Jay Asher Quotes

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

I've had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people - whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.

The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.

I don't mind someone saying I'm not good enough. It hurts more when someone says you're faking an injury.

When you trust, and you open your heart, and you think - well, maybe not heart - when you put down your guard and you let someone in and they betray you, that guard goes up really hard.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

I can never quite trust anybody anymore.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart