After a break-up, certain street, locations, even times of day are off-limits. The city becomes a deserted battlefield, loaded with emotional landmines. You have to be very careful where you step or you could be blown to pieces.
Carrie
Charlotte treated marriage like a sorority she was desperately hoping to pledge.
Carrie
He hits you?
Carrie
I began to realize that being beautiful is like having a rent-controlled apartment overlooking the park: completely unfair and usually bestowed upon those who deserve it least.
Carrie
Men in their forties are like the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle: tricky, complicated, and you’re never really sure you got the right answer.
Carrie
Miranda was a huge fan of the Yankees. I was a huge fan of being anywhere you could smoke and drink at two in the afternoon without judgment.
Carrie
Modelizers are obsessed not with women but with models, who in most cities are safely confined to billboards and magazines, but in Manhattan actually run wild on the streets, turning the city into a virtual model country safari where men can pet the creatures in their natural habitat.
Carrie
My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry about the future. Of course, he died penniless and single.
Carrie
No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.
Carrie
Samantha had the kind of deluded self confidence that caused men like Ross Perot to run for president.
Carrie
Somewhere down there, there’s a tiny sliver of green just taking its time. This is how everything works. You wait. You lay low. And then you come to life.
Carrie
That’s the thing about friends, they will always hold your hair back when you’re sick.
Carrie
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
Carrie
Welcome to the age of un-innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany’s and no one has affairs to remember.
Carrie
When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future monogrammed towels.
Carrie