“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.”

“I have striven never to betray myself”

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”

“True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after all. So what was the fairy-tale protocol for other kisses? The mundane kind that didn't break any spells?Maybe it would be easy - like holding his hand or having his arms around me. Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't fell like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself.”

“The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.”

“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”