Quotes from Candace Bushnell

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

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

Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmates

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.

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?

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.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.

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.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal. -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

I didn't want it to be this way. Yes, you did, she said, because it is. I just want to be with someone normal, he said. I just want to have a normal life. Excuse me, she said. You're a little crazy, he said. You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.

Remember, girl: It's the best time in the history of the world to be you. You can do anything! You can do everything! You can be whatever you want to be! Just as long as you follow the rules.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?