Quotes About Betrayal

you'd have understood how easily the blade of spite turns in one's hands, and cuts one's own palms.

was a single word, inked thinly and carefully between the lines of the inventory, like a spider hanging barely visible in a corner. ?????? An assault, a rebuke across the years. An outstretched hand. The inverted letters spelled the single Hebrew word that meant "I loved.

I remade my heart. I learned to conduct myself in love so it could not betray me.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

Her husband, Rafael, who'd left her and who'd contributed not one penny to his children's welfare, was a fool of such dimensions that he should have been required to dress like a jester, complete with silly hat and curled-toe shoes.

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...

I didn't think she would willingly give me up to the hulk; but he would break her like a ceramic bank to get at the coins of knowledge that she held.

Nowhere can a secret keep Always secret, dark and deep, Half so well as in the past, Buried deep to last, to last. Keep it in your own dark heart. Otherwise the rumors start. After many years have buried Secrets over which you worried, No confidant can then betray All the words you didn't say. Only you can then exhume Secrets safe within the tomb Of memory, of memory, Within the tomb of memory. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

There's no middle ground in modern movies; you either save a kingdom and marry a princess or you are shot to death by assassins hired by the evil corporation that you are trying to bring to justice in the courtroom of a corrupt judge.

lies such as love, guilt, hate, courage, loyalty, and honor.

The penitent face of the religieuse collapsed into the greedy hookworm maw, as though it ate its own false countenance

a smile in which malice tried to pass as friendly intent, in which amusement was in fact dripping venom.

Friendship is an illusion.. Like love and compassion!

It ain't a lie that's gonna put me in the pit with Al Capone, but it's one step on a slippery slope I been down before.

Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose.

out everything you could've told us. And if our little ruse

He dared not ask for details of the cruelties that she had visited upon their daughter. For the first time, Brian realized that, if he were privy to all the facts, he might be driven to kill this woman.

you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the

What upset her most was the cold-blooded way he'd dismissed her from his life. It seemed so easy for him, so...simple. She was gone for him, as if she meant nothing. That hurt, and it didn't stop hurting.

I could have walked out at any time. I'm the one who turned a bind eye. I'm the one who chose to die a little with every one of his affairs, so no, bottom line: I choose not to hate him, If I have any anger, its directed at myself. I don't know why I waited so long to take care of myself emotionally and spiritually.

At times he could be charming and gracious, which was what had made it so hard to leave him. His ability to be tender and loving was equal to his capacity to be deceptive and underhanded. He could rip out my heart and then be the first one to pick it up and hand it back to me.

It wasn't only his business practices that distressed Olivia. Everyone knew that Warren had cheated on his wife—correction, wives. He'd flaunted his affairs until both women had filed for divorce and left town.

I think Mr. Roarke's been burned. His tender heart was shattered by a careless affair that left him bleeding and raw.