Quotes About Betrayal

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 conversations about how my head is going to find itself on a spike.

Inside the carriage, Cardan slumps. I stare at him, at the blood drying in tide lines over his body and crusting in his curls like tiny garnets. I force myself to look out the window instead. 'How long have I-' he hesitates. 'Not even three days,' I tell him. 'Barely any time at all.' I do not mention how long it has seemed. Nor do I say how he might have been trapped as a serpent for all time, bridled and bound. Or dead.

He picked up her purse from where it rested beside her and shook it gently. "In case you were concerned. All just as you left it." She nodded. "Thanks. Although I guess whether I'll ever get to use that marker is pretty up in the air right now." "You should have let me eat her in that parking lot," Gavriel said, raising his eyebrows.

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.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET CXLVII

His eyes narrow on the blood, and he points the wooden stick at me. 'You seem to have cut yourself.' I wonder if he's surprised that I'm alive. I wonder if he watched the tower the whole time during his luncheon, waiting for the amusing spectacle of me jumping to my death. I take the knife out from under my tunic and show it to him, stained a flinty red. I smile. 'I could cut you, too.

I look to see that it's the worst person possible: Cardan.

I remember what it was to hate him with the whole of my heart but Iv'e remembered too late.

Do not fall under Prince Oak's spell,' he warns as the knight climbs up the rocks to us. 'He's not what he seems.

Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's heart." - Heather

When I am scared, I can't forget that no matter how well he plays the role of father, he will always and forever also be my father's murderer.

In that moment, she sprang on him and tore him to pieces.

Now what?' 'We wait for the sun together,' he says, his gaze going to the hot blush of the horizon. 'And no one dies.' He sits with her as red turns to gold, as blue edges out black. He sits with her as grey creeps over Aslog's skin, and he does not look away from the betrayal on her face as she becomes stone.

Jude, you keep smiling a pleasant smile in front of Madoc, but all I can see anymore is bared teeth.

Surely Nicasia would expect more of Cardan's mother than the thin gruel of emotion she has served her son.

The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.' Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. 'Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.

Now the Court's heart is yours and yours alone. Let's break it.

He behaved as though he had a heart of stone, so she gave him one.

Cardan won't forgive you for what you're doing with her.' I pause, unable to pass by without listening for his answer. But Locke only laughs. 'Is he more angry that you chose me over him or that I chose a mortal over you?

An unnamed favour is a dangerous thing to give...

What did he offer you?' I ask, like we're all in on the same joke. Yes, it's a gamble. Maybe Cardan didn't offer them anything at all. I try not to seem like I'm holding my breathe. I try not to show how small Cardan makes me feel. The Ghost gives me one of his rare smiles. 'Mostly gold, but also power. Position.' 'A lot of things he hasn't got,' said the Bomb. 'I thought we were friends,' Cardan says halfheartedly.

Lying is so easy here. I can do it all day long and never be caught.

When I am scared, I can't forget that no matter how well he plays the role of father, he will always and forever also be my father's murderer.

But she did run. She was almost around the corner when his blade struck her in the back. She crumpled to the linoleum, falling arms knocking magnets off the fridge.