“No, I says, He stole it agin. He's a thief an a menace an I'm gonna trade him in fer a umberella.”
“We ain't got time fer you to yell at me or fer me to tell you everythin that's happened, so I'm jest gonna cover the main points real quick an then I'm gonna kiss you, he says.”
“A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.”
“Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.”
“Even if he was a thief, he was my thief. I could not push him away anymore.”
“The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.”