Candace Bushnell Quotes

“All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.”

“I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you
don't quit a career.”

“Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?”

“Why do magazines do this to women? It's
all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.”

“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”

“I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.”

“A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you’re not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you’re beautiful, just the way you are.”

“Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie”

“If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy”

“I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk… I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.”

“I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life. Forcing people to give it to you, or making them want to give it to you.”

“I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.

+ Then you shouldn't be a writer.”

“In life, there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.”

“You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.”

“I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.”

“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”

“Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.”

“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.”

“Better alone than badly accompanied.”

“I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet”

“I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.”

“From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.”

“What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?”

“That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”

“Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”

“Retribution is tricky…. The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.”

“Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.”

“If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.”

“Funny always makes the bad things go away.”

“Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.”

“I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.”

“Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory”

“sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen”

“It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.”

“Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.”

“Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.”

“I'm not ashamed of anything I've done.
Shame is a useless emotion.”

“It's always the people who don't want things who get them.”

“maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.”

“The heart wants what the heart wants”

“You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.”

“It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.”

“All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.”

“Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.”

“When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.”

“There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh”

“Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.”

“I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.”

“Should, is the worst word
in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're
not, they're disappointed.”

“I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.”

“It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.”

“The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.”

“I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.”

“As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.”

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

“You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy
because secretly, you don’t want it to last.”

“Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.”

“It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.”

“There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion”

“After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.”

“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”

“When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.”

“At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.”

“She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.”

“Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.”

“Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.”