Shattered Trust Quotes

When I was younger, my family suddenly and unexpectedly lost all of our life savings to a man we had trusted as a friend. The financial loss was difficult, especially because my sister and I were both in college. But the breach of trust was even more painful.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night you picked it up to read yourself to sleep and the binding collapsed, sending dozens of pages spiraling toward the floor.

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

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.

It is one thing to go through a divorce, and quite another to have the rug ripped out from under you in a very publicly humiliating way.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

The reputation of a woman is like glass; once cracked, it cannot be repaired.

The people you are supposed to be able to trust the most is your family, and when that trust is broken, it's painful.

When I was seven months pregnant with Ariana, my husband cheated on me, so I became a single mother to a four-year-old and a newborn.

Wife number four destroyed me absolutely: took me down to the bottom of the barrel because I had three kids with her.

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

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have suspected. But there were others who had been barely acquaintances of mine whose loyalty and efforts on my behalf made me realize that not everyone was as inherently rotten as I'd previously believed. So it caused a violent split in my view of humanity - people turned out to be far worse and far better than I'd ever dreamed possible.

If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.

The wife's run off with the bloke next door. I do miss him.

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.

In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.