Quotes About Betrayal

Perhaps you can bring out better in them? Eugenides shook his head. I pulled the carpet out from under them very thoroughly. They will not cross me, but they won't love me, either. I am not Eddis. People do not hand me their hearts. Sounis wondered. He would have given Eugenides his heart on a toothpick, if asked. He remembered Ion's obvious wince at being rated somewhat less significant to Gen than his boots.

If she pardons people because she loves them, someday someone that she loves will betray her and all of Attolia with her. A queen must make sacrifices for the common good.

Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.

You don't know what I mean. She is so strong, and you assume that strength has no end, no breaking point. You and Teleus are among the few she still trusts enough to love, and you say yes, she should have you tortured and killed. What were you thinking?

Everybody is always willing to throw someone else's country to the dogs.

Damn him, damn him, damn him.

Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king.

A liar thinks everyone else lies? ... A thief thinks everyone else is stealing from him? ... A philanderer thinks everyone else is philandering.

The king's attendants remained, digesting the fact that their helpless, inept king had promised his wife to destroy the house of Erondites in six months and had done it in ninety-eight days.

The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell.

Later, lying in bed, I wonder if Dena knows about her father. I decide that she probably does, and I imagine how I would feel if I knew that my father was unfaithful to my mother. Then I remember Richard, and I think that marriage might not mean much to Dena. I can't really blame her: She learned about marriage from her parents, just as I did from mine. For all I know, sleeping with Richard is just Dena's way of trying not to be her mother.

you're the liar - Mimi Force

It is better to trust and face betrayal than to remain skeptical of everything and everybody. Your open heart is a gift.

If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours. -Oliver

Villains don't have friends, and neither do their children. Not when you get right down to it.

Mimi knew now what she had to do. To save their bond, to save themselves. She had to destroy Schuyler Van Alen.

I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have. -Schuyler

It hurt because he knew she loved him; she had told him as much. It just-just not enough...

Mimi walked out of church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.

Don't worry my love, we shall have our vengeance. I promise it. -Jack

She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back...so I can. God. So I can kill her. -Dylan

Now tell me the truth, he said. Why are you doing this? She cringe from him. I told you why. I know you still love me. He smiled. I can see it in your face. Mimi sneered. We are with Lucifer now; we have always been false. I don't believe it for one second, Kingsley whispered, looking into her eyes tenderly.

I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power.

You think you're too good for me, don't you, National Scholar. But you're just a mail-order bride and that's all you are. I can't believe my brother hasn't seen through you. You should have been long gone by now.