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Betrayal. That’s the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would have had to been trust first.


Suzanne Collins

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SHERRILYN KENYON Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
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CARL STEPHENS Betrayal is beautiful.
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REBECCA SOLNIT You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
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HILARIE BURTON The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.
JAMES DASHNER Friendship's enemy is betrayal.
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GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.
GREG ALBRECHT Trust is the first step to love.
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COURTNEY BROWN I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I ...
HOWARD ARNOLD WALTER We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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KIRK WATSON ...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that adv...
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SUSIE L HILL Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.
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ARTHUR MILLER I never tolerate disrespect or betrayal
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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.
J.E.B. SPREDEMANN Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
JEAN RENOIR I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.
DADA BHAGWAN Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
SUZANNE COLLINS I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
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DEYTH BANGER Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
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CORNEL WEST Betrayal does so many different things to people.
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DR. KEITH SILLER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
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NINA JACOBSON The pain of their losses has been compounded by the betrayal of their own government,
CONNIE MACK I may have trust issues, but some people seem to have an issue with the responsibility of being trus...
MELCHOR LIM betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.
BILL COSBY an act of utter betrayal.
GROVER NORQUIST The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustratio...
CHARLES BRONSON It feels so bitter getting a kiss for a betrayal.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme...
SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.
SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
SUZANNE COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates.

And what...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch...
SUZANNE COLLINS Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
SUZANNE COLLINS The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...
SUZANNE COLLINS hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
SUZANNE COLLINS So what should we do with our last few days?”
“I just want to spend every possible minute o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.
SUZANNE COLLINS Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt...
SUZANNE COLLINS But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.
SUZANNE COLLINS Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
SUZANNE COLLINS It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s...
SUZANNE COLLINS But some secrets are too delicious not to share.
SUZANNE COLLINS If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m...
SUZANNE COLLINS