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Quotes About Distrust

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
~ Holly Black
Some promises aren't worth keeping.
~ Holly Black
Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It's not like you're actually currently betraying him.
~ Holly Black
Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?
~ Holly Black
All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.
~ Holly Black
Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you.
~ Holly Black
You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.
~ Holly Black
There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked, from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. Had fingers made for picking pockets, a tongue for lying, and a shriveled cherry pit for a heart. If her shadow had been one of those magic ones, she was pretty sure even that thing would have run away.
~ Holly Black
Is something going on?" - Celia "No!" Aaron and Jasper said at the same time. "Sure, that's not suspicious or anything.
~ Holly Black
That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that.
~ Holly Black
Looking past Lucien and Elisabet, Tana finally saw Aidan. He was underdressed, slouching against a wall in a black silk shirt over black jeans. Tana wondered if Midnight had picked out those clothes for him and then wondered if they'd been borrowed from Rufus. Steeling herself, she walked over to him, giving a wide berth to any other vampire she saw. "Tana!" Aidan said, looking incredibly pleased to see her right up to the moment when she punched him in the face.
~ Holly Black
If anyone can get me through tonight, it's him. He's good at putting those around him at ease, even when they ought to know better. Unfortunately, what I am good at is getting under people's skin. But at least I am also good at lying.
~ Holly Black
Mortals are liars,' the Unseelie queen says with a snort. 'That doesn't mean everything they say is a lie,' I return.
~ Holly Black
Jude, you keep smiling a pleasant smile in front of Madoc, but all I can see anymore is bared teeth.
~ Holly Black
Of course I like books!' Justin said, looking up. He didn't know how to explain. He'd started library school to get Linda to Sandlin, but he actually liked it. It felt good to carefully organize the books so that other people would know what they were getting themselves into. 'I've always liked books. I just don't trust them.
~ Holly Black
I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either. Friendships suck.
~ Holly Black
Even without liars, there can still be lies.
~ Holly Black
She's right to be worried. I just declared war.
~ Holly Black
Go ahead and tell them if you want, but you should know this—someone you trust has already betrayed you.
~ Holly Black
The High King makes a nonchalant gesture. 'Jude likes to suppose the worst of both her enemies and her allies. Her reward is occasionally being wrong about us.' 'Hard to remember an occasion of that,' I say to him under my breath. He lifts a single brow.
~ Holly Black
his kindness was jarring and made me wonder what he wanted in return for it. I was used to tricks, to games.
~ Holly Black
There is no more trusting in women.
~ Homer
Misfortune is a kind of talisman whose virtue consists in its power to confirm our original nature; in some men it increases their distrust and malignancy, just as it improves the goodness of those who have a kind heart.
~ Honore de Balzac
Calm and smiling faces and placid brows covered sordid interests, expressions of friendship were a lie, and more than one man was less distrustful of his enemies than of his friends.
~ Honore de Balzac