Author: Kelsey Mihachik

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn’t kill people.” – pg. xi

“Being funny has been my bulletproof vest.” – pg. xv

“The best thing that ever happened to me was being brought up hard. It’s kept me hungry, even though now I’ve got more than I ever thought I’d see in this lifetime. It doesn’t matter how much I accumulate – I’ll be starving for the rest of my life.” – pg. xv

“There are two things that will get you through life, and those things are simple and human and anyone can have them. They’re laughter and learning.” – pg. xx

“What I’ve loved and what I’ve lost made me who I am.” – pg. 34

“If you take your anger and bend it to your will, it becomes determination.” – pg. 45

“They say it takes something local to make someone think global.” – pg. 60

“Being vulnerable is nothing but a sign of real strength.” – pg. 79

“Talent is something else; it comes from inside you. […] You have to work to perfect it.” – pg. 125

“It’s a big world, and if you go through it feeling like you know nothing, you’ll be ready to learn something each and every day you’re alive.” – pg. 126

“God is never there when we want Him to be, but He’s always right on time.” – pg. 127

“I see no point in doing a lot of different things because there’s no way you’ll be good at all of them. Do one thing and do it the best you can.” – pg. 133

“Once a woman is fed up, there’s nothing you can do to regain her love. If she hates you, that’s fine, you’ve still got a chance. […] But when she’s fed up, it’s over, because indifference is something else.” – pg. 142

“You want to know the hardest part about finding love? When you get it, you want it to last so bad that you try to hold on to it even when you both know it’s over.” – pg. 143

“I always walked into auditions like the part was already mine.” – pg. 152

“I tried not to worry too much about how and why I’d gotten lost; through my tears I told myself to concentrate only on how quickly I was going to be found.” – pg. 161

“I learned what everyone needs to know: Some solitude is good for you, no matter who you are.” – pg. 178

“I’ll never be satisfied. Because I’m an artist and artists are always thinking of what they’re going to do next and how to make that better than what they just did.” – pg. 192

“You play with the best, you’ll be the best.” – pg. 192

“Be true to yourself and try your best to do no wrong.” – pg. 194

“All the youth out there, don’t cheat yourself, treat yourself.” – pg. 196

“Even when it’s not pretty or perfect. Even when it’s more real than you want it to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.” – pg. xi

“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.” – pg. 34

“Failure is a feeling long before it is an actual result.” – pg. 43

“What I’ve learned is this: All of them have had doubters. Some continue to have roaring, stadium-sized collections of critics and naysayers who will shout I told you so at every little misstep or mistake. The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.” – pg. 67

“This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path – the my-isn’t-that-impressive path – and keep you there for a long time. Maybe it stops you from swerving, from ever even considering a swerve, because what you risk losing in terms of other people’s high regard can feel too costly.” – pg. 91

“I was twenty-seven years old now, and these were days when all I wanted was to feel complete. I wanted to grab every last thing I loved and stake it ruthlessly to the ground.” – pg. 141

“Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.” – pg. 158

“Most of us lived in a state of constant calibration, tweaking one area of life in hopes of bringing more steadiness to another.” – pg. 201

“I’m not sure anyone around me would have said I wasn’t doing enough, but I was always aware of everything I would’ve followed through on and didn’t.” – pg. 210

“I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.” – pg. 270

“As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.” – pg. 313

“All we could do then was put our faith into the effort, trusting that with sun and rain and time, something half decent would push up through the dirt.” – pg. 322

“I felt sometimes like a swan on a lake, knowing that my job was in part to glide and appear serene, while underwater I never stopped pedaling my legs.” – pg. 329

“My friends made me whole, as they always have and always will. […] They helped me ride out the big, unsettling waves that sometimes hit without notice.” – pg. 362

“I’d been lucky to have parents, teachers, and mentors who’d fed me with a consistent, simple message: You matter.” – pg. 383

“You may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.” – pg. 395

“I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.” – pg. 416

“Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.” – pg. 419

“Then, if you are an only child […] there’s a lot of time alone with your own imaginings. There is always someone or something to dream about.” – pg. 17

