Quotes from Candy Darling

There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

You must always be yourself, no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

I was not meant for this world. I don't know. All I know is, I love, and I am not loved. I do not know happiness. I know despair, loneliness, and longing.

I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.

This is my barbed wire dress. It protects the property but doesn't hide the view.

Do what you can because there are many things that need doing.

Ah'd rather be silly old fool than a lonely old woman you see.

But there was always a word for what Candy was, then and now: human.

She longed to be seen, respected, and most of all, one day unconditionally loved (by one fully committed man) for the sum of all her many, many parts.

I think music can elevate the human spirit.

I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.