Quotes About Betrayal

If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago.

treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.

Comparing that shyster to a snake would be a slander to the serpent.

Now it turns out he was having sex with his babysitter, and they're so pissed off they're about to pop. But their anger's not really about Kate, you know? It's about them. They feel betrayed. They put him up on a pedestal, and then he committed the crime of being human. So fuck him, right? Never mind that Kate was two weeks shy of eighteen, and on the make for exactly the kind of affair she had with Drew.

You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?

You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?" "No." "Give it a look. Things weren't quite that crazy, but they were damn close.

Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.

fathers and brothers who would readily kill to avenge those they should have loved far better when the person was alive.

Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Annie

This is a fairy tale of blood and bullets. The story of two women and three men who cannot die. Mostly. Their names are Andy, Nicky, Joe, Booker, and Nile. Nile joins them. Booker left them. This is what happens next...

Some small towns are built on bloody earth and betrayal.

Mimi killed her brother

mean, not for the same reason," Birdy

Shelly wanted her husband home to face the music for which she was the conductor. He had no place of refuge.

It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him?' 'Yeah. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use their flesh and blood as mere chess pieces. Those governments always betray them or let them down in the long run. Nations neglect no men more shamefully than the heroes of their wars.

People always hurt us with their trust, Karla said to me once. The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him.

She was a river, not a stone, and every day was another curve in tomorrow's plain. She was pulled from a family she loved, and that loved her, she thought, until they took the word of a man, a friend and neighbour, who raped her. Years later, when she killed the rapist and went on the run, she severed every connection to her own life. She was runaway tough, a dancing cat, a green witch, and safe from everything but herself, like me.

a king is a bad enemy, a worse friend, and a fatal family relation.

Gli atti più perfidi dei nostri simili colpiscono sempre la parte di noi che desidera amare il mondo. E quando subiamo una violazione, una piccola parte della vergogna che proviamo è quella di appartenere alla razza umana.

You understand and accept it when the bad guys work you over. But when the good guys use handcuffs to chain you to a wall, and then take turns to stomp and kick you, it's the whole system, it's the whole world, that's breaking your bones. And then there was the screaming. The other men, the other prisoners, screaming. Every night.

The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him.