“The question is: do you trust me? Sometimes.”

—  Alastair Reynolds, book Pushing Ice

Bella smiled. “That’s exactly the right attitude: trust your leaders, but be careful not to trust them too much.”
Source: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 27 (p. 397)

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