“Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.”
“To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there’s nothing there.”
“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”
“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone s hand and setting the very point to your heart.”
“Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”
“And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you d singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning? Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. God, Bones...some of that was depraved. I ll take that as a compliment. He closed the distance between us. I love you. Don t be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support.”
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.”
“Just trust me, Nina.” “I wouldn’t trust you to tie my shoes without stealing the laces, Kaz.”
“Only those you trust can betray you.”
“If there is one trait that your brand must speak of, it is trust.”
“Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—” “Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?” “No!” “Me neither,” Leo admitted.”
“Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds”
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
“Nico drank from the chalice, then offered it to Jason. You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me? Frank wasn t sure what Nico was talking about, but Jason didn t hesitate. He took the cup and drank.”
“That s how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don t have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”