Quotes About Betrayal

His cruelty was in his absence.

It was in these moments, I knew, that my father loved my mother most. When my mother was broken and helpless, when her hard shell was stripped away and her spite and brittleness couldn't serve her. It was a sad dance of two people who were starving to death in each other's arms. Their marriage an X that forever joined murderer to victim.

Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts who finds heartmeat delicious but not rare who sucks the juices drop by drop and bloody-chinned grins like a God.

If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.

You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. I give it to him straight, just like it come to me. And it seem to come to me from the trees.

It's worse than unwelcome, said Samuel. The Africans don't even see us. They don't even recognize us as the brothers and sisters they sold.

There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

Happiness was just a trick in your case.

That politicians who smiled at us and kissed our babies blue eyes shining with triumph well knew we were falling into our graves kicked by them as they counted our votes.

You a lowdown dog is what's wrong, I say. It's time to leave you and enter into the Creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

I remember feeling very angry at Betty Friedan. AB: What? Why? Well... she hated housework and wanted women to be independent, but then she's hire other women to do her housework.

Lady Wingfield had confided to a friend that the Queen was a loose woman.

Clytemnestra

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

I often wonder if it's the curse of old age, to feel young in your heart while your body betrays you.

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

My cousin tried to kill me today, he said. He realized that his voice held an edge of hysteria. She nearly succeeded. But I guess that's fair, since I was trying to kill her at the time.

Musgrave and Lawley were alone with the dead body of their friend, whose masquerading dress had become his shroud.

Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.

Grom-gil-Gorm," she said softly as she rode between Laithlin and Yarvi. "Breaker of Swords." Mother Isriun's horse shied back out of her way. "Maker of Orphans." Thorn reined in beside him, his frowning face lit red by the blazing light of her elf-bangle, and she leaned from her saddle to whisper. "Your death comes.

We'll see. Thanks for drawing your sword for me. I always had you down as a man to back the favourite.' 'So did I. But for a moment up there you reminded me of your father.' Pale-as-Snow planted his own boot on the wall beside Calder's. 'I remembered how it felt to follow a man I admire.' Calder snorted. 'I wouldn't get used to that feeling.' 'Don't worry, it's gone already.