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Quotes About Betrayal

my betrayed love had been drawn into a corner and changed to hate, my desire to reestablish the roadway had been frustrated and turned into a desire for revenge.
~ K?b? Abe
I was a cuckold present at his wife's adultery. This was a triangular relationship with one actor playing two parts. If one were to make a drawing of "me," "the mask, that is, the other me," and "you," it would be a non-Euclidean triangular relationship, existing on a single straight line.
~ K?b? Abe
The mask was no longer a means by which to get you back, but only a hidden camera through which to watch your betrayal of me. I had made the mask for the purpose of recovering myself. But it had willfully escaped from me and, taking great pleasure in its evasion, had become defiant;
~ K?b? Abe
Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed. ...
~ Kage Baker
Lady, the Faith is here," he stated. "But we must build churches in our hearts, for surely those built in the world have all betrayed us.
~ Kage Baker
Somehow she felt hollow, as though her heart was wrenched away from her. She didn't realize it. She hadn't expected it. She loved Fallon.
~ Kailin Gow
As I gave my hand to one and then another of the Winter Knights, hoping to forget Kian's kiss in the arms of the other dancers, I could feel Kian's eyes piercing through me, their flame-tinged ice searing through my soul.
~ Kailin Gow
If it weren't for married men, we couldn't have carried on at all, and if it weren't for cheating married women we could have made another million.
~ Karen Abbott
One day in Auschwitz, a group of Jews put God on trial. They charged him with betrayal and cruelty. Like Job, they found no consolation in the usual answers to the problems of evil and suffering in the midst of this current obscenity. They could find no excuse for God, no extenuating circumstances, so they found him guilty and, presumably, worthy of death. The Rabbi pronounced the verdict. Then he looked up and said that the trial was over, it was time for the evening prayer.
~ Karen Armstrong
stopped. Well, he'd been stopped. And the king had been deprived of his most loyal supporter, was suspected of having
~ Karen Hancock
Terstan. Who? Who would do such a thing? He will kill him, Abramm. Just
~ Karen Hancock
Blast the man! How dare he pack his bags and ride away after all the work she'd done! Worse, how dare he do it while looking so damned appealing?
~ Karen Hawkins
But love? True love? As wretched as loneliness could be, it was nothing compared to the pain of betrayal. He'd seen with his own eyes what "love" did to a person—how it built hopes that were rarely, if ever, realized. Falling in love meant being weak, vulnerable to the whims of another.
~ Karen Hawkins
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
So this is what I said to Mom; this is what I meant to say - That there was something inside Fern I didn't know. That I didn't know her in the way I'd always thought I did. That Fern had secrets and not the good kind. Instead I'd said I was afraid of her. That was the lie that got her sent away.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Sorry Your Husband Was Sharing His Saran Wrap Fetish with a Hooker
~ Karen MacInerney
What's going on? Not much. My mother's falling to pieces, my sister is a selfish bitch and my father's committing slow suicide for sake of his kingdom. That's all.
~ Karen Miller
Et tu, Jaffa?
~ Karen Miller
I wish you'd get one thing straight - I'm not a traitor. I was never on your side. I'm called the enemy.
~ Karen Traviss
Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started.
~ Karen Traviss
If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.
~ Karin Slaughter
Claire hates you now. She believes me. She will never, ever take you back. We are never ever ever getting back together. Taylor Swift. How many times had Dee played that song after she caught Heath Carmichael cheating
~ Karin Slaughter
Do what?" Buddy sounded flip. His eyes darted down to the wad of cash. "You got what you wanted." She shook her head. She had never wanted this. She had wanted to feel safe. To feel protected. To have someone interested in her life, her thoughts, her dreams.
~ Karin Slaughter
badness doesn't come all at once. The dominoes fall over time. You hurt someone by mistake and they let you get away with it. Then you try hurting them on purpose, and they still stick around. And then you realize that the more you hurt them, the better you feel. So you keep hurting them, and they keep hanging on, and the years roll by and you convince yourself that the fact that they still stand by you means that the pain you cause is okay.
~ Karin Slaughter