You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.
To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B
But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.
My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
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.
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