Candace Bushnell Quotes

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.