Quotes About Betrayal

I have never harmed you, and I will never know why you felt it necessary to harm me." The Raven was quiet for a long moment. When he spoke his voice was no more than a raspy whisper. "I think, my lady, I was also harmed by you.

Sorry is one of those meaningless words people toss around before they kick you in the head again.

Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall. A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' ("Jane Brown's Body")

And the blood remembers what the heart has never learned. The approach to kill. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")

She had said: 'You could not hate anyone that much -' She was mistaken. What did she know? She felt so good right now, this must be hate, what else could it be? ("Mind Over Murder")

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

HE HAD SIGNED her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was one. He had known for six weeks now. Little things had told him. One day he came home and there was a cigar-butt in an ashtray, still moist at one end, still warm at the other.

That man, the watchmaker! He's a Gestapo plant

That's the S.D.'s favorite trick—feeling for a warm spot on a bed." © Hans Poley/Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam Two Jewish women during an actual drill of the hiding place in 1943.

People could not be trusted. They always let you down, and Will Sinclair had already proven that to her, hadn't he?

Easy, laid back and sexy as all get out. That pretty much summed up Josh Dixon. And none of those things were what she should be thinking about right now. Untrustworthy, unreliable and unfaithful. That's what she should be thinking.

Everything she'd believed had been a lie. And she'd never felt more alone in her life.

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

It was San Francisco, after all; if you are a guy and you're worried about the girl you like hooking up with someone on her vacation, I suppose San Francisco is the safest bet, assuming she doesn't give her heart to a lesbian--and who among us hasn't done that?

A bloody knife is used again. The hand that stabs is stabbed within. The one you trust is not your friend, Like Julius Caesar in the end.

I sometimes think that it's not our enemies that we resent in life, but rather friends we have who stood quietly by and did nothing.

Friendship is one friend betraying another friend to a third friend. With a fond friendly smile. The greater the betrayal, the greater the intimacy - the greater the friendship.

And I realize I've been betrayed by the two vices that fiction promised me I'd adore. Sal Paradise held up bottles of booze like a housewife in a detergent commercial. Holden Caulfield reached for his cigarettes like an act of faith. Even Huckleberry Finn tapped on his pipe with relief and satisfaction. If sex turns out to be this bad, I'm never reading again.

You have robbed me of all the dignity I had for myself.

No existe ningún hombre en el mundo que merezca que un corazón de mujer se destroce por él. Un hombre, aun cuando se cree enamorado apasionadamente, encontrará siempre alguna otra mujer para consolarse.

Bad things happened. The people closest to you surprised you in the most disappointing ways.

This is nice,' Melody said, picking up a red leather box with a vintage watch inside. 'Yes, it is nice. It's the watch I gave Walker as a wedding gift.' 'He gave it back?' 'Actually, he sold it back to the person I bought it from who alerted me and I reacquired it.' 'I'm sorry. That sounds upsetting.' 'It was. Very. Especially since he sold the watch to buy combs for my long hair and without knowing what he had done I sold my hair to buy a leather case for this watch.