Explore Quotes by Candace Bushnell

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.

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?

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.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

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

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.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

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

There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh

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.

I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

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.

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.

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.

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

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