Candace Bushnell
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.Collection: Life
That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.Collection: Love
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Karma
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.Collection: Believe
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 BradshawCollection: Running
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.Collection: Remember You
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.Collection: Happy
As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.Collection: Fall
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Perfect Parents
Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.Collection: Relationship
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 territoryCollection: Dog
If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happyCollection: Thinking
You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.Collection: Letting Go
From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.Collection: Honey
Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.Collection: Married
I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Successful
After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.Collection: Men
You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.Collection: Men
If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.Collection: Believe
I know I have to do the right thing. 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? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.Collection: Block
Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.Collection: Men
Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.Collection: Confused
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337Collection: Animal
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.Collection: Play
It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.Collection: Emotional
You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.Collection: School
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.Collection: Lonely
All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Men
I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.Collection: Hurt
Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.Collection: Sick
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?Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Growing Up
There is a thin line between attraction and repulsionCollection: Lines
Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don'tCollection: Looks
There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laughCollection: Beautiful
I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.Collection: Two
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?Collection: Ability
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.Collection: Writing
When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on the ground. I thought, "This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer."Collection: Powerful
... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.Collection: Memories
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.Collection: Writing
. . . 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.Collection: Clothes
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.Collection: Falling In Love