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• Honestly? I don’t want people around me for two reasons – they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, you’re screwed and you spend all your time obsessing on why you didn’t see it coming. Or that you did something or didn’t do something to cause it. No offense, but I don’t like to be hurt and I’d rather just avoid it.(Ravyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Two, People

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• Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Secret, Midst

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• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Doe

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A single word often betrays a great design.

  Jean Racine

  Writing, Design, Single Word

  "Athalie". Book by Jean Racine, II. 6, 1691.

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• i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Voice, Knowing, Addiction

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• Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does. Even if we are faithless, He is faithful, for He cannot betray himself. He is a sure God.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Faithful, Mind

  Max Lucado (2013). “Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Betrayal, Enemy

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• 'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!

  Walter Scott

  Love, Revenge, Fate

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.95

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• So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.

  Marc Acito

  Hurt, Book, Fall

  Marc Acito (2009). “How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

  Thomas Ligotti

  People, Insecurity, Panic

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

  Dean Cavanagh

  Betrayal, World, Sometimes

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• And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

  Brandon Sanderson

  Solitude

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.27, Macmillan

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• I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.” He looked at Jaime defiantly. “I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Hands, Should Have

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2203, Bantam

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• I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

  Jules Verne

  Generosity, Gold, World

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)”, p.123, Jules Verne

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• Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Silence, Silent, Said

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.2464, e-artnow

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• Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fall, Cat, Eye

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• Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for a while, and then it fades away. But if one of those lovers betrays the other, then you have a real emotion - then you have something powerful, something that leaves a mark you'll never be rid of. Betrayal is the most delicious of all, but it takes a while to set it up, and fear can be just as intense if you know what you're doing.

  Dan Wells

  Strong, Powerful, Betrayal

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• Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily. His skin felt hot, even through the cloth of her shirt, his touch was both soothing and electric. She leaned into him without thinking. His thighs parted, rough black cloth scratching against her jeans as she moved between his long legs. His eyes half-lidded as he pushed himself off the desk, their bodies sliding together, his hands still holding hers. Then, suddenly, he froze.

  Holly Black

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Criminals, Guilty, Stills

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage

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• And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

  Thomas Wolfe

  Apples, Tree, Magic

  Thomas Wolfe (2006). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Loyalty, Betrayal

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.291, Paradise Publishing

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• There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

  Justina Chen

  Teacher, Class, Speak

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• The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Arrogance, Trends

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