Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
8 quotes
"ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously."
"Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir"
"She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to the birds and crickets and feeling the whole world breathe. Instead, she lived in her head like a madwoman locked in a tower, hearing the wind howling through her hair and waiting for someone to come and rescue her from feeling things so deeply that her bones burned."
"While she'd been drying her hair, she'd come up with a new message for her answering machine - "I'm out, deliberately avoiding your call" - and that simple burst of creativity had raised her spirits a bit."
"The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to."
"It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straight for it? Why get them to like my legs? It doesn't seem like that's me. I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me."
"The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt."
"I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere."