How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"We didn't lie to you. You do have the Flare." (2.14)
Nope, that's a lie. Thomas doesn't have the Flare; he's immune to it. GAHH.
Quote #2
"I don't think it was a lie at all. By completing the Trials, by arriving at the safe haven, you helped us collect more data. And because of that there will be a cure. Eventually. For everyone." (3.9)
See, this is how WICKED works: they tell half-truths. Well, we have a shocker for you: half-truths are also half-lies…and half-lies are pretty much full lies—which makes WICKED a very, very annoying entity to deal with.
Quote #3
Again, everything rang true, made sense. Fit in with the memories that had come back to him in recent weeks. And yet his distrust of Rat Man and WICKED still sprinkled it all with doubt. (3.14)
Here we finally see Thomas coming to his senses. Despite everything he's been told that sounds true, he can't actually trust anything WICKED says—not even if his memories are telling him that WICKED is telling the truth.
Quote #4
Thomas knew that no matter how sincere Rat Man sounded, it had to be a trick. Everything was a trick. (5.9)
You can sound as sincere as you want, but that doesn't mean you're telling the truth. (It just means that you sound truthy.) Rat Man Janson is a master of lying, so Thomas is being a smart feller here for being apprehensive.
Quote #5
"Don't trust them. Do not trust them. Only me and Chancellor Paige, Thomas. Ever. No one else." (7.29)
Brenda warns Thomas about how dangerous basically everyone is, but really, how does Thomas know to trust her about this? Thomas takes gambles when he puts his trust into certain people; luckily, Brenda is a good person to trust.
Quote #6
"I was acting. Jorge and I are immune—we've known it for a long time." (11.43)
Despite Brenda being on Thomas's side, she's still a liar. Gah, everyone's a liar. Are some of these liars better people than others? Why or why not?
Quote #7
Thomas decided to trust Gally. Maybe they'd never like each other, but they had the same enemy, which put them on the same team. (26.4)
Gally's Thomas's mortal enemy, but after Thomas learns what WICKED did to Gally, it becomes easier for him to see Gally's pain. For Thomas to eventually trust Gally is risky, but again, the chances he takes in this book are all a risk-reward kind of deal, and most of them pay off.
Quote #8
He searched Teresa's face and saw a pain unlike any he'd ever seen before. She was telling the truth. (44.19)
Trust is something you can often see in someone's physical expressions. Thomas knows that Teresa is telling the truth when he sees her genuine pain.
Quote #9
"And I promise that we're the good guys. I don't know what the Right Arm has planned, but I do know that part of it includes getting all of us out of Denver." (47.4)
Come on, the Right Arm can be seen to be just as bad as WICKED. "Good guys" don't really exist in a book like this, so promising to be a good guy is just a flat-out lie.
Quote #10
He trusted Brenda, and she trusted the chancellor. All he could do now was move. (63.11)
Trusting Brenda and therefore Chancellor Paige is Thomas's biggest but best gamble: because he does this, he's able to reach paradise. It's like going to a roulette table and putting all of your money on red. Big money—big money.