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Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader. — Morris Gleitzman

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal? — Hanya Yanagihara

A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships. — Anthony Liccione

In science, compromise is a betrayal of truth. — Ludwig Von Mises

ust as loyalty, betrayal is a two way street. Before you start cheating on/for something, the same gears up instantaneously to kick your a** — Bhavik Sarkhedi

beauty is the currency of betrayal! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Do me the kindness of at least scraping me from the bottom of your shoes. — Kels Adeline Sapp

You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean ... — John Geddes

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

Terror owned Adam. The old terror, the one that was just as much confusion and betrayal as fear itself. — Maggie Stiefvater

We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship. — Paul Hoffman

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own. — Publilius Syrus

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death. — Hallie Burnett

No lie, secret, betrayal, or mistake will remain concealed if you have a past. — Mande Chambers

Yet loyalty must run two ways, or else become betrayal in the egg. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I love to talk to flowers. They are sensitive. And sometimes I just want to have couple of wings and fly away ... Will you ever notice? — Galina Nelson

Never be a slave of loyalty to unloyal people. — Shannon L. Alder

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for. — Felicia Day

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all. — Jean Genet

Our ability to transcend betrayal is directly tied to our willingness to identify ourselves as love activists rather than victims of the Universe. — Lyna Jones

What is the etiquette for betrayal? — Kyra Davis

His workplace has become a rat's nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft. — Thomas Pynchon

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. — Neetesh Dixit

I have striven never to betray myself — Jude Morgan

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! — Ashim Shanker

Smell remembers and tells the future ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers. — Cherrie Moraga

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M Valente

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew. — A. Esquivel

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent. — Oscar Wilde

We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My dreams of another. — Roman Payne

And every word sounded both a defence against what he truly felt and a betrayal of all that he was. — Richard Flanagan

So the fox killed his brother, the wolf. (Mother Scaer) — Joe Abercrombie

I can love what is broken. — Carla H. Krueger

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ... — Megan Johns

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Jesus came to be with the Father for an interlude before his betrayal, but found hell rather than heaven opened before him, and he staggered. — William Lane

There reaches a time when it is betrayal for a woman to sleep with her husband. — Wheston Chancellor Grove

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. — Toba Beta

What had seemed like love was betrayal — Claudia Gray

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. — William Feather

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. — L.M. Montgomery

To love without criticism is to be betrayed. — Djuna Barnes

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. — Suzanne Collins

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy. — Stacey T. Hunt

The greatest betrayal is betraying yourself. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it. — Subhash Kak

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend
So horrid as in woman. — William Shakespeare

Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic. — Galt Niederhoffer

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

False friends, like weeds, try very hard to appear genuine. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The surprise element of her betrayal was what burned me the most. The fact that I never saw it coming. — Emily Giffin

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

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Trust is the ultimate betrayal — K.M. Golland

Sometimes I think my life is nothing but one long process of bodily betrayal. — Jonathan Franzen

When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself. — Drew Karpyshyn

When we encounter sorrow and betrayal stay present and learn. There is a lesson waiting to unfold, allow yourself to soften into the experience. — Gillian Elizabeth

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal. — James Cook

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. — Blaise Pascal

In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust. — Brandon Sanderson

I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku. — Hiroyuki Sanada

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best. — Ralph Steadman

The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember. — Katie Klein

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. — Louis Farrakhan

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. — Henry David Thoreau

Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them. — Auliq Ice

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal? — Jean Renoir

Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime. — J.E.B. Spredemann

It's a bitter truth but we humans are the only creature in this universe who not only fed up with things but also by other human beings. — M.H. Rakib

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

betrayal knife does not visible in body's back Because it's directly hot Soul and Injured There — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is full of unfairness but you'll have to deal with it, as long as you're able to take a breath. — Auliq Ice

Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin. — Anthony Ryan

Instead of what a betrayal it is to be lied to, how rare and wonderful it is when two human beings can tell each other the truth. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

The courier of wolves the daughter the dance.
Hopeless.
Betrayal.
Forbidden.
Departure. — C.J. Redwine

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us. — Sam Tanenhaus

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity - akin to torture. — Sandra Lee Dennis

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher. — Elaine Pagels

He needed to go back to Pink Lips, but first he needed to deal with his brother's betrayal. — Leo Sullivan

A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome. — Tina Samples

There is no honour in betraying your friends. — Madeline Miller

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will. — Peter J. Carroll

Anyone who has been betrayed carries that betrayal inside himself. How — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Never trust a promise — Jill Hucklesby

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright. — N.K. Jemisin

I'm grateful for past betrayals, heartaches, and challenges ... I thought they were breaking me; but they were sculpting me. — Steve Maraboli

A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone. — Jean Genet

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal. — Dada Bhagwan

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind. — Robin Hobb

You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends. — Brian D. Anderson

Betrayal is sacred when the heart can encompass the whole. — Nancy Wait

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be. — Marian Keyes

Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves. — Pierce Brown

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter. — Jodi Picoult

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people. — Mario Diaz-Balart