"I'm beginning to think cookies is a code word for something else." "Maybe it is." He tugged on my bag again as he took a confident step back, forcing me down another step. "And just think about it. If cookie was a code word, whatever it symbolizes, it's been in your mouth, sweetheart."

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Source : J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You”, p.22, Harper Collins

J. Lynn

#Thinking Quotes #Steps Quotes #Bags Quotes

“When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.”

Source : Kōshō Uchiyama (1993). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.”
“A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.”
“Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.”
“When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.”

Source : "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots" by Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 05, 2012.
“When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.”
“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”

Source : "Belief". Errol Morris' foreword to the book "The Secret Parts of Fortune" by Ron Rosenbaum, www.errolmorris.com. January 2000.
“If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who does not think like a free person. He places a magical aura around whoever is in charge and only thinks they can wield power. This will come up again in other areas, such as letting government make economic decisions but fearing individual people making those decisions themselves.”

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