Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I'll probably always love him. Doesn't mean I can ever trust him again. That doesn't make a relationship.

Betrayal is beautiful.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

True love is tested when betrayed.

I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships.

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.

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.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

I've been hurt quite a few times.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

It's hard to stop loving someone on cue, especially when he's still so kind and loving toward you.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.