Quotes from Carrie Fisher

Not that writing on my notepads managed to actually empty my mind - though some would argue - but I was grateful to relieve the overflow.

What was it I wanted to tell you? Was it the new T-shirt-ready saying I came up with: "There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed"?

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.

I'm sorry it's not Mark—it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.

I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away and now I want it back

We lie buried together during the night and haunt each other by day.

People adapt to you. Don't worry, you can't alter what they think of you to any great degree, and by the same token what they think of you can't alter you.

If wishes were horses mine would be glue -

I can't forget that stupid, fucking hologram speech. THAT'S why I did dope.

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.

Now this is a delusion, but it's my delusion and I'm sticking with it. It's sort of like: I have problems but problems don't have me.

I've washed that man right into my hair He's sat in my chair and slept in my bed He's eaten all my porridge and climbed inside my head

I was sitting by myself the other night doing the usual things one does when spending time alone with yourselves. You know, making mountains out of molehills, hiking up to the top of the mountains, having a Hostess Twinkie and then throwing myself off the mountain. Stuff like that.

My heart's in the right place. I know, cuz I hid it there.

BOTH HANDS, ONE HEART, TWO MOODS, AND A HEAD

Tell the truth, be kind, all that corny stuff.

I was something women and men could agree on. They didn't like me in the same way, but they liked me with the same intensity, and were all fine with the other sex liking me, too. Isn't that weird? Think about it. And then stop and ponder something actually important. •

Stop playing the part of the glib martyr. You're just trying to make cyanide out of 7-Up.

I suspect that no matter what happens I will allow it to hurt me. Eat away at my insides, as it were—as it will be. As it always has been.

It was a year that, like all years, a lot of things happened in.

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

He's far from a fool, nowhere near. I'm quite near. I can feel the fool that's so far away from him breathing down my neck.

And my daughter laughs and laughs and laughs, and I say, "Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life." Now

And as much as I may have joked about Star Wars over the years, I liked that I was in those films. Particularly as the only girl in an all-boy fantasy.