Candace Bushnell Quotes

'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away

Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of planets, we may have an idea of the numberless globes that serve for the habitaton of living creatures.

What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

Today is a king in disguise.

The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.

After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

If I had my life to live over, I would never dream

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.