Quotes About Betrayal

Khaster is dead," Taropat said. "He was killed by the man you would have me serve. You are all under his spell. I pity you.

I reclined against my sofa, and delivered the final thrust of the needle to his heart.

They call him the hand of fire, the eye of the emperor. It is said that as he slays in your father's name, so your father witnesses the event. Valraven pledged himself to the fire. Yes, I know what he is, Varencienne. A traitor to his land, his gods.

I would prefer to be liked by a woman who looks like her, Varencienne thought. She looks interesting, yet she is jealous of me, perhaps in the same way Bayard is jealous of Palindrake. How will this end? Will I win her over, or will she destroy me, push me from the battlements, poison me, or have me killed by a brigand? Perhaps we will always be enemies until we are old, or perhaps she will marry and move away.

Well, when Kashday met Helen, we had no idea what a viper he was bringing into our nest. She was bright, too intelligent to be a dependent.

If I talked of Valraven Palindrake disparagingly before you went to Caradore as his bride, it was the voice of my pain.

Daniel has betrayed you, Owen. He laughed about you, as Lily did. Both of them prefer my attention to yours. You are weak, unskilled, a fumbling, hopeless lover. Give yourself to me now. Let me teach you.

Be careful, Othman, I can have a pack of famished hounds down your back while you lie asleep at night. I can tell your little Winter friends a few things about you.

You have welcomed an incubus into your bed yet you shun me. You're pathetic.

Ahhh," breathed the serpent, "to be desired by princes and kings. I am you, Tayven. I am the snake inside your pretty skin that bit them and poisoned their hearts.

The affair did not last, and what you have heard is no doubt the poison that lingers in a broken heart.

I was not sad to leave the banquet, for my evening had been poisoned at the thought of this thorn that had come to embed itself in Alofel's flesh.

He hugged Daniel tightly for a moment, and Daniel could feel Othman's body trembling as if he was weeping. He knew then that Othman would kill him.

I felt Beth flinch against me, and longed to reach for his hand, but I wanted to betray no sign of weakness.

To this point, I had not realised how deadly Mallory could be, and even believed her hand was not behind these events. I realised I must be wrong. Some of Mallory's creatures were among the delegations to Mewt.

Daniel was his strength, his psychic eye. But it had been plucked out.

Everyone wanted to know more lurid tales about the Wraethru. Only I knew he was one of them: his hands were never still, and I could tell half the things he said were lies.

He looked up at her, his face that of total vulnerability. He was a boy again, confused because the world had acted against him.

Ah, Tayven, we are not together and I am not swooning in your embrace, ready to spill all. I see through your wiles.

Healers make the most dreadful enemies, Scion of the House of Strong-in-the-Arm. The knowledge that saves lives can be used to do exactly the opposite. Especially when they have the blood of the Wise Ones in their veins.

Logan didn't know which was worse – discovering your husband was a lying, adulterous bastard, or a dismembered corpse.

he met this woman at the supermarket where he works.' She sighed. 'But he doesn't really love her! He's just punishing me … I mean, she's got no breasts.

Dylan's Blood on The Tracks.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.