Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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.

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

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.

She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn’t imagine why. It couldn’t possibly matter why.

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart

Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on.

The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.

I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out, and they're working it out on your time and with your heart.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

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

Betrayal does so many different things to people.

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

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.