In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not
completely trust anyone.

There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man

Trust is harder than friendship.

When men hunted each other to eat, there could be no trust, and trust was what let even the wildest men work together.

He didn’t trust them. But he did trust their greed.

He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.

My parents did not trust me there was a lot of mistrust…There was this skepticism about white people because of what they had gone through. And I didn't associate with any white people except when I got to junior high.

...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.

Such were the brittle threads of a relationship built not on trust but on a slurry of fear, mutual codependence, and self-interest.

He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy.

You can’t trust him.