Quotes about Trust
but promise can disappear if you leave it to flounder
— Alice Hoffman
They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.
— Alice Hoffman
Was it possible to know anyone, truly?
— Alice Hoffman
I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.
— Alice Hoffman
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
— Alice Hoffman
Close your eyes and listen, such people advised, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.
— Alice Hoffman
I'm really happy that you're here." This is not an outright lie. No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
— Alice Hoffman
You can always tell a liar, for he will not look at you when he speaks, and often he has white spots on his fingernails, one to mark every lie he's told.
— Alice Hoffman
she wanted to sit in the dark and whisper all of her fears into an ear which would hold every word like a silver shell.
— Alice Hoffman
Love someone and they're yours forever.
— Alice Hoffman
Ben would have done anything for you." "I thought that meant he was an idiot." "No," Maravelle says. "It means you're an idiot.
— Alice Hoffman
She had the ability to spot a liar, except for the lies spoken by someone she loved. That's what had caught her up; she'd been distracted by love, which seemed, at least at the time, to be the truest thing in the world.
— Alice Hoffman