Quotes About Betrayal

I'd rather be single than to be lied to, cheated on, and disrespected.

My knight in shining armor turned out to be a loser in aluminum foil.

I said I didn't need you, I swore it was true, but I guess I'm a huge liar because now I swear I do.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you

Fake friends are like shadows, they follow you in the sun but leave you in the dark.

I thought you loved me.

Noam did kill Brennan. He shot his head open like a rotten fruit. He abandoned Dara to the quarantined zone. He let—his own mother killed herself to get away from him. And who could blame her?

No, no, now you listen—you—this whole time. The bruises—it was Lehrer. Not Gordon. Lehrer. He—I was fourteen, Noam! I was . . . but he . . . and I couldn't tell anyone because, god, didn't even need his power!" Dara laughed, a mad sound, and he wasn't touching Noam anymore, had both hands pressed up against his own skull. "No one believed me.

When you give your all to another person and he throws it in your face, you stop short and wonder why.

part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer

is the last word (I hope) on the horrors of the Vietnamese re-education camps that our allies were sentenced to when we left them swinging in the wind.

They started this war, and now that they're tired of it, they've sold us out, he said, pouring me another drink. But who is there to blame but ourselves? We were foolish enough to think they would keep their word. Now there's nowhere to go but America.

I'm a loser for believing in all the promises your America made to people like me. You came and said we were friends, but what we didn't know was that you could never trust us, much less respect us. Only losers like us couldn't have seen what's so obvious now, how you wouldn't want anyone for your friend who actually wanted to be your friend. Deep down you suspect only fools and traitors would believe your promises.

Americans liked seeing people eye to eye, the General had once told me, especially as they screwed them from behind.

He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.

He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another's.

He who wants to make his friend his enemy should lend him some money.

Remember, those are not all your friends who laugh with you.

Some people will slap you on the back behind your face and then slap you in the face behind your back.

The deadliest relationship is life is the person who destroys your hope.

When Hitler launched Operation "Barbarossa," virtually all BT's were abandoned.

Here is why:  The Brest "Peace" meant millions of Russian soldiers were needed no longer.