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Quotes About Betrayal

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.
~ Natalie Portman
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
~ V. S. Naipaul
Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.
~ Winifred Holtby
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.
~ Alice Walker
Peace had failed her and Ashley had failed her, both in the same day, and it was as if the last crevice in the shell had been sealed, the final layer hardened. She had
~ Margaret Mitchell
Nina," Luke said finally. "Nina was the other traitor." "Yes," Mr. Talbot said.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Evil turns upon itself.
~ Margaret Weis
Fortunately, our friend Raistlin taught me what to watch—" "Raistlin!" Flint puffed. "That pasty-faced, skinny magician. He's more than half charlatan himself. Always sniveling and whining and poking his nose where it doesn't belong. If it weren't for his twin brother looking after him, someone would've put an end to his magic long ago.
~ Margaret Weis
How dare you accuse me of your own failings?" Laurana returned. "I love Elistan. I reverence him.
~ Margaret Weis
For the love of all that is holy, just give me a straight-up, stand-up sword fight! I hate court intrigue and all the closet-hiding, eavesdropping, secret-liaisoning, lying, and manipulating, who's-watching-who-watching-who bastards that bow and scrape and simper as they slip arsenic into your claret. You can't tell your friends from your enemies from one day to the next. —Stephano De Guichen
~ Margaret Weis
homeland." "Not even Sturm?" he couldn't help asking wryly, nettled by her stinging tone. But he was not prepared for the answer. Alhana twisted to face him, whipping around so fast her long black hair flailed his skin. Her face was so pale with anger, it seemed translucent and he could see the veins pulse beneath her skin.
~ Margaret Weis
Sometimes, in the still watches of the night, when he lies in bed beside her, Tanis will find himself thinking of me. He will remember my last words, he will be touched by them. I have given them their happiness. And she must live with the knowledge that I will live always in Tanis's heart. What love they might find together, I have poisoned. My revenge upon them both is complete. Now, have you brought what I sent you for?
~ Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most.
~ Marguerite Duras
Natura deficit, fortuna mutatur, deus omnia cernit. La naturaleza nos traiciona, la fortuna cambia, un dios mira las cosas desde lo alto.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Now Sunny, don't get mad, but …" Rayne begins, her voice trembling. I shoot her an angry glare. "But WHAT, Rayne?" "I, uh, think you've accidentally been turned into a vampire.
~ Mari Mancusi
It's upsetting when the nice bloke you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it's nearly as bad when the bloke that you thought was an unreliable heartbreaker turns out to be uncomplicated and nice.
~ Marian Keyes
I can cope with anything except being lied to. "Protected from the truth" is the worst thing you could do to me. Even if you know you're going to hurt me, I'd prefer the facts.' 'Okay. But –
~ Marian Keyes
May I have the strength to forgive those who've betrayed me.
~ Marianne Williamson
The crack inside your fucking heart is me.
~ Marilyn Manson
The willingness to indulge in ideological thinking - that is, in thinking that by definition is not one's own, which is blind to experience and to the contradictions that arise when broader fields of knowledge are consulted - is a capitulation no one should ever make. It is a betrayal of our magnificent minds and of all the splendid resources our culture has prepared for their use.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Ideological thinking - that is in thinking that is by definition not one's own, which is blind to experience and to the contradictions that arise when broader fields of knowledge are consulted - is a capitulation no one should ever make. It is a betrayal of our magnificent minds and of all the splendid resources our culture has prepared for their use.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
~ Mario Puzo
Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...
~ Mario Puzo
When they come... they come at what you love.
~ Mario Puzo