Candace Bushnell Quotes

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.