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Quotes About Betrayal

Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.
~ Suzanne Collins
Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.
~ Suzanne Collins
Anything else?" Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting... I ate your lunch.
~ Suzanne Collins
How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?" "Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot," I say.
~ Suzanne Collins
Afraid of everything. If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life . . . then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that was for sure. And if you couldn't trust them, who could you trust? All bets were off.
~ Suzanne Collins
The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?
~ Suzanne Collins
Coriolanus could see that Festus was falling for her. Did you tell your best friend his crush was a cannibal? Never a rule book when you needed one.
~ Suzanne Collins
Finnick:" Good to see you, Peeta." Peeta:" You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you." It could be a joke, if the tone wasn't so cold. Everything it conveys is wrong. The open distrust of Finnick, the implication that Peeta has his eye on Annie, that Annie could desert Finnick, that I do not even exist. Finnick:"Oh Peeta," says Finnick lightly. "Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
~ Suzanne Collins
Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.
~ Suzanne Collins
What have the nibblers ever done for you?" The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a clear shot of her eyes. They were asking for an answer. Needing to know if she could count on him. "They saved your life," he said. And for just a moment, Luxa's face softened and she smiled.
~ Suzanne Collins
He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.
~ Suzanne Collins
My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who, of all the people in this rotting world, has turned Peeta and me into pieces in his Games. I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. And he has betrayed me.
~ Suzanne Collins
If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?
~ Suzanne Collins
But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would've thought she'd murdered someone from the looks she got.
~ Suzanne Collins
Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.
~ Suzanne Collins
If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.
~ Suzanne Collins
I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me
~ Suzanne Collins
Coriolanus to the rescue, Livia to the nearest exit.
~ Suzanne Collins
If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life . . . then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that was for sure.
~ Suzanne Collins
Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.
~ Suzanne Collins
How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?
~ Suzanne Collins