“What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“Funny always makes the bad things go away.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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 territory”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“- 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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you’re not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you’re beautiful, just the way you are.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“I’ve had boyfriends before, and frankly, each one was a disappointment.
There was nothing horribly wrong with these boys. It was my fault. I’m kind of a snob when it comes to guys.
So far, the biggest problem with the boys I’ve dated is that they weren’t too smart. And eventually I ended up hating myself for being with them. It scared me, trying to pretend I was something I wasn’t. I could see how easily it could be done, and it made me realize that was what most of the other girls were doing as well—pretending. If you were a girl, you could start pretending in high school and go on pretending your whole life, until, I suppose, you imploded and had a nervous breakdown, which is something that’s happened to a few of the mothers around here. All of a sudden, one day something snaps and they don’t get out of bed for three years.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The professional on the other hand understands the impossibility of such a task. The creator of the character must know more about the character than anyone could ever possibly know about a real person. The author must possess the complete knowledge; what the person was wearing on Christmas morning when he or she was five, what presents he or she received, and who gave them and how they were given. A "character" therefore is a real person who exists in another plane, a parallel universe based on the author's perceptions of reality. When it comes to people don't write about who you know but what you know of human nature.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
“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.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from The Carrie Diaries
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“Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when it's a book that asks for it, instead of a person?”
― Wilkie Collins, quote from The Moonstone
“Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place of pain and suffering and grief. When you left it, cities were being attacked. Women and children were being blasted to pieces or burned alive by bombs dropped from planes flown by men with wives and children of their own. People were being dragged from their homes and shot in the street. Your world is tearing itself apart, and the most amusing thing of all is that it was little better before the war started. War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity. There were wars before it, and there will be wars after it, and in between people will fight one another and hurt one another and maim one another and betray one another, because that is what they have always done.
And even if you avoid warfare and violent death, little boy, what else do you think life has in store for you? You have already seen what it is capable of doing. It took your mother from you, drained her of health and beauty, and then cast her aside like the withered, rotten husk of a fruit. It will take others from you too, mark me. Those whom you care about--lovers, children--will fall by the wayside, and your love will not be enough to save them. Your health will fail you. You will become old and sick. Your limbs will ache, your eyesight will fade, and your skin will grow lined and aged. There will be pains deep within that no doctor will be able to cure. Diseases will find a warm, moist place inside you and there they will breed, spreading through your system, corrupting it cell by cell until you pray for the doctors to let you die, to put you out of your misery, but they will not. Instead you will linger on, with no one to hold your hand or soothe your brow, as Death comes and beckons you into his darkness. The life you left behind you is no life at all. Here, you can be king, and I will allow you to age with dignity and without pain, and when the time comes for you to die, I will send you gently to sleep and you will awaken in the paradise of your choosing, for each man dreams his own heaven.”
― John Connolly, quote from The Book of Lost Things
“We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from The Illustrated Man
“We’re doing the right thing, Thomas. See you on the other side.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Kill Order
“In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, quote from Rendezvous with Rama
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