Quotes About Betrayal

Jealousy seems to make me suffer in the most unexpected ways.

If he had attacked me outright, I might have been able to defend myself. Instead, he exposed my secret as if offering himself to me. I was left mute, listening to my heart pounding in my chest.

The social protests now erupting around the world are less about gaining power and more about taking power away from those who seem to have betrayed their duty.

I looked her up and down. She wouldn't meet my eyes. I didn't recognize her anymore. She was nothing like the image of her I had in my head. Her features meant nothing to me; she was someone else.

When people try to lie there are little things that betray the truth.

Tous les drames sont possibles lorsqu'un amour-propre est bafoué

Professionally, Hearst is a form of poison. Politically, he has degenerated into a form of suicide. Whoever ties up with him begins to smell lilies and attract the undertaker.

the ring of weapons aimed directly at the Jeep was impressive. "I thought you said he was your friend," Mack said. "Well, we've been growing apart recently," Bullfinch said.

If my boyfriend offered me up for a voodoo ritual sacrifice, I'd have some serious questions about the future of the relationship.

You are afraid, afraid of your dreams, your dreams which were once your friends, your best friends, are now your enemies, your worst enemies.

While certain partners may hurt us, they cannot undo the abiding trust that we continue to carry so steadfastly toward the human world. We become able to hold others with a relaxed grasp, not compulsively or coercively as if we needed to hold on for dear life. Buddhist writer Stephen T. Butterfield wrote, "Since no relationship can be made entirely safe and secure . . . this has to mean trust in one's own ability to use any consequence, including betrayal, as a means for waking up.

Some of my least favorite people are my cousins," Zuberi sniffed, not untruthfully. "Well, then, that should make it easier for me not to disappoint you.

Since reason and love, the forces I had come to rely on in my life, have betrayed me, I am in unknown territory.

Substance abusers lie about everything, and usually do an awesome job of it." Stephen King once wrote. "It's the liar's disease." Nic once told me, quoting an AA platitude, "An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie about it. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it." Part of me is convinced that he actually believes that he will find it for you.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies, don't you want somebody to love.

Otherwise, everything I'd ever felt about this great country was a crock of shit.

Alberta thought for a moment, and took a live mouse out of her pocket by its tail before dropping it into Wagner's mouth. The bird wolfed the unfortunate creature whole.

Jijji is a traitor. One of the most vicious and brutal humans that you can ever come into contact with. His blood is like snake venom, and his mouth is like a black widow's. He will kill and eat his own family in order for his own survival, which is backwards. There is no such thing as living, if you do not have your family. He's not supposed to treat us like this. We are all family right here, right now.

You are a traitor to the entire African bloodline! You don't deserve the blood that Allah has given you! You don't deserve the air that we share. You don't deserve the color that you have on your body. You had to have stolen it! There is no way Allah would have given your

My pleasure. Listen," he called after her, "this is as far as I can go. They poisoned the water out there and I can't follow you now. If you do see Powell, will you give him a message for me?" "Sure," she said, turning around. "Tell him I have his boots in my truck. In case he's looking for 'em." Chey smiled. It felt wrong on her face, but she liked it all the same. "I'll do that.

There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid]

I keep the gun in a hollowed out copy of the Koran. And there the big book was, tossed on the bed, open and gunless. Nothing else disturbed. I mean, they actually checked my Koran to see if there was a gun inside. I knew I was dealing with a sick son of a bitch.

Six centuries ago, the pre-Colombian natives who settled here named this region with a word that in their language translates to, 'The Mouth of the Shadow.' Later, the Iroquois who showed up and inexplicably slaughtered every man, woman, and child in those first tribes renamed it a word that literally translates to, 'Seriously, Fuck this Place.