“I suppose I just wasn’t very good at writing happy endings.” – pg. 67

“I wanted to know how it was possible to remain invisible enough to observe the very transactions between people that were the substance of so many of my songs.” – pg. 78

“I changed every ‘I’ to ‘we,’ so as to share the blame that was entirely my own, and then changed ‘I’ to ‘he’ to further cover my tracks. This was pop music, not confession.” – pg. 96

“I wondered what it really felt like to drink a case of someone.” – pg. 120

“People make a song and dance out of inspiration.” – pg. 159

“If there’s one thing that’s worse than being lost // It’s knowing you’re so close to being found.” – pg. 182

”I got the notion that someone should be writing these songs and that it was probably me.” – pg. 186

“It was a premonition, my fear that I would not be faithful or that my disbelief in happy endings would lead me to kill the love that I had longed for.” – pg. 187

“Songs can be many things: an education, a seduction, some solace in heartache, a valve for anger, a passport, your undoing, or even a lottery ticket.” – pg. 203

“Words had always been my friends. Now I had betrayed them.” – pg. 337

“We would either thrill or amaze or disappoint and disgrace and then get out of town.” – pg. 347

”Life takes much longer than the average pop song. […] It is much more painful and less easily forgiven.” – pg. 361

“Can a mere song change people’s minds? I doubt that it is so, but a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.” – pg. 393

“There is music that seems to belong to you the moment that you hear it, and music about which you must be patient, awaiting the hour when it may reveal itself to you.” – pg. 401

“The past is never that far away.” – pg. 415

”I’d only held it all together because I didn’t know how to let it fall apart.” – pg. 436

“Unhappy people are sometimes the last to see the trap that they have sprung.” – pg. 510

“People who are looking for profundity in every gesture often miss the sense of humor that keeps the working day alive.” – pg. 553

“It hadn’t been easy to find my way out the door, but when I was outside again I realized that everything had been in plain sight all along.” – pg. 581

“The danger of regarding any point in the past as the golden age is that you forget that there were […] just as many terrible records. We only recall the ones we love.” – pg. 647

“Dreaming provides a unique suite of benefits for all species fortunate enough to experience it.” – pg. 7

“The brain melds past and present knowledge, inspiring creativity.” – pg. 7

Sleep Pressure – When the chemical adenosine builds up in your brain. The longer you are awake, the more adenosine will accumulate. – pg. 26

“NREM sleep is one of the most epic displays of neural collaboration that we know of. Through an astonishing act of self-organization, many thousands of brain cells have all decided to unite and ‘sing,’ or fire, in time. Every time I watch this stunning act of neural synchrony occurring at night in my own research laboratory, I am humbled: sleep is truly an object of awe.” – pg. 49

REM sleep – Has also been called paradoxical sleep: a brain that appears awake, yet a body that is clearly asleep. It recalibrates and fine-tunes the emotional circuits of the human brain. It also fuels creativity: acting as an electrical fertilizer during critical phases of early life. REM sleep brainwaves are chaotic and desynchronized: showing a vivacious and healthy form of electrical activity. It is often impossible to distinguish REM sleep from wakefulness using just electrical brainwave activity. REM sleep is what stands between rationality and insanity. – pg. 51, 73-78, 82, 309

“Partially aquatic mammals, they split their time between land and sea. When on land, they have both NREM sleep and REM sleep […]. But when they enter the ocean, they stop having REM sleep almost entirely.” – pg. 60

Unihemispheric – The ability to sleep with half a brain at a time. Dolphins and whales exhibit this, as well as birds when alone. When in a flock, birds will line up in a row – and with the exception of the birds at each end of the line, the rest of the group will allow both halves of the brain to indulge in sleep. At some point, the two end-guards will stand up, rotate 180 degrees, and sit back down, allowing the other side of their respective brains to enter deep sleep. – pg. 63-64

“REM sleep is strangely immune to being split across sides of the brain.” – pg. 65

“In flight, migrating birds will grab remarkably brief periods of sleep lasting only seconds in duration.” – pg. 66

“Biologically, it is as if the day and night are far less light and dark, respectively, for autistic individuals.” – pg. 80

“Alcohol is one of the most powerful suppressors of REM sleep that we know of.” – pg. 81

