Quotes About Betrayal

One time I came to blows with Shimada. We were talking about Akatsu's defection, and Shimada took a sympathetic view toward Akatsu. I, for my part, had no sympathy at all for a soldier who had deserted before my very eyes. Before very long a fistfight started, and we rolled down the hill pounding each other.

Never feel bad when your friends are becoming your enemies They're just tired of pretending

There you are," Cardan says as I take my place beside him. "How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversation about how my head is going to find itself on a spike.

Yes, my sweet villain, my darling god… Sweet Jude. You are my dearest punishment

And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.

I am the Queen of Elfhame. Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn't just trying to take Cardan's throne. He's trying to take mine.

Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.

This is absurd. This is awful. This isn't how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit.

I recall that your hands were on her, but her eyes were on me,' Cardan returns.

Some promises aren't worth keeping.

She's going to want to wear your skull for a hat," Oak warns. There is an uncomfortable shifting among the ex-falcons. Perhaps they are recalling their own choice to denounce her, their own punishment. "And Cardan is going to laugh and laugh when she does.

Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts.

I can't believe he said that and then just walked out, leaving me reeling. I am going to STRANGLE him.

Hazel, Hazel, blue of eye. Kissed the boys and made them cry

Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

I hate you because your father loves you even though you're a human brat born to his unfaithful wife, while mine never cared for me, though I am a prince of Faerie. I hate you because Locke used you and your sister to make Nicasia cry after he stole her from me. Besides which, after the tournament, Balekin never failed to throw you in my face as the mortal who could best me.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.

Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It's not like you're actually currently betraying him.

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

Our promises don't matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.

As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach. KILL THE CHILD

Don't." She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. "You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you're never going to bullshit your way into my heart again.

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.