Quotes About Betrayal

Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love.

Maybe love bore fruit even more poisonous than fear.

Loving someone merely meant pain. Nothing but pain.

Men are always on the side of power. Even the Dark Fairy had to learn that. They will always betray us for power, so why shouldn't we do the same? If only it didn't make our hearts so cold.

Pass auf dein Herz auf, Fuchsschwester,' rief Miranda ihr zu. 'Ich habe keins und er hat es mir trotzdem gebrochen.

Too late had she realized what he was sowing in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.

Ah, love. What a perfect tool of revenge.

The reason there's no use looking," said Mr. Beaver, "is that we know already where he's gone!" Everyone stared in amazement. "Don't you understand?" said Mr. Beaver. "He's gone to her, to the White Witch. He has betrayed us all." C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

He ended up in this place because these supposed pals of his had screwed up. He knew that he was going to end up making up with them, going to end up getting deeper into this. He knew that this was how good people did shitty things: one tiny rotten compromise at a time. Well, he wasn't going to go there.

You said I was in love. You were right. But that never happened, either.

I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.

Wrong because Christ had died for them and they were now killing him again.

See, I always forget this about you, he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's overhearing him. Every decade, you like to pin me to the ground, pull open my mouth, and take a sh** right into it.

How terrible it was that it should be spring, and everything cold-hearted, cold-hearted.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

Yet he was tense, feeling that he and the elderly, estranged woman were conferring together like traitors, like enemies within the camp of the other people.

She saw the sunshine going out of him, and she resented it.

everywhere for it. And, as she sought, the conviction came into her heart that her husband had taken it. What she had in her purse was all the money

Light, old boy? said Beatrice, tilting her cigarette at him. He bent forward to her to light his cigarette at hers. She was winking at him as he did so. Miriam saw his eyes trembling with mischief, and his full, almost sensual mouth quivering. He was not himself, and she could not bear it. As he was now, she had no connection with him, she might as well not have existed. She saw the cigarette dancing on his full red lips. She hated his thick hair for being tumbled loose on his forehead.

One was less in love with the boy afterwards, and a little inclined to hate him, as if he had trespassed on one's privacy and inner freedom.

After one inflamed evening... he shouted at her: I'll make you tremble at the sound of my footstep. It was a historical phrase in her life. She had sat down and laughed till she was quite good-humoured and merry at the idea. He had stood bursting with fury and ignominy. And, by giving her as little money as possible, by drinking much and going out with men who brutalised him and his idea of women, he paid her back.