Candace Bushnell Carrie Diaries Quotes

#1. I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love.

Candace Bushnell

#2. What?" She gasps. "Who did you do it with? You can't go out there and pick up some random stranger. Oh no, Carrie. You didn't. You didn't pick up some guy at a bar.

Candace Bushnell

#3. My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal ...

Candace Bushnell

#4. The wicked at heart probably know something.

Woody Allen

#5. Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

Maria Mitchell

#6. It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

Leslie Moonves

#7. Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.

Richard Armitage

#8. I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

Candace Bushnell

#9. Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your whole life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how it's so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that's it? This is what everyone's been raving about?

Candace Bushnell

#10. Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Stephen King

#11. Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.

Candace Bushnell

#12. Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it's an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you're ready for it.

Candace Bushnell

#13. Have I become the girl who waits by the phone, hoping it will ring, who asks a friend to dial her number to make sure the phone is working?

Candace Bushnell

#14. 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

#15. No matter what came next, Daniel rested safely in the grip of his Sovereign God.

Lynn Austin

#16. Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.

Candace Bushnell

#17. The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rights to existence of things not of his own contriving.

Richard M. Weaver

#18. Washington. In Monroe's Cabinet, Secretary of

Jon Meacham

#19. 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.

Candace Bushnell

#20. I wonder what God must have thought then / When He saw the work of Cain's hand / That the first baby born on the planet / Grew up to kill the third man.

Brian M. Boyce

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

Candace Bushnell

#22. When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

John Lasseter

#23. The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Life is just a dream on the way to death.

James O'Barr

#25. What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.

E. M. Forster

#26. My share. I hate owing anyone anything. Don't you?

Candace Bushnell

#27. If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

Robert Breault

#28. No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing.
Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth

Candace Bushnell

#29. Yow. Guys can be so insecure.

Candace Bushnell

#30. If a man doesn't ask you to marry him
or at least live with him
after two years, he never will. It means he's only interested in having a good time.

Candace Bushnell

#31. Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?

Candace Bushnell

#32. There are no office hours for champions.

Paul Dietzel

#33. I've never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what's the point? The guy's only going to take it off.

Candace Bushnell

#34. 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.

Candace Bushnell

#35. 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.

Candace Bushnell