Trust Quotes

“You’re not going to fight me, Captain. This is the right call. You know it.”
She marched me off the bridge and into the brilliant white passageway. “You think I’m just going to trust you’ll let me go?” I asked, getting a painful nudge in the back.
“You don’t have a choice.” She was right about that. “Relax. I got your back, Cale.”
“You’ve got a pistol in my back is what you’ve got.”
“Just like old times.”
Trust her? Well, shit.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trust

“I don’t know if I can.”

I splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. “It’s easier if you don’t think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can’t touch you. And before long, you’ll forget what you were worried about.”

Her lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. “Is that what you do?”

“It works.” Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed.

~ Caleb”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trust

“I see you too.” It wasn’t fair. “Count the stars, One.” “I’m not afraid.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Trust