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Quotes About Betrayal

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.
~ Justin Cronin
From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.
~ Justina Chen Headley
She promised to be good. She wasn't.
~ Justine Larbalestier
He left school without even sending you a text message saying 'I hope you enjoy the beautiful scenery on your trip through Dumpslandia.
~ Justine Larbalestier
Who's the bigger liar? Me or them? Isn't lying about love the worst lie? Isn't that worse than anything I've ever done?
~ Justine Larbalestier
But when the synod gathered, the bishop of Tucumán, a friend of the accused, wrenched the documents from the archbishop's hands and burned them in the oven of a bakery. In
~ Justo L. González
Love is a funny thing, isn't it? It likes to f*** with you by making you fall in love with the wrong person."- Master Rex from my upcoming book "Whispers of Change
~ Justus Roux
Collaborations. (Good word. Two artists collaborate on a masterpiece. Traitors collaborate with the enemy.)
~ K.J. Parker
It is just such women, selfish, sweet, false, that entice fools.
~ K?lid?sa
A stream that eats away the bank, Grows foul, and undermines the tree. So you would stain your honour, while You plunge me into misery.
~ K?lid?sa
Teller would pay dearly for what he had said. Later that summer, on a visit to Los Alamos, Teller spotted an old friend, Bob Christy, in the dining hall. Walking over to greet him with outstretched hand, Teller was stunned when Christy refused to shake hands and abruptly turned his back. Standing close by was a furious Rabi, who said, "I won't shake your hand, either, Edward." Stunned, Teller went back to his hotel room and packed his bags.
~ Kai Bird
General Groves came for dinner at the Chadwicks' and in the course of casual banter over the dinner table, he said, "You realize of course that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russians." Rotblat was shocked. He had no illusions about Stalin—the Soviet dictator had, after all, invaded his beloved Poland. But thousands of Russians were dying every day on the Eastern Front and Rotblat felt a sense of betrayal.
~ Kai Bird
Although the British Home Office knew all about his communist past, by the spring of 1941 Fuchs was working with Peierls and other British scientists on the highly classified Tube Alloys project. In June 1942, Fuchs received British citizenship—by then, he was already passing information to the Soviets about the British bomb program.
~ Kai Bird
Wir hätten Freunde werden können, aber du weißt, wie es mit Freundschaften gehen kann. Enttäuscht der eine den anderen, können sie schnell in Hass umschlagen, viel schneller als gewöhnliche Bekannschaften. Wir neigen dazu, einem Menschen, den wir schätzen, einen Fehltritt viel ärger anzurechnen als einem Unbekannten.
~ Kai Meyer
You knew how I felt about you," I say. "You've always known. If you felt the same, why go and get yourself another girl?", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
I don't know what that thing is, but I know you aren't it. You care too much about the world and the people in it. All that cared about was killing.", Jack Simple to Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
She was embarrassed that Drew was the type of walking one-night stand guy their mom had warned her about. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Agatha: She uses poison?! Gil: Well, I always thought she just couldn't make coffee . But now , I'm not so sure .
~ Kaja Foglio
We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought.
~ Kakuzo Okakura
But just then Aneeka shrugged in response and he experienced one of those terrifying moments in which a person you thought you knew reveals a new aspect of their character that has taken hold while you weren't looking.
~ Kamila Shamsie
thought firing Abu Bakr would have taught you a lesson about lying, conniving and implicating other people in your crimes,' he said. 'I'm amazed Zahra's parents haven't banished you from her life.
~ Kamila Shamsie
I'm going to stab you through the heart with the same blade... not for the good of the world... but for myself.
~ Kaori Yuki
Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I've intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I'm betraying my film.
~ Asghar Farhadi