Sarah Dessen Quotes

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

It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

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.

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Nothing keeps its promise.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

I cannot guarantee anything.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

I'm a loyal guy. I'm a man of my word, and I assumed other people would be that way. That's just not the case in life.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

When someone says, 'I trusted you,' the phrase is loaded with all the actions that came from that trust: the person comes almost to embody trust, just as anyone who's always hustling can only be called a hustler.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.