Purloined Quotes

Her hair is shiny and gleaming as a stallion`s mane, her eyes big and brown as chocolate jawbreakers, her tiny mouth a rosebud of surprise. Packed into her five-foot, four-inch doll`s frame is an intriguing mixture of purloined innocence, succulent sexuality, and guerrilla warfare. Rex Reed, Valentines and Vitriol, p. 258, 1977.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.