#betray

It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damned article. And Rook. Her sharpest agony. She had invested in this guy. Waited for this guy. Felt something for this guy that went beyond the bedroom ... or wherever else they took each other. Nikki did not give herself easily to a man, and this betrayal by Rook was why. Heat reflected on her answer at the oral boards about her greatest flaw and admitted her reply was a mask. Yes, her identification with her job was total. But her greatest flaw wasn’t overinvestment in her career. It was her reticence to be vulnerable. Unarmed as she was-literally-she had been emotionally so with Rook. That was the gut shot that had blown clean through her soul. ↗

— Richard Castle

#flaws #hurt #introspection #realization #relationships

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray. ↗

— John le Carré

#espionage #love #love

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. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#thirst-for-love #yukio-mishima #love

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#love #pride #love

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

#letting-go #self-belief

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it... ↗

— Megan Johns

#contemporary-romance #innocence #love #romance #women-s-fiction

For the senior officers in Iraq, at least in 2005-2006, the responsibility was to the men at the top, the media, the message, the public back home - anything and everything, it seemed, but the soldiers under their command. And that's the ultimate betrayal of Iraq, the one that disillusioned me in Baghdad and Nineveh and keeps me outraged today. ↗

— Luis Carlos Montalván

#betrayal #iraq #military #outrage #home

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman. ↗

— Stephen King

#cheating #cheating-spouse #love #woman #love

Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh. ↗

— Addison Moore

#enemies #friends #love

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.... ↗

— Nicole Richie

#friendship #friendship