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Quotes About Betrayal

Deposit hope in people is like punching against the edge of a sharp knife.
~ L.F. Magister
Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?
~ l.j smith
You turned your back on me when I needed you.
~ L.J. Smith
Wait." Stefan's voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. "What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?" "He will not kill me," Sage said brusquely, the wild tone back in his voice. "He may even find it as amusant as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow.
~ L.J. Smith
He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.
~ L.J. Smith
I would have understood if they had killed him.
~ L.J. Smith
Klaus can't come between us anymore.-Tyler (before they start kissing and he accidentally bites Caroline)
~ L.J. Smith
I'll forget everything. I'll forget the last hundred years I spent missing you. We can start over.-Damon The truth is...I never loved you.-Katherine
~ L.J. Smith
I, Cassie, swear not to betray my trust..." she whispered, and watched her own blood trickle off the side of her hand. "Not by word, or look, or deed, waking or sleeping, by speech or by silence..." She repeated it in a whisper. "... in this land or any other. If I do, may fire burn me, air smother me, earth swallow me, and water cover my grave.
~ L.J. Smith
There was no physical wound—our transformation healed all injuries—but the betrayal would be etched in our minds forever.
~ L.J. Smith
A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.
~ la bruyere jean de
Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.
~ la bruyere jean de vii
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
~ la bruyere jean de vii
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.
~ La Rochefoucauld
'Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
~ La Rochefoucauld
We can't bear to be deceived by our enemies, and betrayed by our friends; yet are often content to be so served by ourselves.
~ la rochefoucauld v
Jealousy is always born with love, but doesn't always die with it.
~ la rochefoucauld v
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.
~ la rochefoucauld vii
for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures. I
~ Laila Lalami
Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows.
~ laing ronald david
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. Love is the path through permissiveness to discipline: and through discipline, only too often, to betrayal of self.
~ laing ronald david
Imagine if [Juliet] woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But [Romeo] had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.
~ Laini Taylor
You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength." "Strength," she said with a little laugh. "I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.
~ Laini Taylor
Finding Akiva's door still closed, Liraz gave a chuff of derision and didn't knock but only crashed it open and glared at the sight that greeted them. Akiva and Karou, eyes bleary with desire, facing each other on a stone slab and touching, hands to hearts... "Well," Liraz said, her voice as dry as the rest of her was not. "At least you still have your clothes on.
~ Laini Taylor