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#1

“You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

tags: carthak, daine, dragon, kitten

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#2

“No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together.”
― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

tags: betrayal, family, fighting

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#3

“I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation...or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you...I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too...scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart... Even if it means breaking my own.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

tags: betrayal, denny-harris, hurt, love

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#4

“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 affection.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

tags: affection, betrayal, blame, connection, disrespect, love, self, shame, vulnerability

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#5

“MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE:

When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “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 judge him.

Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:

• He’s not the man I thought he was.
• The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know
what to do
• The relationship may be over.

Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.”
― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

tags: betrayal, compulsive-liars, deceit, liar, lies, pathological-liars, trust

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#6

“I can’t control your behavior; nor do I want that burden… but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.”
― Steve Maraboli

tags: behavior, betrayal, cheaters, disrespected, relationships

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#7

“The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not other people that keep you trapped; it is the entitled role of victim that you enjoy wearing. There is a familiarness to pain that you enjoy because you get a payoff from it. When you figure out what that payoff is then you will finally be on the road to freedom.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#8

“If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved you as dearly as he professes to love Christ, then he would never let anyone that loved him suffer or lower their self worth to be with him. True love is compassion, respect and honorable acts that prove love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: betrayal, character, christlike, compassion, ego, games, honor, honorable-men, lies, morals, players, quality-men, real-love, respect, toying, true-love, values

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#9

“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 the most unequal relationships imaginable. It is no accident that incest occurs most often precisely in the relationship where the female is most powerless. The actual sexual encounter may be brutal or tender, painful or pleasurable; but it is always, inevitably, destructive to the child. The father, in effect, forces the daughter to pay with her body for affection and care which should be freely given. p4”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest

tags: abuse, abuse-of-power, betrayal, betrayed, child-abuse, dysfunctional-relationship, father, incest, patriarch, patriarchal, power, powerless, sexual-abuse, trauma, victimization

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#10

“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest

tags: abuse, adulthood, age-of-consent, betrayal, betrayed, child-abuse, daughter, father, incest, sexual-abuse, trauma

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#11

“No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen to them. Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It is not cheap, and it’s hard to come by, owing partly to the fact that it is the heir of disappointment, frustration, betrayal and deceit. However, it is not the inheritance that matters so much as what you do with it. In the face of seemingly insurmountable problems what do you do, and why do you do it? The same holds for dramatic characters whose strength, courage, insight and wisdom have to be earned.”
― Billy Marshall Stoneking

tags: betrayal, character, deceit, insights, stoneking, writing

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#12

“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#13

“LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!”
― Hayley Williams

tags: begin, flames, game, hayley, hayley-williams, hurt, let, let-the-flames-begin, paramore, revenge, vengeance

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#14

“She was fury, she was wrath, she was vengeance.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

tags: fury, ghost-leopard, lysandra, vengeance, wrath

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#15

“If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: betrayal, bitterness, disappointment, take-root, vengeance

720 likes

#16

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: character, forgiveness, grudge, grudges, holding-grudges, move-on, moving-on, owe, owed, peace, peace-of-mind, revenge, strength, strength-of-character, substance, substantial, unforgiving, vengeance

1290 likes

#17

“I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

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#18

“...And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me.”
― Samantha Young, Blood Will Tell

tags: blood-will-tell, revenge, threat, vengeance

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#19

“No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: computer, computer-hackers, computers, funny, geek, geek-humor, humor, humour, nerd, nerd-humor, nerds, revenge, vengeance

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#20

“And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: providence, vengeance

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#21

“She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.”
― Lisa Papademetriou, Siren's Storm

tags: calypso, dark-hearts, mermaid, rogues, siren, vengeance

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#22

“I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.”
― Sue Grafton, V is for Vengeance

tags: kinsey-millhone, sue-grafton, vengeance

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#23

“But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”
― Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, punishment, the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man, vengeance, victor-hugo

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#24

“And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: good, vengeance, wicked

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#25

“Vengeance is one of life's great motivators.”
― K.S. Brooks, Lust for Danger

tags: determination, special-agent-kathrin-night, vengeance

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#26

“For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.”
― Dennis R. Miller

tags: betrayal, retribution, revenge, vengeance

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#27

“Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.”
― Ken Scholes, Lamentation

tags: justice, peace, vengeance

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#28

“For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.”
― Xavier Forneret

tags: revenge, vengeance

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#29

“Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

tags: getting-even, retaliation, retribution, revenge, richelle, richelle-goodrich, vengeance

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#30

“When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: vengeance

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