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Steven Lilien

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I can sneak up on you or be right in front of you without you even knowing. But when I reveal myself, you will never be the same. What am I?

— Edward Nygma / The Riddler (Cory Michael Smith), Gotham, Season 3: Mad City: Smile Like You Mean It

Riddles Betrayal

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In the darkness, there are no rules. So, tonight Gotham, do what you want. Kill who you want. And when morning comes, you too shall be reborn.

— Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan), Gotham, Season 3: Mad City: Smile Like You Mean It

Darkness Rules Murder Morning reborn

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We all could go insane with just one bad day.

— Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan), Gotham, Season 4: A Dark Knight: Mandatory Brunch Meeting

Insanity Going Crazy crazy

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Lunatics and idiots? Ooh, my kind of people.

— Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan), Gotham, Season 3: Mad City: Smile Like You Mean It

Crazy People Love Being With Crazy People

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Lunatics and idiots? Ooh, my kind of people.

— Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan), Gotham, Season 3: Mad City: Smile Like You Mean It

Lunatics idiots Fam

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Wow. You miss a lot being dead.

— Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan), Gotham, Season 3: Mad City: Smile Like You Mean It

Understatement Death

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Related quotes to Steven Lilien tagged Riddles, Betrayal, Darkness

We solve those riddles from which we suffer, but not those which please us.

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

Ethics Life Ethics Riddles Suffering

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I’m strong as a rock, but a word can destroy me. What am I?

— Edward Nygma / The Riddler (Cory Michael Smith), Gotham, Season 2: Wrath of the Villains: This Ball of Mud and Meanness

confusing Riddles

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How the hell do we catch an invisible man?

— Det. Yarbrough (Michael O'Neill), Criminal Minds, Season 3: About Face

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A nightmare for some. For others, a savior, I come. My hands, cold and bleak, it’s the warm hearts they seek.

— Edward Nygma / The Riddler (Cory Michael Smith), Gotham, Season 2: Wrath of the Villains: Into The Woods

Nightmare Riddles

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The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

Sadness Riddles

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The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from enemies, it comes from those you trust the most.

— XXXTENTACION, Facebook Post - June 2018

Betrayal Stabbed In The Back

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Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

Betrayal Traitor Don't Trust Too Much Trust and Betrayal

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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

— Tennessee Williams, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume 2: Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real

Trust Betrayal Independence Solitude

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Hell is when people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can.

— Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

Hurting Betrayal

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Why is it that loving something provides so little protection from betrayal?

— Ayelet Waldman, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Love Heartbreak Loving Someone Betrayal vulnerability

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It’s the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

— Dorothy Koomson, Goodnight, Beautiful

Betrayal Disappointment Disloyalty

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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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I regret opening up to some people; they didn’t deserve to know me like that.

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

Trust Betrayal Break Up Friendship Relationship Single

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She looked as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

— Miranda July, The First Bad Man

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You see, we’re tired, my heart and I,
We dealt with books, we trusted men,
And in our own blood drenched the pen.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, My Heart And I (The Collected Poems)

Tired Heartbroken Betrayal

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I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.

— Mary Kubica, The Good Girl

Betrayal Disappointment

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You mean my crime of passion? If anyone betrays me, I never forget!

— Uncle Leo (Len Lesser), Seinfeld, Season 9: The Bookstore

Crime of Passion Revenge Betrayal

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Tell her how it feels to be betrayed by the person you love most in the world.

— Alex Cole (Tommy Dewey), Casual, Season 2: Phase 3

Betrayal Love Heartache

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Dad, I'm confused. So you should trust people until they betray you, and then try to blow them up?

— Bobby Hill (Pamela Adlon), King of the Hill, Season 12: The Accidental Terrorist

Trust Betrayal Terrorism

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… I trust you, I mean I’ve considered
that you could betray me …

— Carl Phillips, Blizzard

Love Poetry Trust poem Writers Poets Betrayal

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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

— George Orwell, 1984 (Signet Classics)

Confession Betrayal Love Feelings

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[T]he pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

— Theodore Roosevelt, Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics

Pacifism Traitors Betrayal humanity

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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.

