Richard Paul Evans Quotes

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

What had seemed like love was betrayal

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

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

Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

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

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

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.

I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you really cared for somebody, then that was it. It never occurred to me that people could lie about the way they felt about you. I had to learn that the hard way.

If you've had a marriage that ended because of a betrayal in trust on your spouse's behalf, the idea of trusting another person with your heart can seem completely ridiculous.

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?

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

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me.

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

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

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.

Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.