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Betrayal Quotes


"Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong."


"Imagine,' she said, after registering, 'a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy.' 'You'll be so easy,' Rashmi said. 'Would you like-ah to order-ah the spa-ghe-tti? 'Oh, do me, Marco!"


"Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it."


"Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest."


"You will answer this day for your treason.' Then he added solemnly, 'You break my heart, brother.' Before Eyramus could blink Thristan was gone."


"Empathy? What's that? Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. 'It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself."


"At the sound of her name, Lucia's blue eyes honed in on me. She cocked her head to the side as if puzzled. 'Why me? she wondered.'Lucia, you exploded with power after Ehno was killed. I shot Ehno an apologetic look. 'I felt your sorrow before I even knew something was wrong. It hit me like a freight train of boulders. You made the sky rain fireballs with red lightning. Need I say more?"


"Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???Graystripe:...Drowning?Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?"


"Maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one."


"Betrayal is the most powerful poisonous tool which permanently destroys the bonds of your friends or family members. Therefore, true bonds of your friends or family members can never get recovered again or will not remain the same because you purposely have broken your true commitment with them."


"I know that my grandmother certainly did nothing to warrant my mother stealing all of her jewelry that my grandfather had given her as gifts over the years, just so she could peddle it for heroin on the street. Those were precious metals and gems that could never be replaced, and each one had a story behind it. A love story between my grandparents, that my mother flushed down a proverbial toilet so that she could shoot up, throw up and pass out."


"Mutual respect is an integral part of communication."


"I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. "Cody, will you take me to the nearest clinic? I need someone to dig the knife out of my back. Lexis might need it again. And the good doctor might want to give me a tetanus shot. I think she bled on me. Stunned silence. I often had that effect."


"The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair."


"Love does not last forever, then?'He asked me the same thing this morning,' she said. 'No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived."



"Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow."


"I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out."
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