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Quotes About Betrayal

I'm going to cut you," Georgiana murmured. "I'm going to mark that face of yours and show him what I'm capable of." "He'd still love me," Elizabeth whispered. "It's a concept you could never understand, Georgiana.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
That a man who had once betrayed him, it would be an error in policy ever to trust again.
~ Charlotte Lennox
Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
~ Chaz Bono
The discipleship community, as has happened so often throughout history, has buckled under the boot of security forces, its dreams of a new order shattered by the brute reality of state power. Jesus, now alone, goes to stand in a kangaroo court with no hope of justice. There his final conflict with the powers will be played out.
~ Ched Myers
She'd liked Pearl. Pearl hadn't meant to Tazer Archie. Well, she meant to Tazer him, but how was she supposed to know that her then-boyfriend was going to drag Archie away, suspend him naked from meat hooks and try to hack him up with an ax? Hadn't everyone had a bad boyfriend at some point? Pearl had made some bonehead choices, but she had a good heart.
~ Chelsea Cain
Middle school female friendships are intense. They shift, fall apart, reassemble. A sixth-grade girl will stab her friends in the back. She will spread rumors. She will slam doors. She will taunt and yell and accuse. But come between her and those same friends? She will rip your throat out.
~ Chelsea Cain
You know what hurts...? ...That you think you can actually win me back with this @#$$$**, you anachronistic piece of #$$*. Now take your hand off my ass.
~ Chelsea Cain
Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen. That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy
~ Chelsea Cain
in that moment she realised that Archie had never told her anything, never let her see anything, that he didn't want her to know.
~ Chelsea Cain
Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.
~ Chelsea Handler
When you walked out that door I swore that I didn't care But I lost every thing, darlin', then and there
~ Cher
Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy.
~ Cherie Priest
Sometimes you get a good eyeful of a man-sized action figure—and he knows what you are, and what you can do … and you know what he is, and what he's done before, or what he's helping other people do. And you just can't stand it because for all his bluster and bullshit he's weak and horrible, and cowardly, and if he caught you, he'd do terrible things to you—the kinds of things that were done to Ian and Isabelle.
~ Cherie Priest
You're half-dead, yet you have the vigor to philander? I was stabbed, not castrated.
~ Cheryl Holt
When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.
~ Cheryl Hughes
One of my dearest friends took the photograph of me she kept in a frame, ripped it in half, and mailed it to me.
~ Cheryl Strayed
He was a liar and a charmer, a heartbreak and a brute.
~ Cheryl Strayed
What have you done to him? Where is he?" The Voivode leaned forward, stared the pasha directly in the eyes, and smiled sweetly. "I put him in the stew. All I had to serve you for meat was that delicious pig, and I did not wish to offend your religious sensitivities.
~ Chet Williamson
An ordinary Haitian mule, it was said, would serve you faithfully for ten years just for the chance to kick your brains in
~ Chet Williamson
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
~ Chief Joseph
Words that provoked the gods once from him fell. No beasts so fierce, said he, but I can quell; When lo! the earth a baleful Scorpion sent, To kill Latona was the dire intent. Orion saved her, though himself was slain, But did for that a spacious place obtain In heaven. To thee my life, said she, was dear, And for thy merit shine illustrious there.
~ Ovid
Wine is a turn-coat, first a friend, then an enemy.
~ French proverb
A small wrong from a friend makes a greater wound in a man's heart than a great wrong from an enemy.
~ Spanish proverb
A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws.
~ Author Unknown