1,103 Quotes About Betrayal

When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.

...fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fucked over.

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.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.

Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.