Candace Bushnell Quotes

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”

Source: Summer and the City

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

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: Sex and the City

“Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
-Carrie Bradshaw”

Source: Sex and the City

Candace Bushnell Quotes

“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.”

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

“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.”

Source: One Fifth Avenue

“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.”

Source: One Fifth Avenue

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

Source: Sex and the City

“Funny always makes the bad things go away.”

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

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

Source: Sex and the City

“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”

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

“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.”

Source: Summer and the City

“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.”

Source: Sex and the City

“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.”

Source: The Carrie Diaries

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

Source: Summer and the City

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

Source: Summer and the City

“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.”

Source: One Fifth Avenue

“The heart wants what the heart wants”

Source: Summer and the City

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

Source: Summer and the City

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

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

Source: Summer and the City

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

Source: One Fifth Avenue

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

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

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: Sex and the City

“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.”

Source: Sex and the City

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

Source: Summer and the City

“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.”

Source: Summer and the City

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

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

Source: Summer and the City

“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.”

Source: Sex and the City

Candace Bushnell Lipstick Jungle

Source: Lipstick Jungle

“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.”

Source: Summer and the City

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

Source: The Carrie Diaries

“There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion”

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

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“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.”

Source: Sex and the City

“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.”

Source: One Fifth Avenue

“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.”

Source: Sex and the City

“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.”

Source: The Carrie Diaries

“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.”

Source: Summer and the City