“The proportion of REM sleep decreases in early childhood, while the proportion of NREW sleep actually increases.” – pg. 85

“Deep sleep may be a driving force of brain maturation, not the other way around.” – pg. 89

“Most of us do not have a good sense of our electrical sleep quality.” – pg. 95

Targeted Memory Reactivation – Selectively enhancing only the individual memories that you want to keep. Before going to bed, you review the learning experiences of the day, choosing only the memories from the menu list that you would like improved. – pg. 118

“Sleep [is] an active brain state, one in which we may review and even strengthen those things we have previously learned. […] In other words, your brain will continue to improve skill memories in the absence of any further practice.” – pg. 124-125

In one study, the accruing performance impairment (caused by only obtaining 4-6 hours of sleep) showed no signs of leveling out. Performance deterioration would continue to build up over weeks or months. – pg. 137

“The heady cocktail of sleep loss and alcohol was not additive [when it came to performance deterioration], but instead multiplicative.” – pg. 140

In another study, sleep-deprived participants showed a 60% amplification in emotional reactivity. This was seen when measuring activity of the Amygdala: the brain structure linked to fight-or-flight, also acting as a hot spot for triggering anger and rage. – pg. 146

“Lack of sleep is a causal trigger of a psychiatric episode of mania or depression.” – pg. 150

Decreased attractiveness due to being sleep-deprived is a physical expression of underlying biology that alters your chances of pair bonding and thus reproduction. – pg. 180

“Emotional regions of the brain are up to 30% more active in REM sleep compared to when we are awake.” – pg. 195

Latent Content – Repressed desires, or unconscious wishes that had not been fulfilled, according to Freud. – pg. 200

Manifest Content – Camouflaged wishes and desires that are unrecognizable to the dreamer. – pg. 200

“A meaningful, psychologically healthy life is an examined one.” – pg. 203

Dreams are not a wholesale replay of our waking lives. However, between 35-55% of emotional themes and concerns that study participants had while they were awake powerfully and unambiguously resurfaced in the dreams they had at night. – pg. 204

Maybe dreams, like heat from a lightbulb, serve no function. Maybe they are of no use: simply an unintended by-product of REM sleep. Walker says this is not true. REM sleep in necessary, but REM sleep alone is not sufficient. Dreams are NOT the heat of the lightbulb. – pg. 206-207

Dream Functionality – REM sleep dreaming dissolves emotion from experience. You have not forgotten the memory, but you have cast off the emotional charge. Stress-related brain chemistry drops during the dreaming state. In fact, dreaming of a very specific kind is required during REM: it has to be about the emotional themes and sentiments of waking trauma. Another distinct benefit? Intelligent information processing that inspires creativity and promotes problem solving. – pg. 209-211, 219

Only patients who were expressly dreaming about their painful experiences gained clinical resolution from their despair, while those who dreamt (but not about the painful experience) could not get past the event. – pg. 211

“As he slept, he dreamed, and his dreaming brain accomplished what his waking brain was incapable of.” – pg. 220

“Little wonder, then, that you have never been told to ‘stay awake on a problem.’ Instead, you are instructed to ‘sleep on it.’ Interestingly, this phrase, or something close to it, exists in most languages.” – pg. 229

NREM sleep solidifies memories, while REM sleep and dreaming takes that which we have learned in one experience setting and applies it to others stored in our memories. – pg. 231

Thomas Edison used to sleep in a chair holding ball bearings. The minute his muscles relaxed (as he slipped into REM sleep), he would drop the ball bearings onto a metal saucepan below which would wake him up. Edison would then write down all of the creative ideas that were flooding his dreaming mind. – pg. 232

“We must drop core body temperature (by 2-3 degrees Fahrenheit) to initiate and maintain sleep.” – pg. 245, 275

“I suspect that you cannot recall any truly significant action in your life that wasn’t governed by two very simple rules: staying away from something that would feel bad, or trying to accomplish something that would feel good.” – pg. 247

“Emotions in appropriate amounts make life worth living. They offer a healthy and vital existence, psychologically and biologically speaking. Take them away, and you face a sterile existence with no highs or lows to speak of. Emotionless, you will simply exist, rather than live.” – pg. 247

