is a kind of sorrow and that since evil is the motive of sorrow, evil is also the motive of mercy. I thought that my tutor was old and cruel, and maybe he was—but now I think he was also right.

The more they get away with, the more they believe they're entitled to have.

I wanted to show you that you could trust me, that you didn't need to give me orders for me to do things. I wanted to show you that I believed you'd thought it all through. But that's no way to rule. And it's not really even trust, when someone can order you to do it anyway.

When a man tells you he's going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they're always right.

Mortals are liars,' the Unseelie queen says with a snort. 'That doesn't mean everything they say is a lie,' I return.

I tell people everything. People only believe what they can handle. That's how I know who to trust.

She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

LET ME TELL YOU something about unicorns—they're faeries and faeries aren't to be trusted. Read your storybooks. But maybe you can't get past the rainbows and pastel crap. That's your problem.

Even if you are completely delusional, we still have to work out your delusion, right? An imaginary problem needs an imaginary solution.

Let me tell you something about unicorns—they're faeries and faeries aren't to be trusted.

You cannot believe he males a better High King than I would." I look Madoc in the eyes, and my mouth makes the words before I can snatch them back. "Maybe I believe that it's time for Elfhame to be ruled by a queen.

Were you a happy child?' 'I was magic. How could I fail to be?