No se le hab|¤a ocurrido pensar hasta entonces que la literatura fuera el mejor juguete que se hab|¤a inventado para burlarse de la gente. It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

-Garc|¤  a Ma¤ r quez, Gabriel
  Cien an‹  os de soledad (translated as One HundredYears of Solitude,1970).

I was their plaything and their idol, and something betterötheir child.

-Shelley, Mary Godwin
  Frankenstein, speaking of his parents. Frankenstein, ch.1.

   Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

-Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.2.