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Quotes About Betrayal

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.
~ Cassandra Clare
Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. he put his hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent," she said, and they rode the rest of the way down the street in silence.
~ Cassandra Clare
Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.
~ Cassandra Clare
You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.
~ Cassandra Clare
Well, I hate to tell you this," she said, "but your friend is an asshole." "He's not my friend," said Simon. "And I couldn't agree with you more, actually." -Maia & Simon about Jace, pg.49-
~ Cassandra Clare
She saw Valentine's eyes as the sword hurtled toward her; it seemed like eons, though it could only have been a split second. She saw that he could stop the blow if he wanted. Saw that he knew it might well strike her if he didn't. Saw that he was going to do it anyway.
~ Cassandra Clare
Mark whirled on them. His eyes were blind, unseeing. "You bring the twins in front of me and you kill them over and over. My Ty, he doesn't understand why I can't save him. You bring me Dru and when she laughs to see the fairytale castle, all ringed round with hedges, you throw her against the thorns until their pierce her small body. And you bid me wash in Octavian's blood for the blood of an innocent child is magic under the Hill.
~ Cassandra Clare
A secret too long kept can kill a soul by inches. I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Little by little, poison eats away at the gold. By the time the door is opened, there may be nothing left but dust.
~ Cassandra Clare
Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?
~ Cassandra Clare
The Cold Peace wasn't what took Mark away from us," said Julian, his cheeks burning with color. "That was you. The Wild Hunt. We can see by your eyes that you ride with Gwyn, don't deny it." "Oh," said Kieran with a slight smirk on his lips. "I would not deny that." Emma wondered if anyone else heard Julian's intake of breath. "So you know my brother." The smirk never left Kieran's face. "Of course I do.
~ Cassandra Clare
And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael, I mean." "That sounds like something he would do," said Luke. His tone was neutral, but there was something in his voice that made Clary look at him sideways. Did he not believe her? "Jace saw him die, " she added, as if to bolster her claim. "That's awful," said Luke. "Poor messed-up kid.
~ Cassandra Clare
He has become a worm. That is what I am telling you." "I don't suppose it would be possible," said Henry into the silence, "to, er, step on him?
~ Cassandra Clare
It was like a bad movie except he didn't actually twirl his mustache." -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-
~ Cassandra Clare
Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him
~ Cassandra Clare
Tessa knows Will," protested Charlotte. "She trusts Will." "Iwouldn't go that far," muttered Tessa.
~ Cassandra Clare
Isabelle! he called again. Let down your raven hair. Oh, my God, Clary muttered. There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him. He's already dead, Simon observed. He's undead. Obviously he can still die, you know, again. I'll re-kill him.
~ Cassandra Clare
I knew then that Jocelyn would never come back to me, because of you. You are the only thing in the world she ever loved more than she loved me. And because of that she hates me. And because of that, I hate the sight of you
~ Cassandra Clare
That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.
~ Cassandra Clare
Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.
~ Cassandra Clare
I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabbing Judas.
~ Cassandra Clare
Yes?" said Clary, her voiced sharply edged. "Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?" "No wonder that cat of his hates everyone.
~ Cassandra Clare
Love makes liars of us all.
~ Cassandra Clare
I don't care what you think. You're not my brother," Clary said. "You're a murderer." "I really don't see how those things cancel each other out," said Sebastian
~ Cassandra Clare
He wont have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said, "he's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always really wanted to be a ballerina." -Inquisitor & Jace about Valentine, pg.123-
~ Cassandra Clare