Betrayed Quotes - Page 6

• Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

  Moliere

  Kings, Heart, Vices

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• And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't have jobs, who graduate from college and are fed the lie of meritocracy. "You get a degree, you get a job." That's not happening. We have young people who have become the Zero Generation: zero hope, zero employment, zero possibilities. Do we really believe that this young generation is going to stand by and not take note of an economic system that - however it calls itself - has completely betrayed them?

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Lying, Believe

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• Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the worst possible way.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Men, Self, Way

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.124, Vintage Canada

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• and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

  Milan Kundera

  Soul, World, Body

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• Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never!

  Erin Hunter

  Mother, Father, Cat

  "Warriors: Omen of the Stars (Warriors, Book 4)". Book sub-series by Erin Hunter, November 24, 2009 - April 3, 2012.

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• Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

  Barry Lopez

  Technology, Rivers, Political

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Husband, Night, Islands

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Mimic Men”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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• Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?' 'She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family.

  Ally Carter

  Distance, Thinking, Glasses

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

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• I didn't expect a knife, though. Is it the one missing from the kitchen?" "Did Rand report it?" I felt betrayed. Why hadn't he just asked for it back? "No. It just makes sense to keep track of large kitchen knives, so when one goes missing you're not surprised when someone attacks you with it.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Knives, Track, Missing

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.132, Harlequin

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• You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that.

  Holly Black

  Past, Sight, Dawn

  Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Dancer, Movement, Gestures

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.30, Harlequin

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• Annabeth didn’t want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. “Percy, wake me for second watch. Don’t be a hero.” He gave her that smirk she’d come to love. “Who, me?” He kissed her, his lips parched and feverishly warm. “Sleep.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Sleep, Watches

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• We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

  Yukio Mishima

  Betrayal, Trying, Daggers

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• ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. I think of all the judgment from society, friends, and family, the overwhelming consensus seeming to be that you should not grant someone who betrayed you a second chance. That you should do everything you can to keep the knife out of your back, and to protect your heart and pride. Cowards give second chances. Fools give second chances. And I am no coward, no fool.

  Emily Giffin

  Mother, Heart, Pride

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• Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.

  Philip Pullman

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

  Glen Duncan

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Mind

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.46, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life. She'd betrayed him. He smiled faintly.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Wife, Devil, Mountain

  Karen Marie Moning (2005). “Spell of the Highlander”, Random House LLC

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• She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

  Philippa Gregory

  Daughter, Mother, Never Stop Loving

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• I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Trusted, Haymitch

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.302, Scholastic

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• Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Lying, Grief

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.655, Bantam

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• September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Feelings, Lasts

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.500, Macmillan

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• It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

  David Levithan

  Lonely, Body, Awful

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK

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• Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

  Ken Follett

  Men, Betray

  Ken Follett (2010). “Code to Zero”, p.143, Pan Macmillan

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• And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

  Stephen Crane

  Fate, Soldier, Enemy

  Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.61, Broadview Press

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