Quotes About Betrayal

The Alexandria Quartet

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

It's no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends, ... I will not go into the details of what happened. All I will say is that Nicole knows what she did, and that's all I am ever going to say about it.

Se la gelosia, come donne, poteva essere per loro un sentimento nobile, doveroso, tale da poter essere, in determinati casi, rivelato, confessato a qualche amica, la delusione, questa volta, essendo impudica e profana, era destinata al silenzio, alla solitudine del deserto in cui esse si erano trovate a un certo punto, così di colpo, senz'acqua.

The powers and principalities would hold less sway over our lives if we refused to collaborate with them. But refusal is risky, so we deny our own truth, take up lives of "self-impersonation," and betray our identities.2

There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.

You'll drink the other first.' Wondering why women all turned into his old nurse when there was an injury to tend, he drank the bitter brew in the other beaker, and was handed his spiced ale as if it was a reward,

Stop trying to trust people you already know you can't trust!

Son of a bitch. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was Coyote or the son of Satan. He was a dead man walking.

I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.

People who say that vampires don't care about anyone except themselves are mostly right—but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.

I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

There are some things that honest, honorable people don't do to the people they love. They don't propose marriage on TV. They don't bring home small cuddly animals without checking with their spouses first. And they don't tell their ex-husband they love him in front of a crowd that includes their daughter and his current wife right before he goes off to almost certain death. It didn't help that most of us could tell that she wasn't lying.

Anna stabbed her with the dagger she'd concealed in Tom's jacket. Under the ribs and through the heart--just like her favorite forensic TV show had taught her.

Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again.

See that's the thing about secrets. All you have to do is tell one person—and suddenly everyone knows.

Mr. Francis hired a witch to make a zombie to kill me?

Bonarata was charming, but I couldn't forget or forgive him for

The bones meant that I had broken faith with the vampires and was no longer under their protection—and anyone offering me aid of any kind was likely to find themselves on the wrong side of the vampires as well.

You can't put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

Do I have a choice?" "A choice? To hear that your son is a crook? Your wife is an adulteress? Your caterer a blackmailer? And you maid takes bribes to stay quiet?

Well I never! And you with a a wife and babe on the way, Colin Moriarity!" The Widow Blackthorne. Groaning inwardly, Fiona steepled her fingers against her forehead and swore to worship the Devil if God couldn't do better than this.