" 1} But the humble mushroom is proof that sometimes the best things in life are found growing wild and free right under your nose. Don't rush so fast, that you can't see the wild mushrooms around you. (Pg no. 87)

2} Had life been more simple then? When it was harder merely to survive, did people get on with it and not tangle themselves in knots over who they were and why life had shaped them a certain way? (Pg no. 122)

3} Lists can be self-defeating. Lists can become a way to lessen the importance of something. It's too enormous to cope with, so we break it down into a list and then it has less power over us. And that's shutting the door on what we have to deal with. (Pg no. 142)

4} Life is about getting by. Surviving. It's never perfect and we self-sabotage for any number of reasons, but if you try to understand all that about yourself, you can be happy. (Pg no. 143)

5} The problem with running away is that the problem runs with you. (Pg no. 361)

6} Keep it light, never let them know know how you feel. But that doesn't always work out. Sometimes you had to let people know how you felt. Keeping it light, concealing your true feelings, meant nobody knew you. You were a mystery, and being a mystery was all well and good, but it was a lonely way to live. (Pg no. 403) "

― Cathy Kelly , Homecoming