The Carrie Diaries Quotes

#1. There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

Brendan Dooling

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

Candace Bushnell

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

Nicos Anastasiades

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

Candace Bushnell

#10. 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

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

Candace Bushnell

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Mignon McLaughlin

#15. 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

#16. The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

Jann Wenner

#17. 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

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

Candace Bushnell

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

Candace Bushnell

#20. 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

#21. Yow. Guys can be so insecure.

Candace Bushnell

#22. 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

#23. Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"

Robert Breault

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

Candace Bushnell

#25. I don't ever want it to be a question whether I'm a Pro Bowl-caliber player, I believe I'm the best at what I do, and it's my responsibility to play like I'm capable of playing and help this defense as much as possible.

Derrick Thomas

#26. Thus, the sweetened breakfast was born, as was a core industry strategy that food processors would deploy forevermore...Just swap out the problem component for another that wasn't, at the moment, as high on the list of concerns.

Michael Moss

#27. 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