Strike said “Huh” again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.

For if you try to forget yourself, force your heart and thoughts to become indifferent to the sight before you and take share of that entity which seems like one of the courses of the...

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Many partners of addicts have told me they feel bad about themselves for staying in the relationship because of the betrayal they’ve experienced. They imagine that the people who know their past judge them to...

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

Ah,” she cried, “you look so cool.” Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool,” she repeated.She...

Unlike people, God will never turn His back on you. Trust in Him with all your heart, and you will never have to worry about being betrayed.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

If you won’t be my friend, you’ll regret being my enemy

Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The relationship between father and daughter, adult male and female child, is one of...

She waited, thinking you were different from those who used and betrayed her. She believed you would find her, come charging to her rescue. That belief was as misplaced as the monsters we faced were...

Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.

A red veil covers the room as walls, which flow but do not stand. Screams echo from every stone. Incense I smell of sandalwood and lavender, and lavender I taste as well. A tea, a...

good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to...

I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th’ election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th’ occurents, more and less,Which have solicited – the rest is...

Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person,...

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself–if that’s what it comes to.

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

I have not betrayed Julia.

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves

Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.

Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I...

Every day, streets papered with more and more for .Reward, reward, reward.Reward for information.If you see something, say something.A paper town, a paper world: paper rustling in the airm whispering to me, hissing out a...

You’re just jealous,” I said.”You can believe what you want,” Aaron said. “But somebody’s stealing from the Grimm Collection. They’re either taking the objects or somehow sucking out their magic. Doc and theh librarians are...

I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –

….I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another’s humanity—akin to torture.

This little girl will guard her tower with the most vicious dragon of all: indifference.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with...

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.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and...

And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men...

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there’s no defense against that.

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.

I’d rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I’m on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very “poetry of his soul”.Well,it’s not easy but men do it all...

Growth is betrayal.

Verträge bricht man um des Nutzens willen.

Would you invest your money in a company that ALWAYS showed a loss? Then why invest your heart in someone that has no intention of buying it? Renting my heart is not an option.

In that moment, hell may have ascended,Or heaven may have descended only to save me and prove,What I carry is an exaggerated memory of an imagined beautiful love.This love is tainted with treachery; it will...

When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and...

Well, she didn’t lock us up in closets.” in fact, my mother behaved much worse than that, but by focusing on the empty closet, I avoided looking at what waited beyond it.

No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.

Let’s say a Soviet exchange student back in the ’70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he’d seen and done and been involved with. This is not...

Self-betrayal occurs when we do to another what we sense we should not do or don’t do what we sense we should. Thus self-betrayal is a sort of moral self-compromise, a violation of our own...

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!

Cheat, defeat, repeat.