REM-Sleep Rebound – When the brain (of an addict) begins feasting on REM sleep, binging in a desperate effort to recover that which it has been long starved of. – pg. 272

“Sleep may have more of an influence on exercise than exercise has on sleep. […] Try not to exercise right before bed. Body temperature can remain high for an hour or two after physical exertion. Should this occur too close to bedtime, it can be difficult to drop your core temperature sufficiently to initiate sleep due to the exercise-driven increase in metabolic rate.” – pg. 294-295

Studies showed that naps as short as 26 minutes still offered a 34% improvement in task performance, and more than 50% increase in overall alertness. – pg. 305

“The return on sleep investment in terms of productivity, creativity, work enthusiasm, energy, efficiency – not to mention happiness, leading people to work at your institution, and stay – is undeniable.” – pg. 332

“We need better public campaigns educating the population about sleep.” – pg. 337

“I believe it is time for us to reclaim our right to a full night of sleep, without embarrassment or the damaging stigma of laziness. […] Then we may remember what it feels like to be truly awake during the day, infused with the very deepest plentitude of being.” – pg. 340

TIPS [that I found relevant]: (1) Don’t take naps after 3pm, and (2) A relaxing activity, such as reading or listening to music, should be a part of your bedtime ritual. – pg. 342

“I have difficulty taking what’s inside my head and saying it out loud.” – pg. xi

“It’s slow to change, but most of the people are fundamentally good people.” – pg. 16

“It would be like if you were the only person in your high school who owned a ferret. And then you got to college and found a whole group dedicated to owning ferrets. You’d think, Wow. I finally belong… on an FBI watch list.” – pg. 62

“It was the first time I was willing to put 100 percent of my effort into one single pursuit without fear of failing, because I loved doing it so much that I couldn’t focus on anything else.” – pg. 67

“No one in comedy (or any field, really) succeeds in a vacuum. And the faster you find friends who challenge you and sometimes make you jealous, the faster you’ll grow as a comedian (and regress as a human).” – pg. 69

“This has been a theme throughout my life: Pretend I belong somewhere until I eventually do.” – pg. 114

“You always want to challenge yourself and try to get to the level of the people you admire.” – pg. 118

“If you’re not nervous, it means you don’t care.” – pg. 156

“You don’t need to do anything in life – if it feels wrong or unnatural, it probably is.” – pg. 194

“Any promotion or opportunity you get in life comes with increased exposure and increased criticism.” – pg. 199

“I learned to do what I think is funny and either it works or it doesn’t.” – pg. 209

“I was worried that I would look back and regret losing something good in pursuit of something better.” – pg. 304

“Announce that you are flying to the moon and everyone assumes you mean to land on it.” – pg. 148

“He had everything a man […] was supposed to have, need, or want. Except for time, of course.” – pg. 281

“Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your interpretation writes the next chapter.” – pg. 7

“At every moment in life, there is a fork in the path you are on. And you can choose to go right or you can choose to go left. Every right you take leads you closer to your best possible destiny; every left leads you further away from it. […] One of my goals in life is to learn from my lefts so I can take more rights.” – pg. 19

“Your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.” – pg. 45

“It’s never too late to start caring.” – pg. 77

“When you’re trying to make it, you’re not judged necessarily by your talent but by your potential. And that potential is all about your willingness to listen, learn, and improve.” – pg. 123

“There is so much that is greater than us, whatever you believe. So while we get to choose the roads we take, we don’t get to know where they lead. Acceptance, then, is knowing that when your plan fails, or your road dead ends, it means a bigger plan is at work. And I’d rather be a part of a big plan than a small one.” – pg. 128

“When it comes to family and friends, either they believe in you right away, before you’ve ever done anything, or they’re your toughest critics and the last ones to offer praise.” – pg. 134

“Your job as a person with talent is to make yourself interesting after the audience hears your name.” – Keith Robinson, pg. 143

“For the first time […], I wasn’t trying. I was just being.” – pg. 153

“It is through our most extreme experiences that the biggest growth happens – if we survive them.” – pg. 153

