Tom Perrotta Quotes

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

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

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

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

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.

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

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

For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot of people weren't there for me when I needed them. So I have become a little shell shocked. Subsequently almost paranoid and frightened of people now. Maybe I'm losing out in meeting some marvelous people, but I am doing the only thing I can to save my spirit.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.