Richelle Mead Quotes

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Trust makes way for treachery.

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

I would rather betray others, than have others betray me

We wouldn’t want to live in a world where we couldn’t be conned. Because, in effect, we would then be living in a world where we mistrusted or refused to trust anyone.

I have trust issues.

It is very difficult to trust anyone and I always find that hard in relationships.

Every fight could be my last.

People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.

If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well,” the Marquess took September’s hand in hers and very gently kissed it. “We are. Oh, how alike we are! I feel very warmly towards you, and I only want to protect you, as I wish someone had protected me. Come, September, look out the window with me. It’s not a difficult thing. A show of faith, let’s call it.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that.

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!