Candace Bushnell Quotes
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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.
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All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.
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There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion
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Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?
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You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.
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I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
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Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.
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There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
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Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.
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This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
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It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.
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Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
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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.
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Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges.
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The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
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My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.
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So much of being a woman is telling lies
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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.
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I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.
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. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.
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A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
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A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
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From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.
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Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.
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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.
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It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.
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