“I guess that was the difference between me and many of the people I met over the course of my career: I always wanted to be bigger; I always wanted to do more; I always wanted to find the next step and the step after that.” – pg. 154

“One of the key factors for success – beyond work, talent, timing, relationships, and all the other qualities I’ve mentioned – is the glue that holds all of these together: commitment.” – pg. 160

“You have people who understand what you’re doing right away, and you got people who won’t get it until everyone else does. That’s just the way it is.” – Keith Robinson, pg. 169

“Once you know the rules of the game, you can play it.” – pg. 177

“If you do it enough, the right person will see you.” – pg. 178

“If success happens in part by chance, then the more you expose yourself to it, the luckier you will be.” – pg. 181

“I was successful not because I was the most talented person they’d seen and not even because I was the most persistent person they’d seen […]. But there was one other thing that gave me the winning edge, and will always give you the winning edge: being likable.” – pg. 183

“I’ve learned how to have confidence in my abilities and faith in my will to succeed.” – pg. 211

“If you wait for certainty, you will spend your whole life standing still. […] This of course leaves open the question of what direction you should move in. The answer: Pay attention, dummy. Life is pulling you there automatically. You don’t have to know You don’t have to understand. You just have to trust.” – pg. 212

“Every experience is a potential life lesson. Even if you don’t appreciate it at the time, each struggle in the present is preparing you for something else in the future.” – pg. 221

“Though people say to live in the moment, each moment leads to other moments. So treat each moment like a seed, and care for it so that something beautiful can grow from it.” – pg. 226

“Struggling when you’re going somewhere is exciting. Struggling when you’re not getting anywhere is challenging. But struggling when you’re going backward is hell.” – pg. 249

“Life is not about the result – we all have the same outcome in the end. Life is about the effort you put into it.” – pg. 250

“If you experience loss, it doesn’t mean you lost. It means you’ve been blessed with an opportunity to take a moment, realize how special someone or something has been to you, and go through new doors that were closed to you before.” – pg. 253

“Shortcuts may get you there quicker, but all the experience you gain on the long road allows you to stay there once you arrive.” – pg. 291

“Do your best, always. Because you never know who’s watching.” – pg. 307

“What’s important in a relationship is the bricks that every one of your words and actions lay down, because together they add up to the home that you’re going to live in for quite some time.” – pg. 315

“You don’t cry about what you don’t care about.” – pg. 323

“Look at what people make important.” – pg. 328

“It’s a scary thing to take the risks and make the sacrifices necessary to keep growing, but it’s better than living a life in which you don’t fulfill your potential.” – pg. 330

“What’s harder than achieving success is achieving consistent success. But what’s even harder […] is achieving consistently bigger successes.“

“But just because you work smart doesn’t give you the right to play stupid.” – pg. 350

“Sometimes it takes experiencing consequences to your actions for you to learn they’re wrong.” – pg. 355

“Everybody wants success in something, whether it’s work, love, play, finances, family, or an inner struggle. But success doesn’t come instantly. Life has a process of rejecting you to test you and prepare you to win.” – pg. 363

“How you handle rejection is very similar to how you’ll handle success. […] If you’re too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you’re too weak to handle success.” – pg. 363

“Growing up, the best thing I ever had was nothing.” – pg. 367

“Who works hard just so they can relax?” – pg. 371

“Success is not an excuse to stop; it’s a reason to move the goalposts farther out and accelerate.” – pg. 371

“Patience is understanding that your moment will come at the right time, and your job is to get ready for that moment. Because if it comes when you’re not prepared, then it vanishes just as quickly.” – pg. 373

“In this world, there is nothing but life lessons. Pay attention to them and the world will open itself up to you.” – pg. 374

“Finally, thanks to you for reading this entire book, even the acknowledgments. Seems like you don’t want this story to end. Fortunately, it’s just the beginning…” – pg. 378

“After my internship, I went back to college having identified two critical things that some people take a lifetime to figure out – who I was and what I wanted to be. Now I had to figure out how to deliver on the latter.” – pg. 60

“If you do it the truthful way, sometimes you will get what you want and other times you will not, but your reputation and your word will always be good.” – pg. 107

