Quotes About Betrayal

It's true we have an affinity for evil. What she told me had occurred in an atmosphere much like that of Troilus and Cressida, in which the faithful are betrayed and the brave are slain. I was reminded of Emerson's "Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Next morning at breakfast he paid Mamma four hundred dollars, cash on the table, for that one night. I watched him count the money out of his wallet, and while I watched I thought what a good thing it was I hadnt told even Mamma about the altar boys those times in the sacristy, behind the stacks of missals. All told, she got twelve hundred dollars for just the last three weeks of June, plus Pullman tickets for both of us back to New Orleans.

She had that look. The one that means, "I can't wait to get this over with and get you out of here and get on with my life." The look that is so hard to believe, so impossible to take in, when it comes from someone who used to love you. The look that always makes you wonder if they ever really did. It's the final look. There's no coming back from it.

We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

But it wasn't okay. It was about as far from okay as you can get. If okay was the earth, then I was standing on Jupiter. I don't know why I said it was okay. For some reason, I was protecting the feelings of the man who had broken my heart yet again.

dear old friends, dear old lovers, do you realize that when you voted for Trump, you voted against me—against the memory of the person I used to be in your lives?

Jesus, Junior said, all these years since Columbus landed and now he's finally decided to fuck me in the ass.

Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis

I hate you! (Artemis) Don't keep saying that, Artie. It's cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron)

There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)

Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

So that's it then. You're just going to be mean to me. (Artemis) Mean to you? Mean? Fuck you, Artemis! I was butchered on the floor by your brother while you watched it happen. Then, when I was finally happy someplace, gods forbid, you tricked me into drinking your blood to bind me to you. And you think I'm mean? Bitch, please, you haven't seen mean yet. (Acheron)

My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)

Honestly? I don't want people around me for two reasons – they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, you're screwed and you spend all your time obsessing on why you didn't see it coming. Or that you did something or didn't do something to cause it. No offense, but I don't like to be hurt and I'd rather just avoid it.(Ravyn)

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

Lovey-dovey bullshit. Now let me tell you about what happens when you betray everything you hold dear and the bitch doesn't return the favor. Oh, wait, you know that lesson already. The problem is you take the leap and you don't know until it's too late to pull back if you're going to land on a foam-covered mattress or jagged rocks where you lie impaled, slowly bleeding and wishing you'd just die already. (Jaden)

What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the 'I'm Acheron's Squire' part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)

But, Bubba? Aren't you and Mark friends? (Nick) Ah, hell no. Mark's not my friend, he's my minion. (Bubba)

Please nothing, she's a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)

You, psycho-ass, and Talon, I'll cover, but not him. (Nick) Psycho-ass? Hmm, I like that. (Zarek) Nick– (Acheron) It's all right, Greek. I would rather die than have his plebeian help anyway. (Valerius) Make that three votes, then. I would rather he died, too. Now all together, let's vote this asshole off the island. (Zarek)

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Damn, Atlantean, what did you do? (Julian) I apparently made a new friend. (Acheron) I made a friend like that once. The bastard almost gutted me. (Julian)