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Quotes About Abduction

There are not many things that can happen much worse to a family than having a member taken and not knowing what happened to them.
~ Joan Allen
He'd of took you boy. Like a bride to the altar.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Abduction is the process of forming an explanatory hypothesis. It is the only logical operation which introduces any new idea; for induction does nothing but determine a value and deduction merely evolves the necessary consequences of a pure hypothesis.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
In our own time, when child abduction has become epidemic and even our milk cartons are imprinted with the faces of the missing, that truth has been confirmed with dismaying regularity.
~ Harold Schechter
Did they probe you yet?" Xandy asked Riley. "They always get around to probing you. That's what the other abductees tell me, anyway.
~ Janet Evanovich
How it was. How it was that the earth could open up under you and swallow you whole, close above you as if you never were. Like Persephone snatched by the god. The ground opened up and out he came, sweeping her into the black chariot. Then down they plunged, under the ground, into the darkness, and the earth closed over her head, and she was gone, as if she had never been.
~ Janet Fitch
I Will Follow Anyone And Tell EveryoneHow They Abduct...And Torture ChildrenIn the Name Of Religion
~ Widad Akreyi
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
~ Michael Shermer
It's a mystery to me how kidnappers ever get caught.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Africans believed they were being captured and shipped over the ocean to be eaten. The insecurity of life in a world of slavery is hard to imagine, let alone the extraordinary length of time that the threat of abduction loomed.
~ Christine Kenneally
Totalitarian power thrives when it alienates people from basic information about themselves. When European slavers abducted people from Africa, they essentially took away their history as well.
~ Christine Kenneally
Two of the common elements in alien abduction scenarios are missing time and screen memories.
~ Unknown
Sunny, by all the moons, quit feeling sorry for dragons who want to abduct you and sell you off.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Someone's really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?
~ Holly Black
Fat people are harder to kidnap...You never read in the paper that the victim of an abduction weighed in at three-fifty. They're always skinny broads like you who get carted away. It's simply a fact.
~ Linda Fairstein
Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.
~ Tobe Hooper
Every case I worked is closed. All the principals were either abducted and resettled . . . or zeroed," she said, using a verb that I'd heard from time to time if my principal was in a similar line of work. It had become popular among the Mossad. They liked to use shorthand they thought was American. Zero
~ Jeffery Deaver
Now, my mother sniffled, WERE you abducted? Kidnapped? You mean did somebody snatch me? Yes. Well? Why would anybody wanna snatch ME? Megin. Just DID they? Did who? Who's THEY? ANYBODY! Snatch you? I laughed. Jeez no! And she grabbed me again and we cried some more.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Justin: I drive a Prius. Justin: Nobody gets abducted in a Prius, right?
~ Jessica Park
1890s when a farmer walked into his backyard and over his field saw a cigar-shaped craft floating about forty feet off the ground. Below was one of his cows dangling by a thick cord.
~ Unknown
As Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, stared at the young woman who had just barged her way into his London residence, it occurred to him that he might have tried to abduct the wrong heiress last week at Stony Cross Park.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Being fat isn't so bad.. fat people are harder to kidnap!!
~ Unknown
Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone,' he sang.
~ Dennis Lehane
Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
~ Dennis Lehane