“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.”

— Juliet Marillier , book Wildwood Dancing

Variant: If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
Source: Wildwood Dancing

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New Zealand fiction writer 1948

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