Johnny Mercer Quotes

I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

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.

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.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

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

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.

The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.