Quotes from book

Summer and the City

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The heart wants what the heart wants”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better.”

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

“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.”

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