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141 " Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"? "
― Carrie Fisher
142 " I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that. "
― Carrie Fisher , The Princess Diarist
143 " We often assume that when the surface offers so little the depth must be unfathomable. "
144 " if you have a need to be comfortable all the time—well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic. "
― Carrie Fisher , Wishful Drinking
145 " I confide in everyone. I have no restricted private self, reserved specifically for certain trusted special people. I trust and mistrust anyone. I have traveled a full circle. But this time, on returning to zero again, I am able to act out the mistake more adeptly. I am on my way to becoming a very skilled loser. A specialist, a loser to end all losers. A flair for failing. I do it with style and finesse. "
146 " Do you or do you not like wearing earrings in your mouth that will one day smell like your ex-boyfriend's dick? "
― Carrie Fisher , The Best Awful
147 " As we all know, there is no underwear in space. "
148 " I want someone to love and treasure and overwhelm. "
149 " I may not take cristicism well, but that doesn't mean I'm not hearing it. I'll hear it later. Right now I'm storing it in my delayed response area, because it's hard for me. I wish I was someone who welcomed cristicism and immediately understood its valeu, but I'm not, and if I look unhappy about this, I am. "
― Carrie Fisher , Postcards from the Edge
150 " Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass. "
151 " Let's say something happens, and from a certain slant maybe it's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the funny slant, and now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm. "
152 " Not that writing on my notepads managed to actually empty my mind - though some would argue - but I was grateful to relieve the overflow. "
153 " I said, “Instant gratification takes too long.” The glib martyr. "
154 " I am closer to who I want to be when I am alone lately. With people, I hear my voice and I just wonder who or what I’m doing all this for. Spreading myself out in front of people. Devaluing my ostensible worth by being so readily available to almost any random pedestrian who wanders into the crosswalk of my focus. If someone is within an earshot I shoot off at the mouth. "
155 " I don’t want to make anyone else look stupid. That’s a privilege I reserve for myself. "
156 " If wishes were horses mine would be glue - "
157 " Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy. "
158 " It’s very dangerous to have someone like you, because one day he’ll find that you are not the person he thought you were. He’ll end up someday having only one thing in common with you and that’ll be a shared sense of contempt and disgust for you. Of course you knew all along how foolish and worthless you were, you just hoped that if you crouched down behind yourself enough he wouldn’t see it. But one day when your guard is off-duty you see him see. You both catch you at yourself. Catch you behaving. And then you’re lost. No. You were lost all along. "
159 " You love them until they can’t feel loved anymore, then you keep on loving them as if they were still there—as if there’s been a reprieve at the last moment and fate has reversed itself. It "
― Carrie Fisher , Shockaholic
160 " BOTH HANDS, ONE HEART, TWO MOODS, AND A HEAD "