betrayal

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a90a6a1	Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword	bravery courage love remorse betrayal	Oscar Wilde
1f2c0a8	"Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?" Her stomach twisted. "No." She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn't had the gift before? That she couldn't have used it against him? "I would never lie--" The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. "I'm so sorry," she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. "You're even more painful to look at than she is."	love cinder marissa-meyer prince-kai betrayal	Marissa Meyer
64a957c	Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.	betrayal	Agatha Christie
94a41fc	Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.	handle betrayal	Christine Feehan
95dba26	Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.	clever cleverness deceiving betrayal	George R.R. Martin
6ae4384	"Aelin hissed, "Need I remind you Captain, that you went to Endovier and did not blink at the slaves and the mass graves? Need I remind you that I was starved and chained and you let Duke Perrington force me to the ground at Dorian's feet while you did nothing? And now you have the nerve to accuse me of not caring, when many of the people in this city have profited off the blood and misery of the very people you ignored?"	celeana-sardothien chaol-westfall throne-of-glass queen-of-shadows betrayal	Sarah J. Maas
b912bc0	You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.	cunning misanthropic masks hypocrisy traitor perception deceit betrayal	Molière
42da48b	You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.	family love guilty betrayal rue guilt	Holly Black
4131837	"Would you ever sleep with me?" he questioned once. "Never," she'd replied, her large eyes shining in the bluish glow from his TV set, "but I love you... in a different way. I'll always be loyal to you, I'll never betray you, that's how I love people."	sleep television love glow asexuality loyal betrayal	Rebecca McNutt
c437587	"Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn't quite recognize", Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the	television politics friendship diana-princess-of-wales martin-walker-reporter marty-peretz nightline presidency-of-bill-clinton sidney-blumenthal the-guardian the-new-republic university-of-oxford pettiness oxford argumentation mother-teresa bill-clinton journalism united-states england betrayal london new-york	Christopher Hitchens
fd9be33	...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.	secret love confront undeclared unspoken betray reveal betrayal desire	Robin Hobb
7337ff0	"Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation." "What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?" "An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife." Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked. "Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong. Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it. "You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly. "I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong."	comeuppance enderverse julian-delphinki osc pwn pwned shadow-saga suriyawong achilles-de-flandres bean own owned just-desserts payback justice betrayal	Orson Scott Card
514561c	Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than Richard Nixon. For the last twenty-six years of his life he worked as an informant for the FBI and turned his friends into the police and betrayed the peace symbol he hid behind.	hunter-s-thompson timothy-leary fbi betrayal police	Hunter S. Thompson
79f1f84	Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?	virtue good goodness life betrayed bursting younger older trivial ideals virtuous years frank old frankness betray important understand ideal experience charm knowledge betrayal young	John Fowles
0d39d7c	It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due	quote betrayal loyalty	Muriel Spark
48315c9	The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks.	trust sects organizations groups society traitor betrayal loyalty	Ricardo Piglia
1b7e800	"I've made her relive, over and over, the last few days," I say softly, watching Ms. White's body. "I've had to fill in the blanks with my own feelings and experiences. She's spiraling around those last moments, those times when she went against me, and she's feeling it from my side, the pain, the betrayal." She thinks she's awake. I'm doing to her just what she did to me. I'm making her feel what it was like to slowly go crazy, to question everything. To watch my mother die. To fight for my life against my best friend. To feel the man who loved me try to kill me. To know that the woman I trusted as much as my own mother betrayed me. That's what I'm making her feel. I've turned her into me, and made her live the life she forced me to live. Over and over and over again."	days jadis-white relive ella-shepard the-body-electric hurting-people feeling betrayal	Beth Revis
b029f05	But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!	indecency no-more-parades parade-s-end sylvia-tietjens betrayal loyalty	Ford Madox Ford
4042f15	He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.	hazan khaled-hosseini betrayal	Khaled Hosseini
13108f6	International big business has made revolutions before now to safeguard its interests. At one time it made them ... in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Now, with Socialism to fight, it makes them in the name of Law and Order and Sound Finance. Assassination? If an assassination is going to be good for business, then there will be an assassination.	capitalism revolution regime-change self-interest spy big-business betrayal	Eric Ambler
afecad6	Jack prese la lettera, borbotto uno <> e si ritiro. Torno poco dopo, piu alto, piu dritto nella persona, il volto raggiante. <> Afferro la mano di Stephen, fissandolo con infinita benevolenza. <> Si guardo intorno in uno stato di frastornata felicita, poi estrasse il violino dalla custodia, il violino rimasto a lungo in ozio, e si lancio in un virtuosismo straordinario, interrotto dal fischietto del nostromo quando il comandante Fanshawe fu accolto a bordo.	marriage happiness love make-peace betrayal	Patrick O'Brian

a90a6a1

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

bravery courage love remorse betrayal

Oscar Wilde

1f2c0a8

"Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?" Her stomach twisted. "No." She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn't had the gift before? That she couldn't have used it against him? "I would never lie--" The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. "I'm so sorry," she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. "You're even more painful to look at than she is."

love cinder marissa-meyer prince-kai betrayal

Marissa Meyer

64a957c

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

betrayal

Agatha Christie

94a41fc

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

handle betrayal

Christine Feehan

95dba26

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

clever cleverness deceiving betrayal

George R.R. Martin

6ae4384

"Aelin hissed, "Need I remind you Captain, that you went to Endovier and did not blink at the slaves and the mass graves? Need I remind you that I was starved and chained and you let Duke Perrington force me to the ground at Dorian's feet while you did nothing? And now you have the nerve to accuse me of not caring, when many of the people in this city have profited off the blood and misery of the very people you ignored?"

celeana-sardothien chaol-westfall throne-of-glass queen-of-shadows betrayal

Sarah J. Maas

b912bc0

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

cunning misanthropic masks hypocrisy traitor perception deceit betrayal

Molière

42da48b

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

family love guilty betrayal rue guilt

Holly Black

4131837

"Would you ever sleep with me?" he questioned once. "Never," she'd replied, her large eyes shining in the bluish glow from his TV set, "but I love you... in a different way. I'll always be loyal to you, I'll never betray you, that's how I love people."

sleep television love glow asexuality loyal betrayal

Rebecca McNutt

c437587

"Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn't quite recognize", Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the

television politics friendship diana-princess-of-wales martin-walker-reporter marty-peretz nightline presidency-of-bill-clinton sidney-blumenthal the-guardian the-new-republic university-of-oxford pettiness oxford argumentation mother-teresa bill-clinton journalism united-states england betrayal london new-york

Christopher Hitchens

fd9be33

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

secret love confront undeclared unspoken betray reveal betrayal desire

Robin Hobb

7337ff0

"Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation." "What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?" "An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife." Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked. "Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong. Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it. "You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly. "I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong."

comeuppance enderverse julian-delphinki osc pwn pwned shadow-saga suriyawong achilles-de-flandres bean own owned just-desserts payback justice betrayal

Orson Scott Card

514561c

Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than Richard Nixon. For the last twenty-six years of his life he worked as an informant for the FBI and turned his friends into the police and betrayed the peace symbol he hid behind.

hunter-s-thompson timothy-leary fbi betrayal police

Hunter S. Thompson

79f1f84

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?

virtue good goodness life betrayed bursting younger older trivial ideals virtuous years frank old frankness betray important understand ideal experience charm knowledge betrayal young

John Fowles

0d39d7c

It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due

quote betrayal loyalty

Muriel Spark

48315c9

The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks.

trust sects organizations groups society traitor betrayal loyalty

Ricardo Piglia

1b7e800

"I've made her relive, over and over, the last few days," I say softly, watching Ms. White's body. "I've had to fill in the blanks with my own feelings and experiences. She's spiraling around those last moments, those times when she went against me, and she's feeling it from my side, the pain, the betrayal." She thinks she's awake. I'm doing to her just what she did to me. I'm making her feel what it was like to slowly go crazy, to question everything. To watch my mother die. To fight for my life against my best friend. To feel the man who loved me try to kill me. To know that the woman I trusted as much as my own mother betrayed me. That's what I'm making her feel. I've turned her into me, and made her live the life she forced me to live. Over and over and over again."

days jadis-white relive ella-shepard the-body-electric hurting-people feeling betrayal

Beth Revis

b029f05

But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

indecency no-more-parades parade-s-end sylvia-tietjens betrayal loyalty

Ford Madox Ford

4042f15

He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

hazan khaled-hosseini betrayal

Khaled Hosseini

13108f6

International big business has made revolutions before now to safeguard its interests. At one time it made them ... in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Now, with Socialism to fight, it makes them in the name of Law and Order and Sound Finance. Assassination? If an assassination is going to be good for business, then there will be an assassination.

capitalism revolution regime-change self-interest spy big-business betrayal

Eric Ambler

afecad6

Jack prese la lettera, borbotto uno <> e si ritiro. Torno poco dopo, piu alto, piu dritto nella persona, il volto raggiante. <> Afferro la mano di Stephen, fissandolo con infinita benevolenza. <> Si guardo intorno in uno stato di frastornata felicita, poi estrasse il violino dalla custodia, il violino rimasto a lungo in ozio, e si lancio in un virtuosismo straordinario, interrotto dal fischietto del nostromo quando il comandante Fanshawe fu accolto a bordo.

marriage happiness love make-peace betrayal

Patrick O'Brian