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Quotes About Distrust

Flora hated the phrase "correct me if I'm wrong." In her experience, people only said it when they knew they were right.
~ Kate DiCamillo
What you giving me them shifty-eyed looks for?
~ Kate DiCamillo
I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your face that I don't trust you and can't trust you...
~ Kate Elliott
Show yourself, you dirty, rotten, sneaky, yellow-bellied lizard of a wife-stealer!
~ Kate McMullan
Boy, girl, you just better not try me." He made her swear on the Bible never to tell and never to follow, but still he lay awake a long time. How could he trust everything that mattered to him to a sassy six-year-old? Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
~ Katherine Paterson
It's the ones who don't tell you they are informing," he said, "that you have to worry about.
~ Kati Marton
Today's world is too foul a place for fine and noble instincts.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Once you let a muthafucka slide, they start figure skating." –Source Unknown
~ Keisha Ervin
Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.
~ Kelley Armstrong
No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Sure. You get all slutty with Rafe. You freak out. You cry date rape drug.' - Hayley
~ Kelley Armstrong
As he talked, I thought, "Maybe I'm wrong about the guy." Put him with someone like Anna Gunderson, a nice woman who has suffered a great tragedy, and his empathetic side came out. And then I realized he was faking it.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Are you sure about that? Corey muttered once the were gone. Chloe is nice enough, but that Derek? Real charmer. If anyone busts through that door, he's liable to throw us to them as cannon fodder. I wasn't sure I disagreed.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Chloe) She considers me a friend." (Derek) "Does she? Huh. Never thought friendship started with one girl locking the other— bound and gagged— in a crawl space."
~ Kelley Armstrong
So beware dark places, dark impulses, and betrayals. That last one can't really be avoided, though. Unless I'm the one doing the betraying.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Sorry," I said, hurrying over to him. "Are you--?" As I bent, he tried to snag my leg and yank me down, but I danced back out of reach. "Did you really think I'd fall for that?" I said. "Hoping.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Nicole crumpled—just let her legs give way and fell to the floor, hunched and sobbing. Hayley looked at me. Even Rafe did. Uncertain looks from both of them. I had to admit, Nicole was a good actor. If I hadn't seen her switch from sweet Nicole to raving lunatic Nicole in a heartbeat at the campsite, I might have believed her myself.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Sure, you don't know me that well, but you said it yourself--I get a girl and I back off before I can collect the payoff. I don't need to dose girls." He stopped, "That sounded unbelievably arrogant, didn't it?" "Kinda.
~ Kelley Armstrong
What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Liar. Is it Rafe?" When I hesitated, his hands clenched, jaw clenching with them. "That son of a bitch," he muttered. "This is the part where you get to say 'I told you so.
~ Kelley Armstrong
My heart seized, and I stared as if he were holding out a vial of poison.
~ Kelley Armstrong
As in any insincere relationship, each man responded to shadows.
~ Ken Auletta
you should never believe a politician with simple answers.
~ Ken Follett
Tutti gli uomini sono inaffidabili.
~ Ken Follett