Quotes About Betrayal

At least when I palmed Aislinn off on Gary, I had the basic honesty not to do it for her own good. I did it because I felt like it, and fuck her.

The truth is the most desirable woman in the world and we are the most jealous lovers, reflexively denying anyone else the slightest glimpse of her. We betray her routinely, spending hours and days stupor-deep in lies, and then turn back to her holding out the lover's ultimate Möbius strip: But I only did it because I love you so much.

Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications.

Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure. But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

Before God and in conscience, Muslims cannot satisfy themselves by repeating what the texts say and then snap their fingers at daily social realities: that would be to speak of an ideal while at the same time blind themselves as to their daily betrayal.

my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.

When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?

family secret that was about to disrupt her

You can't tell your teacher that my name is James Witherspoon. Atlanta ain't nothing but a country town, and everyone knows everybody. Your other wife and your other girl is a secret?, I asked him. He put me down from his lap, so we could look each other in the face. No. You've got it the wrong way around. Dana you are the one that's a secret.

Every one of us has lain down for a reason that was not love.

and I wondered what it felt like to live inside such disloyal skin.

What's up, Roy?" "Well . . ." He looked up at the sun, not bothering to shield his eyes. "I got locked up for a crime I didn't commit, and when I get home, my wife has hooked up with my boy.

Dear Celestial, I am innocent.' 'Dear Roy, I am innocent, too.

like that one time when Celestial happened upon a receipt for two pieces of lingerie, not just for the one I gave her for her birthday.

Tayari Jones

I never want to feel grateful about being deceived.

Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

El hombre que juega con el corazón de un amigo, descubrirá pronto que está jugando con un corazón que ha muerto.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

Thats always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think theyre just never going to hurt you, then they do. Thats when you get the worst heartbreak.

And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand, and I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said run as fast as you can. (Dear John)

Wake up and smell the break up, fix my heart put on my makeup...another mess I didn't plan. And I'll bet you thought you beat me, wish you could only see, I've got an I

Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart? Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart,now? Why would you wanna make the very first scar? Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?