Quote by Maziar Bahari

“Was that all life really was? A series of betrayals? Was there no way we could avoid damaging each other?”

— Marshall Thornton

“As with so many other aspects of our lives, we were never prepared for trouble. We just tried like hell to get out of…

— Lisa Kleypas

“The truth was, everybody needed to be saved at one point or another in their lives. I guess it was just my turn.”

— Barbara C. Doyle

“I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we…

— Kiersten White

“Not that I could really be a sacrifice in this makeshift panic room. But I would someday. I wouldn’t have to look for it,…

— Rachel Higginson

“When you betrayed someone, you didn’t just betray them, you betrayed your families, your community, an entire way of life.”

— Dana Stabenow

“There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not…

— Patricia Briggs

“That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could…

— Louise Penny

“We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident,”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The worst things were cowardly acts of betrayal. Betraying a friend and in the process betraying yourself. He knew all about that.”

— Elizabeth Hay

“We were killing ourselves by trying to stay alive.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.”

— Paulo Coelho