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“Trust is like glass. It takes time to heat and temper, to make it transparent for both parties to see through. But once it’s shattered, there are so many broken pieces on the floor that it’s impossible to put back together. A year may pass, and you’ll step into the kitchen barefoot for a glass of water and get a shard in your heel. And you’ll remember how it got there.”
“Power and wealth can be taken away—and all that’s left is your word. If you don’t have that, then you don’t have anything. He betrayed his word when he betrayed you, so he betrayed himself. There was a chance of redemption by being honest with you, but he chose cowardice instead.”
I walked up to the man in Nelson’s, and he worked so hard not to be suspicious of me that I immediately became suspicious of him. Even when I was right at his table, he refused to acknowledge me, his black coffee sitting there untouched. “Bastien Dupont.” He had no other choice but to look at me. “That’s my name.”
PERIOD!
