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Quotes About Betrayal

she knows, better than most, that there is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry.
~ Alain de Botton
She'd been prepared to lose Kenji to leprosy, but not to this. Not to anger and hatred - a hatred which had infected her in turn, for she was possessed by an incendiary fury which she could not imagine would ever be extinguished.
~ Alan Brennert
He was training a new generation of Jedi. There was no one else left to do it, so he took the burden on himself. Everything was going good, until one boy, an apprentice, turned against him and destroyed it all. Everything Luke had worked toward: gone. Luke felt responsible. He walked away from everything.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Han Solo," came the clipped voice of the gang leader, "you are a dead man.
~ Alan Dean Foster
A certain type—he knew them all too well from years of experience as a detective, he knew how they acted, how they spoke, how their minds worked. These were people who would do anything to win at what they saw as the game of life, who had no allegiance to anyone or anything beyond themselves, who were gifted liars, who could scheme their way into almost anyone's confidence, then betray them without hesitation.
~ Alan Furst
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz
Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.
~ Alan Moore
When it's done, only our enemies leave roses.
~ Alan Moore
is that what happens to us? a life of conflict with no time for friends ... so that when it's done, only our enemies leave roses.
~ Alan Moore
Fair enough, you have managed to successfully swindle me, and so I will never work for you again.
~ Alan Moore
They were your friends? Yes, they were my friends. And they will leave you to suffer alone? Now I see it. And until this, were they friends you could trust? I could trust them. I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law? Tell me, were they such friends? And now they leave you alone? Did you not see it before? I saw it.
~ Alan Paton
los celos, cansados de ser feroces, vuelven a la matriz de la que alguna vez los desterró el rencor: la matriz del desamparo.
~ Alan Pauls
Or you can make it easy on yourself," Skulduggery said. "You can tell us where Abyssinia is.
~ Derek Landy
Oh, we know Damocles from way back," Onosa said, waving her hand. "You do?" "Yes, indeed, Valkyrie. We're old friends. Practically. Almost. We tried to kill him once, but I'm sure he's forgotten about that. It was ages ago." "Why did you try to kill him?" Skulduggery asked. "Because we knew him." "A good enough reason as any.
~ Derek Landy
Yes. That's why I left the Necromancer Order. It's why I chose to fight alongside the man who'd murdered me and my family. It's why I fought on the same side as the man who murdered … well, you know what I'm referring to, don't you, Skulduggery? It's also why I betrayed Abyssinia. That's not over yet, by the way. The consequences of that partnership? It's not over for you.
~ Derek Landy
I was Skulduggery Pleasant's partner," said Crepuscular. "And he left me to die.
~ Derek Landy
So when the time comes, when you have served your purpose, I swear to you I'm gonna kill you for free." And with that, Billy-Ray Sanguine disappeared into the ground. Then he popped his head back up. "Or at least half price." And he was gone again.
~ Derek Landy
Skulduggery Pleasant, Playing With Fire, The Faceless Ones, Dark Days, Mortal Coil, Death Bringer, Kingdom of the Wicked, Last Stand of Dead Men, The Dying of the Light, Resurrection, Midnight and Bedlam
~ Derek Landy
A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.
~ Derek Raymond
He still didn't believe we could do it to him, and left with the assured insolence of a credit card presenting itself at the thin mouth of hell.
~ Derek Raymond
it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.
~ DESCARTES
Long as you say what people want to hear; you're a real one, but when you start speaking truth, they turn fake real quick. -MillYentei_D.Y.
~ Deshawn Yeldell
This morning I woke up and pulled all the knives out of my back, I then asked God to Please protect me from my enemies. -MillYentei_D.Y
~ Deshawn Yeldell
They were participating in a war where father would fight sons, brother would fight brother, uncle would fight nephew, friend would fight friend. This was a war that would mark the end not just of one household but of an entire civilization.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik