What do you do do when your heart says one thing and your head, and your lawyer, says another? I was a romantic. I put my whole heart on the line when I love someone. ... I don't think like a thief so I never see this quality in others until it's too late. Debbie Reynolds
He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold. Kurt Vonnegut
You dare not think that you ever might experience your self differently: free instead of cowed; open instead of tactical; loving openly instead of like a thief in the night. Wilhelm Reich
Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief. Christopher Pike
The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark. Christopher Pike
Treat me like a rabbi; watch me like a thief. Yiddish Proverb