Quotes About Betrayal

Gwladus wanted to throw ale in the proud little face. But the princess would kill her, dead as a suckling pig.

It wasn't her blood. It was the blood of those who had fought over her like mad beasts while she lay stunned.

Promises were useless in the face of torture.

You couldn't see her good points for her bad. Ah, now your face is closing up. I haven't seen that face in a while. No doubt you're thinking, He doesn't know the half of it and I'm not going to ruin his image of his fiancée by telling him. Tell me, did she try to seduce you? Yes, I thought so. She tried it with all my other friends who didn't like her." "I-" "Oh, I know, you turned her down.

Who would have me? The Crow took everything. For his church, he said." He looked about the rough empty space. "The king smiled and watched.

Her smile was the kind of smile Hild had imagined on the water sprite's face as she pulled her down and drowned her.

This was how it would be for her, she realised when Edwin king decided he no longer needed a seer. She would stand, plump and fed and brushed like a sacrificial cow, with gilded horns and a ribbon around her neck, too stupid to know she was being led to slaughter.

I'll kill him. You're mine, Nicole—not some stupid mortal that can't even put out a fire. Next time I'll let him burn. And if you try anything stupid like you did tonight, I'll let you burn too.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party's demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effect on human relationships. Husbands and wives became guarded with each other, and parents were alienated from their children.

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

By God, the point of the thing is not in this property, which can be confiscated, but in that which no one can steal and carry off! ... Forget this noisy world and all its seductive fancies; let it forget you, too. There is no peace in it. You see: everything in it is either an enemy, a tempter, or a traitor.

Well, in this case,' said Chichikov, 'I haven't lied by even this much,' and with his thumb he marked off the very tip of his little finger. 'You Jesuit, you Jesuit! I'll bet you anything you're talking rot!' 'Listen, this is insulting! What's going on, anyway? Why do you think I have to be lying?

Woman is in love with the devil.

income, income is what these patriots want! Mother, father, God—they'll sell them all for money, the ambitious Judases! It's all ambition,

Always a friend or a comrade may fail you, and be the first to desert you in a time of adversity; but never will a KOPECK fail you, whatever may be your plight.

Instálese en un rincón tranquilo, cerca de la iglesia y de la gente sencilla y buena: o si tiene grandes deseos de dejar descendencia, cásese con alguna muchacha pobre y buena. Olvídese de este mundo ruidoso y de todas sus lujosas tentaciones, y que él también lo olvide. En este mundo no hay consuelo. Ya lo ve usted: no hay más que enemigos, traiciones y pecados

The enemy of my friend is my enemy and the friend of my enemy is my enemy.

I suppose I do complain sometimes. Who doesn't? We all know (or believe secretly) that when we were children we were happy and trusting and hopeful and good and that we would still be all these pleasant things if sometime, somewhere, somehow, we had not been betrayed.

If I'd been right enough in the head to track time, I could tell you the date I returned home to find Finbarr, sitting on the curb in front of our building, a satchel at his feet. It was the only time in my life where my heart didn't leap at the sight of him. There was nothing I could do but break his heart once by telling him about Genevieve, and twice by sending him away.

The only person who can really hurt you in life," she would write, many years later, "is a husband.

The only person who can really hurt you in life is a husband.

Eve was framed.