“So, what did we do while the world either laughed at us or ignored us? We had FUN!” – pg. 135

“There are a lot of cooks in the TV kitchen and everybody wants to add a spice.” – pg. 152

“And there you go: I had succeeded simply by not failing spectacularly. I’m sure there’s a deep metaphor somewhere in there for anyone who ever has to pitch anything. Maybe it’s this: There are no perfect pitches, just try not to hit the dirt.” – pg. 164

“It is better to fail spectacularly and learn from it than it is to never fail and learn nothing.” – pg. 176

“There was something weirdly relatable – or maybe cautionary – about two good friends calling it quits, possibly forever.” – pg. 200

“No amount of wealth, beauty, or fame can immunize you from misfortune, tragedy, and despair.” – pg. 214

“Keep your sense of wonder, always remember where you’re from, and appreciate moments as they happen.” – pg. 258

“[…] Even though everything was changing, we would always be the same. Love would rule.” – pg. 264

“I am exactly where I’ve always wanted to be.” – pg. 281

“I don’t believe any level of success as an adult completely changes how you saw yourself as a child.” – pg. 5

“Everything we experience, good and bad, has a meaning, even if we may not understand it right away. It’s all happening for us to learn.” – pg. 10

“Our lives play an important role in the lives of others, too. It’s as if our lives were cogs […]. When we look back, it’s as if, without knowing it, we were all co-creating our lives.” – pg. 11

“Throw away everything else, but please, please don’t ever live your life without love.” – pg. 15

“Clearly defining what you want gives you direction and the inner fire that can motivate you.” – pg. 23

“A wise friend of mine once told me something I’ve never forgotten. […] You have to give people the dignity of their own process. I think about those words a lot. At the same time, it was my choice whether or not to keep someone in my life. The decision didn’t mean I didn’t love that person either. It meant only that I needed to love myself first and surround myself with only those things that would nourish me and those people whom I could trust.” – pg. 68

“I don’t let go of those feelings because I’m an amazingly unselfish person […]. I let go because in the end it’s better for me.” – pg. 71

“The difficulties that came so close to killing me were, in the end, what gave me a whole new life.” – pg. 73

“I’ve always had very high standards for myself – and have expected that the people around me would share that commitment. But over the years I’ve learned that this is not necessarily the case.” – pg. 78

“When I have thoughts that don’t really serve me, I now see them as visitors […]. I just observe them – it feels very much like being seated in the back row of a theater – giving me the objectivity to say to myself, ‘Oh, you’re thinking about that again.'” – pg. 78

“If you’re always the one who’s doing the giving, well, it’s actually kind of selfish. […] The truth is that asking other people for help is not a sign of weakness, but actually gives them an opportunity to feel empowered.” – pg. 83

“I believe that all relationships – including our marriages or partnerships – come to us to support our growth, and give us the opportunity to learn to create happiness and fulfillment. All our relationships together form a kind of mosaic.” – pg. 94

“I’m always looking out for what is best not just for me […], but for everybody in our family. What is the best way to support and fulfill everybody’s needs as we move forward?” – pg. 221

“Imagine what would happen if each one of us knew ourselves as fully and deeply as possible. And that we led each day of our lives consciously and compassionately, without projecting our emotions onto others, or allowing our egos to distort reality. If everyone did whatever work was necessary to get to know themselves better, and took responsibility for being the best self he or she could be, I believe the world would be a different place, a better place.” – pg. 229

“There are an unfathomable number of ways to win in a chess game. But there are only two possible results. You win or you lose. Chess is like consciousness. It’s finite yet infinite. It’s logical yet illogical. It’s knowable yet unknowable.” – pg. 188

“The greatest thing I’m excited for is, after a life of hardship, struggle, pain, and suffering, is to now, as I finally venture into my thirties, enjoy the fruits of my labor. There will be ups and downs, happy times and hard. But […] this is me at my happiest, and I plan to continue to create from the purest part of my heart.” – pg. 275

“I have used words and creative freedom to better myself. Whoever may be reading these words, I hope you have the courage to do the same through any form of creative expression. It has been a long road, but I too, finally… have escaped the supermarket.” – pg. 275