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61 " Memory is just an alternate version of reality. "
― Candace Bushnell , Four Blondes
62 " Because marriage is supposed to make you happy, not make you feel like a rat trapped in a very glamorous cage with twenty-thousand dollar silk draperies. "
63 " Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky. "
― Candace Bushnell , Lipstick Jungle
64 " When you live a lie, you damage the soul. "
65 " It’s not what I can afford, it’s what I want to afford. "
66 " Why is it that everyone who’s had a baby acts like they’re the only one who ever has? "
67 " You always think life is going to get easier when you get older, but it doesn’t. "
68 " 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 , Summer and the City (The Carrie Diaries, #2)
69 " 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. "
70 " 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? "
71 " 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. "
72 " 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. "
73 " 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. "
74 " My share. I hate owing anyone anything. Don’t you? "
75 " I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore. "
― Candace Bushnell
76 " Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. "
― Candace Bushnell , Sex and the City
77 " You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be. "
78 " Better alone than badly accompanied. "
79 " I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet "
80 " I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me. "