Quotes About Betrayal

I am so ashamed before my friends—to be known to be left by the one who supposedly knew me best, each hour is a room of shame, and I am swimming, swimming holding my head up, smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed, like being naked with the clothed, or being a child, having to try to behave while hating the terms of your life.

Maybe I'm half over who he was, but not who I thought he was, and not over the wound, sudden deathblow as if out of nowhere, though it came from the core of our life together.

A woman wronged is an enemy forever.

Michael Connelly (The Drop, 2011)

We'd known enough girls jilted by Americans promising marriage and plane tickets. Two girls in my neighborhood had babies by men who had returned to the United States and left false addresses. The faces of their mixed-race kids declared their humiliation to everyone.

Friends change toward the ill person, some revealed in their strange and beautiful kindness and some exposed in their utter, ugly selfishness.

Maybe I feel betrayed by the woman inside of me who can't bring herself to do this thing. Or maybe I feel betrayed by my mother, for not devoting herself to me and creating whatever loving memories must be created in a child to make her want to repeat the process again.

Before her body is found floating in her Jacuzzi, publicist to the stars Lindsey Alexander had few friends, but plenty of lovers. To her ex-friend Claudia, she was a ruthless, backstabbing manipulator. But even Claudia is shocked by Lindsey's startling final note: It was fun while it lasted.

Love can die in many ways, most of them far more terrible than physical death.

One of the three points of my childhood code — which is something of a key to this book — was 'Never betray a friend.' That might imply that friendship was important to me: and so it was, to me and to Davy, too. We believed in deep and genuine friendship, and we held our friends and our families very dear and were intensely loyal to them.

I've found it's never the animals you have to worry about, Miki. It's the humans.

Take your winnings and go, feline." "Where did the love go?" Gwen pouted. "It went with our money," Nevin muttered.

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

I've never trusted anyone all the time. It's the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

It is foolish to reply on people who can betray and fail you in time of trouble. Only God is our reliable help and protection

There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.