Jodi Picoult Quotes

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

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

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

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

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.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

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

For years we have been giving their political leadership the benefit of the doubt, and now only doubt remains.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

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

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.

Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.

The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.

It's become hard for me to trust people and though I'm the type to go, 'everybody is born good,' you come to question that.

There's certain people in your life you realise aren't exactly the people that you thought they were.

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.

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.