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. Carrie Fisher
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When you have a strong passion for something, it is so easy to let that passion consume your life. You can lose track of everything around you and your own self-worth. In the passage above, the narrator is describing a love gone wrong. She wants so to be tranquil, to be someone who takes 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.

Source: Postcards From The Edge

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