Quotes about Trust

You know I love you. You're the only one. She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

It was true, I took too much for granted; I trusted fate, back then.

Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. They skip town or turn perfidious, or else the drop like flies and then where are you?

I wish I knew what You were up to. But whatever it is, help me to get through it, please. Though maybe it's not Your doing; I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant. I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

You can't lead if no one will follow.

And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.

Aunt Lydia, you are too good," he will beam. Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.