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Quotes About Betrayal

I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Hope, the great deceiver, seduced her that morning.
~ Rabih Alameddine
When it was day they came into my house and said, `We shall only take the smallest room here.' They said, `We shall help you in the worship of your God and humbly accept only our own share in his grace'; and then they took their seat in a corner and they sat quiet and meek. But in the darkness of night I find they break into my sacred shrine, strong and turbulent, and snatch with unholy greed the offerings from God's altar.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
A man need not necessarily be ugly or poor to be cheated of his wife's love, but he is sure to lose it if he is too gentle.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Eve: She told me last! Shane: Boyfriend! Michael: Landlord! Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!
~ Rachel Caine
She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way: men who had claimed one minute to be dying of love for her were openly insulting her the next
~ Rachel Cusk
Music is a betrayer of secrets; it is more treacherous even than dreams, which at least have the virtue of being private.
~ Rachel Cusk
Shut up, Nick." She yanked the boa free. "You were only out to humiliate me." "Bullshit." "You used me to get back at Henry." He rocked back on his heels and his gaze narrowed. "I never used you. I told you not to worry and that I'd take care of you, but you looked at me like I was some kind of rapist and left with Henry.
~ Rachel Gibson
If that's what you do to people you love, I can't imagine what you have in store for people you hate.
~ Rachel Gibson
I gave you so much of myself," I say, "and you wasted me.
~ Rachel Harrison
Please, Orma, I've already gotten you in so much trouble—" "That I can't possibly get into more. Take it." He wouldn't stop glaring at me until I'd put the earring back on its cord. "You are all that's left of Linn. Her own people won't even say her name. I—I value your continued existence." I could not speak; he had pierced me to my very heart.
~ Rachel Hartman
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
~ Lucien Bouchard
General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
~ Toussaint Louverture
Shawn Spears, he is a scumbag. He decided, after years of friendship with one of the greatest men to ever live Cody Rhodes, to waffle him with a chair. No one should be laying a finger on that man, he is a saint.
~ Maxwell Jacob Friedman
If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
~ Kresley Cole
Teddy Riley was telling everyone I was his female rapper, but he never came through. And Michael Bivens promised me all kinds of stuff but then he told me to wait.
~ Da Brat
I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.
~ Camille Claudel
It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.
~ Sophie B. Hawkins
We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
~ Carlton Cuse
I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
~ Aaron Douglas
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
~ Bruno Schulz
I've had a few matches with Kevin Owens. I can recollect him taking advantage of me somehow underhandedly and me being walked and trampled all over and allowing it to happen.
~ Neville
Mad-Dog used to be Patsy Walker's beau, Buzz Baxter, but transformed himself into Mad-Dog to get even with his ex and her friends, the Avengers, after she became Hellcat.
~ Kate Leth
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
~ Oscar Levant