Rick Riordan Quotes

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

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

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.

The cut in Nick's arm was starting to throb dully with the pressure he was putting on it. He kept looking at Alan. 'How many times have you lied to me?' he asked in a soft voice. Alan replied, equally softly, 'I've lost count.

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

Only your friends steal your books.

Aren’t you afraid one of them will betray you? Take it all away? (Shahara) I’m sure one will eventually, but that’s the least of what keeps me up at night. Trust me, there are a lot worse things in life than loosing a few credits. (Syn)

Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

I will go down with my colours flying.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.