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• At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

  Mark Twain

  Sea, Clothes, Noon

  Mark Twain (2008). “Roughing It: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.249, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

  Jonathan Carroll

  Giving, Friendly, Faces

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “A Child Across the Sky”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• My heart has been stolen by you.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Heart, My Heart, Has Beens

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• Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he had the best security system in Istanbul." His breath was warm on the back of her neck. "He was mistaken.

  Ally Carter

  Nice, Boys, Men

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cat, Eye, Kissing

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• Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

  Jim Henson

  Strong, Children, Cities

  "Fictional character: Sarah". Labyrinth, www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Female, Tongue

  1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

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• Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

  Dorothy Allison

  Mother, Pieces

  Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.43, Penguin

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• ...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

  Lloyd Alexander

  Writing, Ignorance, People

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• Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

  Octavia Butler

  Liars, Lying, Tyrants

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media

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• Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Hair, People

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.244, Ballantine Books

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• Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sorry, Rip, Heart

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• So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Scotland, Knowing

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• Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

  Mark Helprin

  Forever, Would Be, Fool

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die. - Ty from Stolen

  Lucy Christopher

  Heart, Bottles, Needs

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• Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it, little snowflake, but know it won't make a bit of difference until after puberty. It's Newton's lost law: anything that makes you unique later will get your chocolate milk stolen and your eye blackened as a kid. Won't it, Sebastian? Oh, yes, it will, my little Mandarin Chinese-learning, Poe-reciting, high-top-wearing friend. God bless you, wherever you are.

  Sloane Crosley

  Teacher, Believe, Kids

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.60, Portobello Books

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• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Plagiarism, Suspicious

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jokes

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• I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

  Nathan Fillion

  Gun, Serenity, Trophies

  "Sunday with...Nathan Fillion". parade.com. March 13, 2011.

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• Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

  Lydia Lunch

  Eye, Thinking, Lunch

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• Magic can be found in stolen moments.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Magic, Moments, Found

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• In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

  John Irving

  Loss, Childhood, Events

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back." "You're kidding, right?" He shrugged. "You have no proof either." She squinted back at him. "Were you planning on giving it back?" "Maybe." An orange light blinked on in the corner of Cinder's vision-her cyborg programming picking up on the lie.

  Marissa Meyer

  Lying, Thinking, Light

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• When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Good Day, Cat

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