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Quotes About Betrayal

Kozorogi, što me nisi poštedeo toga! Što si mi pomogao da srušim spomenik od zlata, od mesa, od mese?ine. Euridiko sliko, Euridiko senko, Euridiko — kurvo kamenjarko!
~ Danilo Kiš
What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn't feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend.
~ Danka V.
Galeotto was the book and he that wrote it; that day we read in it no farther.
~ Dante Alighieri
C'est le destin de tout écrivain que d'être un traitre.
~ Dany Laferrière
She is shaking, nearly dizzy, alarmed by her own cruelty. It is the first time she has ever felt within herself something so awful - this enormous capacity for betrayal.
~ Daphne Kalotay
It was nine French fries because I counted. Was it a lie that Aja said he ate ten French fries? Did a small lie like that matter? Bree didn't look at me or talk to me again all day. The Earth sun was not shining inside me. It was as dark as midnight in there. That evening, I was surprised Bree still came over to talk about the party. She frowned and said, "Well, we still have to figure out the food." Mom and Dad were in the study working on the loud-soft problem. The
~ Darcy Pattison
An enemy can seek to harm us, but an enemy can't betray us. Betrayal can only come at the hands of someone we love and trust. That's why betrayal is so utterly painful. What is done to the heart is devastating.
~ Darlene Zschech
Jesus understands the hurt you feel. He experienced denial and betrayal at the deepest level.
~ Darlene Zschech
Never regret the vultures of friendship.
~ Darren Huston
They who turn their backs towards other men laugh at their ambitions
~ Darren Huston
I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.
~ Darren Shan
I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.
~ Darren Shan
Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.
~ Darren Shan
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
~ Dashiell Hammett
Two tongues in their mouths, the one they use to promise and the one they use to lie.
~ Dashka Slater
It had been Shole and Mearn who had come to the Leéb Place and abducted Thaïle and stolen— Her baby! She screamed to see the full extent of the College's treachery. Not only her goodman! Her baby, too! With a howl of pain and fury, she gathered her powers for vengeance.
~ Dave Duncan
Oh what foul traitor in your midst could have called such a pestilence down upon the very, er, Shakrathly presence of his own beloved Emperor! For shame!
~ Dave Stone
The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.
~ David Anthony Durham
You see, hannibal said, I happily give wine to my friends, but a man who drinks my wine and then rejects my friendship is a thief.
~ David Anthony Durham
In that city, if people caught the faintest whiff that you were in trouble, that you were a victim, your friends disappeared faster than a bowl of punch at an AA convention.
~ David Archer
Time must be a woman because she was the greatest and most subtle traitor of all!
~ David Archer
Things have a way of taking on the lives of those around them, so when someone in the house betrays you, it's a betrayal multiplied in perpetuity: your favorite book turns to drivel; coffee in space-related paraphernalia, undrinkable; couches, unsittable. And when the betrayer walks out the front door for the last time, you'll have to dig a tunnel under the house, or exit through the chimney, because fuck that door.
~ David Arnold
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
~ James Baldwin
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
~ James Baldwin