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  • #1
    Malcolm X
    “To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Veronica Roth
    “I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: betrayal, hurt, pain, trust
    834 likes

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  • #3
    Danka V.
    “What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
    wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was
    what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but
    also by, as I once believed, a true friend.”
    ― Danka V., The Unchosen Life
    tags: betrayal, cheating, love
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  • #4
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
    tags: betrayal, broken-promise, trust
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  • #5
    Toba Beta
    “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

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  • #6
    Brandon Sanderson
    “I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: anger, betrayal, frustration, hurt, love, pain
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  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: betrayal
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  • #8
    Arthur Miller
    “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
    ― Arthur Miller
    tags: betrayal, friendship, reality
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  • #9
    George Orwell
    “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: betrayal, confession, love
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  • #10
    Charlotte Featherstone
    “It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.”
    ― Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted
    tags: betrayal, lindsay, lost-love, love, yearning
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  • #11
    Whitney Otto
    “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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  • #12
    Agatha Christie
    “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.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
    tags: antipathy, betrayal
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  • #13
    “It's effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It's challenging to let go of someone you care about and it's exceedingly difficult to let go of an ideal and a belief in someone because what exacerbates the disappointment of finding out they weren't who they presented themselves to be, is the betrayal of it.”
    ― Donna Lynn Hope
    tags: betrayal, letting-go
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  • #14
    Grace Willows
    “You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
    ― Grace Willows, To Kiss a King
    tags: adventure, alpha, alpha-male, amour, betrayal, books, choice, comedy, danger, daydream, daydreams, deceipt, deception, desire, drama, e-book, erotic, everlasting, exotic, fear, forever-love, fun, guns, hope, hot, hot-intrigue, killer, king, life-changing, longing, love, love-at-first-sight, lovers, marriage, memories, murder, palace, passion, passionate, prince, proposal, psychotic, queen, rescue, revenge, romance, romantic, royal, royalty, scary, sex, sexy, soul-mate, soul-searching, sunset, survival, terror, timeless
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    Thomas Moore
    “Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”
    ― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
    tags: betrayal, disappointment, love, soul, tragedies
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  • #16
    Paula Stokes
    “When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.”
    ― Paula Stokes, Liars, Inc.
    tags: betrayal, feelings
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  • #17
    “Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.”
    ― John le Carré, The Looking Glass War
    tags: betrayal, espionage, love
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  • #18
    J.E.B. Spredemann
    “Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.”
    ― J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret
    tags: betrayal, disloyalty, loyalty, trust
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  • #19
    David Rovics
    “They'll say you are bad
    or perhaps you are mad
    or at least you
    should stay undercover.
    Your mind must be bare
    if you would dare
    to think you can love
    more than one lover.”
    ― David Rovics
    tags: agape, believe, betrayal, break-up, broken, cheat, cheater, cheating, closet, commitment, communication, consent, control, cry, depressed, desire, dirty, divorce, divorced, dream, empowering, end, ended, eros, family, fear, feelings, feminism, forever, freedom, friends, friendship, gone, happiness, heartbreak, heartbroken, hearts, honesty, horny, human, humanity, hurt, infidelity, jealousy, jerk, keep, keeper, keepers, live, lost, lovers, monogamy, nasty, need, nonmonogamy, pain, partners, peace, plural, polyamory, polyandry, polycule, polygamy, polygyny, possessive, quad, queer, real, relationship, respect, romantic, sad, share, sharing, slut, sluts, sorrow, spice, spouse, stay, suffering, sweet, sweethearts, swinging, team, threesome, time, triad, trouble, truth, undercover, unfaithful, unicorn, unity, valentine, valentines, value, wisdom, wishes, yolo
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  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: betrayal, poison
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  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: betrayal, malediction
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  • #22
    “Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.”
    ― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories (Omnibus): How The Great American Opioid Epidemic of The 21st Century Began - a Memoir
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, betrayal, cheating, emotions, pain, suicide
    90 likes

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  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “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, Handle with Care
    tags: betrayal, two-faced-people
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  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “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”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    tags: 1897, betrayal, bravery, courage, love, remorse
    2263 likes



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