Quotes About Betrayal

Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.

Like the dandelion clocks, all blown and dispersed on the wind, my life has evaporated into the emptiness of a dream; for which I blame my betrayer, that dubious stranger wearing the mask of a once-loved face.

I said I wanted to see her. 'You can't.' He turned the key, dropped it into his pocket, threw a pistol down on the table. 'She's dead.' A knife went through me. All other deaths in the world were outside; this one was in my body, like a bayonet, like my own.

When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.

His few friends and his former teachers might be watched, as well as his brothers and those dearest to him. The entire city, a dragnet. And he was already in it. He had to slip though its meshes. But by now he was really done in.

All those boys and girls out there, once they'd passed through the Hitler Youth and the Labor Service and the army, they were like the children in the saga, children who'd been raised by wild animals to rip apart and devour their own mothers.

Such lies were a lot better, less hurtful than the truth would have been.

The Rosie Gilmour thrillers The Dead Won't Sleep To Tell the Truth Screams in the Dark Betrayed A Cold Killing Rough Cut Kill Me Twice

It was the emotional equivalent of driving a knife into someone's heart, then viciously twisting it to do even more damage.

Her smile faded. "Do you know the worst thing about it? I forgot him. Daemon was a friend, and I forgot him. That Winsol, before I was…he gave me a silver bracelet. I don't know what happened to it. I had a picture of him. I don't know what happened to that either. And then he gave everything he had to help me, and when it was done, everyone walked away from him as if he didn't matter.

She stared at him for a long moment. Then she put her hand in his . . . and broke his heart.

W-what are you?" Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.

he was the friend who would become an enemy in order to remain a friend. 3

But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her.

Words lie. Blood doesn't.

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly

when joy betrays you I do not count your life alive a corpse is more alive be as rich as you like be absolute if your joy goes I wouldn't buy you for a shadow of smoke

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

I've worked very hard, you know," she confided to him, "and I've planted some kind of-I've been lucky enough, I guess, to plant a star-and then people wanted to either get in the act or else they wanted to rob me emotionally or financially, whatever. And then walk away and it's always lonely

the wall, over by the door, where Liam threw a knife

As I look back on my life, it saddens me to acknowledge that some of my most painful wounds were inflicted by religious people — Gods people.

Don't blame God for the behavior of the people who have wounded you. I understand the desperate desire to run from them, but not from Him.

Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.