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Quotes About Betrayal

In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
That's not how families are structured. In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
They say you have to watch out for a woman scorned . Let me tell you, a woman in mourning can be just as deadly.
~ Josie Brown
Do you have any idea how humiliated I am to be related to such a man, much less to have to call him father?" "Take comfort. Perhaps your mother strayed." "Oh,dearly would I like to believe that!
~ Josie Litton
So too did any doubts about the involvement of Loki, god of mischief. That capricious deity was clearly up to his old tricks. How else to explain how a man who adored women-and who was adored by them-found himself with a bride who faced the marriage bed with less enthusiasm than she would a viper-infested den?
~ Josie Litton
Enemies keep you alert, competitive, and friendships lull you into mediocrity, and through peer pressure, keep you back and down, and eventually, down and out. Some of the most excellent friends I knew in my hometown became alcoholics, and true enough, they are fun to talk with, telling jokes and anecdotes, but they sacrificed their lives to their friendships, proving that they were fun, that they were not betraying friends by leaving hometown for large cities and countries and professions.
~ Josip Novakovich
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
~ Joss Whedon
It was nearly a week before we returned. We found her waiting, and very hungry. She was full of affection; we had deceived her so often, broken faith with her, done so much to destroy her trust in us, yet she remained loyal.
~ Joy Adamson
My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match.
~ Joy Harjo
Love had different beginnings but always the same end. Someone was going to get hurt.
~ Joy Williams
The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Each man must administer his hatred cautiously. Mine is equitable. I distribute it evenly among those who are frozen in the past and those who perspire in the present. Because while the former are hemorrhoidal in their sensibility, the latter are constipated in the brain. And they complement each other by both betraying the law of life that demands the immediate defecation of all useless detritus, be it antiquated illusion or contemporary cowardice.
~ Juan Filloy
Lo más triste que puede pasarle a una persona, tener recuerdos de mentira.»
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Luego he entendido que estaban jugando. Un marido que se encuentra en la calle con una puta cara. Estaban jugando y no podían dejar que yo dañara el juego.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Looking at him, nobody would ever have imagined that inside his briefcase were the bones of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. Sometimes I went with him, a boy hand in hand with his father, and my father would then have a living boy in one hand and a briefcase of dead bones in the other. Bones, furthermore, for which anyone would have killed right there.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
La traición y el asesinato van siempre juntos, como dos diablos unidos en un yugo que por el mismo fin trabajan tan groseramente por interés natural que la imaginación no se asombra ante ellos. Pero a ti, contra todo decoro, te estaba reservado, provocar asombro, al tiempo que traición y asesinato. Sea cual fuere el diablo que ha obrado sobre ti, se ha ganado fama de excelente en el Infierno.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Sólo que Judas, Platero, es el diputado, o la maestra, o el forense, o el recaudador, o el alcalde, o la comadrona; y cada hombre descarga su escopeta cobarde, hecho niño esta mañana de Sábado Santo, contra el que tiene su odio, en una superposición de vagos y absurdos simulacros primaverales.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
Un traidor es un traidor... Un botón es siempre un botón —sentenció.
~ Juan Sasturain
In Pioche, Nevade [while in hiding], in April 1871, he [Philip Klingonsmith] made his affidavit regarding the massacre, the first of all who had participated to break openly the pact of silence. After acting as a witness in the first trial of Lee, he returned to Nevada... he was found dead in a prospector's hole in the state of Sonora, Mexico, apparently murdered, the inference being that he had been pursued by avenging members of the Mormons and had been killed for being a traitor...
~ Juanita Brooks
Oh, my goodness gracious! I've been bamboozled! -Jason Todd
~ Judd Winick
I'm not talking about killing Cobblepot and Scarecrow or Clayface. Not Riddler or Dent... I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you.
~ Judd Winick
Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.
~ Jude Deveraux
Love can make even nice people do awful things.
~ Jude Deveraux
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.
~ Jude Morgan