Postcards From The Edge Quotes

“It struck me today that the people that have had an impact on me are the people who didn't make it. Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Lenny Bruce, Janis Joplin, John Belushi. It's not Making It to be Marilyn Monroe, but it is to me.

In our culture these people are heroes. There's something inside of that- a message that killing yourself like that isn't so bad. All the interesting people do it, the extraordinary ones. A weird, weird message. Most of the people I've admired in show business-comedians, writers, actors-are alcoholics or drug addicts or suicides. It's bizarre. And I get to be in that club now. It's the one thing I cling to in here: Wow, I'm hip now, like the dead people.

Romancing the stoned.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“Sometimes, though. I'll be driving, listening to loud music with the day spreading out all over, and I'll feel something so big and great- a feeling as loud as the music. It's as though my skin is the only thing that keeps me from going everywhere all at once. If all of this doesn't tell you exactly what I'm doing, it should tell you how I'm feeling when I'm doing whatever it is.”
― Carrie Fisher

“P.S. That night in the emergency room, do you recall if I threw up something I needed? Some small but trivial thing that belonged inside? I distinctly feel as though I'm missing something.

But then, I always have.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge