305 Quotes by Candace Bushnell

But every time I feel bad, I try to remind myself about what this little kid said to me once. She was loaded with personality-so ugly she was cute. And you knew she knew it too. “Carrie?” she asked. “What if i’m a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?” That question still kind of blows me away. I mean, isn’t it the truth? 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.

If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy.

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.

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.”

There’s a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

If I didn’t define who I was and what I wanted, then someone else would.

Always look like you know where you’re going, even when you don’t.

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.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it’s a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.