“We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?”

“All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.”

“…he knew there wasn't a soul in the mob he could trust – except perhaps Dallow. That didn't matter. You couldn't make mistakes when you trusted nobody.”

“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”

“All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?”

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

“It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.”

“If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.”

“Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.”

“If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words.”