Quotes from Candace Bushnell

When you find the right person, it's so easy. People who have a lot of fights and drama - well, something is wrong.

then why sell? James had asked. have to, Redmond said. if I want to get married and have children and live in this city, I have to. since when do you want to get married and have kids? James asked. since now. Life gets boring when you're middle-aged. You can't keep doing the same thing. You look like an asshole. You ever notice that? Redmond had asked.

Your moustache," I continue. "It's kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It's part of me. I don't know who I'd be if I didn't want to be a writer.

Don't you ever get scared?" I ask. "Of what?" She says. "Of not being good enough." "You mean at writing?" L'il asks. I nod. "What if I'm the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if I'm fooling myself-" "Oh, Carrie." She smiles. "Don't you know that every writer feels that way? Fear is part of the job.

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.

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.

We'll then, Enjd said. What's the problem? This, Mindy said. She opened her hand and held up a tiny green plastic toy solider thrusting a bayonet. I don't understand, Enid said. This morning, when I opened my door to get the newspaper, I found a whole troop of them arranged on the mat. And you think Paul Rice did it, Enid said skeptically. I don't think he did it. I know he did it, Mindy said. He told me if I didn't approve his air conditioners, it was war...

The minute you get engaged, you become public property.

We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.

If you walk into a woman's apartment and nothing's out of place, you know she's not going to want to stay in bed all day and order in Chinese food and eat it in bed. She's going to make you get up and eat toast at the kitchen table.

Memory is just an alternate version of reality.

I said, 'Never. Because I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.' That shut her up for a minute. Then she asked where I went to college.

I feel sick. It's one thing to write for the school newspaper. But New York is on a whole different level. It's a mountain, with a few successful people like Bernard at the top, and a mad of dreamers and strivers like me at the bottom. And then there are people like Viktor, who aren't afraid to tell you that you've never going to reach that peak.

She could tell by Philip's attitude that his writing wasn't going well again. He was joyous when it was and miserable when it wasn't.

Why do magazine do this to women? Miranda complains now, glaring at Vogue. 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? What? I (Carrie) ask, picking up the grocery bad, Men win. That's how they keen us down she concludes

Damn him. Damn everything. Why is it all so goddamned hard?

When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

it's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. women thikn that survival depends on conformity. but for some women, conformity is death. it's a death to the soul. the soul, she said, is a precious thing. when you live a lie, you damage the soul.

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.

This, Sebastian is no mere purse. And, you shouldn't call a handbag a purse.....a bag, on the other hand, is meant to be seen.

He's probably one of those "love the one you're with" guys -- meaning he automatically goes after whatever woman happens to be around when he's feeling horny. Just another reason why I'll never get married, I say, getting out of the car. "Oh, Carrie." He sighs. "I feel sorry for you, then. I worry that you'll never find true love.

Men are the hunters and women are the gatherers. Shopping is a form of gathering.

Thinking you don't have unhealthy patterns is an unhealthy pattern in itself. And everyone has something unhealthy from their childhood. If you don't deal with it, it can ruin your life.

Babies! That's all it's about. Who ever knew the world would be all about babies?" Samantha shouts. "Every time I see a baby, I swear, I want to throw up," Miranda says. "I did throw up once." I nod eagerly. "I saw a filthy bib, and that was it." "Why don't these people just get cats and a litter box?" Samantha asks.