#distrust

What do I need to do to get you to trust me?   What do you want from me?”   He yells. I steel myself and look up into his panicked eyes and fight the pull I feel at coming in contact with those sapphires again.   “Nothing! I don’t want anything from you!”   I shout out the biggest lie I have ever told in my entire life.   Connor’s eyes widen at my words and his face falls, every ounce of fire gone from his gaze.   He backs away then smiles weakly at me. “Well, Merry Fucking Christmas Nina, because you have it all anyway. ↗

— Devon Herrera

#misconceptions #life

Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#distrustful #everdeen #katniss #manipulative #violent

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#idle-minds #idleness #suspicion #business

A usurper always distrusts the whole world. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#distrusts #whole #world

The world order needs a major overhaul. ↗

— George Soros

#distrustte #partisan #philanthropy #age

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#disappointment #distrust #failure #attitude

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#distrust #love #silence #love

It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#distrust #towns #nature

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning. ↗

— Carmen DeSousa

#happy-ever-after #novel #romance #tragedy #romance-novels

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ↗

— Franz Boas

#bane #civilization #disease #distrust #modern