“If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.”

“It's hard to tell people who they should hang out with and who they shouldn't, especially if they aren't ready to hear that. You have to let your friends make their own mistakes sometimes. You can't protect them from everything, or else they'll never learn”

“People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.”

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”

“Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.”

“Welcome, thou kind deceiver!Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,Even steal us from ourselves.”