— Garry Shandling, What I've Learned: Garry Shandling

Betrayal Cheating

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So are you here to hear the truth. It's full of betrayal.

— Johnny Depp, The Trouble With Johnny Depp

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The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.

— Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Hell circles of hell Betrayal Mutineer

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What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend.

— Danka V., The Unchosen life

Cheating Betrayal Heartbreak

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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

Seek Discover Courage coward Betrayal

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Look, Serena, stop trying to pretend you're a good girl. So you slept with your best friend's boyfriend. I kind of admire you for it.

— Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), Gossip Girl, Season 1: The Wild Brunch

good girl Betrayal Cheating admiration

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Here's the thing: best friends never talk bad behind your back no matter how bad shit gets.

— Sade Andria Zabala, A Breakup Letter To My Best Friend

Friendship Betrayal Gossip Backstab

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I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

— Tiger Woods, via news.bbc.co.uk

Betrayal hurt Apologies

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Oh, I remember when Stanley told me he was having an affair. It was at least 24 hours before I cut the crotches out of all his slacks.

— Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak (Bea Arthur), The Golden Girls, Season 2: Son-in-Law Dearest

Cheating Betrayal Revenge

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Quiet! You shut up! You make me change restaurant, but nobody comes! You say make Pakistani, Babu Bhatt have only Pakistani restaurant. But where are people? You see people? Show me people. There are no people.

— Babu Bhatt (Brian George), Seinfeld, Season 3: The Cafe

Betrayal fury Anger Failure

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“I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.

— Wilfred Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen

Betrayal Enemy Fight surprise

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When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

— Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Pain Stabbing Betrayal

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It's a hot night. The mind races. You think about your knife; the only friend who hasn't betrayed you, the only friend who won't be dead by sun-up. Sleep tight, mates, in your quilted Chambray nightshirts.

— Eddie (Ned Bellamy), Seinfeld, Season 8: The Fatigues

Psychosis Horror Knives Betrayal

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The most painful thing is not the betrayal of trust, June. Do you know what's most painful? The most painful thing in this entire ugly incident is the ingratitude.

— Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), The Handmaid's Tale, Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum

Trust Betrayal Pain ugly Ingratitude

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Finally, she said: ‘I’m lonely’ — it’s weird but you tell the wolves things, sometimes. You can’t help it, all these old wounds come open and suddenly you’re confessing to a wolf who never says anything back. She said: 'I’m lonely,’ and they ate her in the street.

— Catherynne M. Valente, The Wolves of Brooklyn

Lonely Tired BPD Bad Friends Overshare Betrayal

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I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire

Love Pain Betrayal Anger Frustration

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Six months after #emailgate, the couple broke up because, as he put it, 'things were getting too intense and some things just weren't working out.'

— Brianna Sacks, This Clarinetist's Career Was Derailed By His Ex-Girlfriend Who Deleted His Scholarship Letter

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Any fool can love somebody who’s perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn’t stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they’ve hurt you.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Hot Shot

Love Relationships Betrayal Perserverance Choosing Love Pain Heartbreak Heartache

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Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

— Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Ed: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Disappointment Love Betrayal

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We weren't friends. Friends tell the truth, friends don't turn on each other.

— Jessica Davis (Alisha Boe), 13 Reasons Why, Season 1: Tape 1, Side B

Friends Honesty liars Betrayal

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We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix

Light Darkness Good Evil Choice

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Even in the darkest night, if you strike a match, the shadows will flee. This is a law of nature; the darkness yields to the light, no matter how small the flame.

— Jared White, A Quote by Jared White

Nature shadow Darkness Light

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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

Love Light way Endurance Darkness Hope Stars Perspective Life Inspirational

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And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories

Silence Darkness Language

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I never thought of her as a thing to be considered by daylight. The many times I had seen her, none had been in the day. I expected her like I expected the moon.

— John Fante, Ask the Dust

Love Expectations Darkness mysterious Impressions

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