Meet Carrie Before Sex and the City

by Candace Bushnell

The story of Carrie Bradshaw as a small town girl who ends up as the confident woman portrayed in Sex in the City.

Quotes I liked:

"I try no to give him much thought, but alphabetically, my last name comes right before Tommy's, so I'm stuck with the locker next to his, stuck sitting next to him in class and at assembly, and therefore basically stuck seeing him- every day." (They may end up married. Chilson and Fenton did, and they started for basically the same reason.)

"There could be an actual person inside Cynthia, but if there is, I've never seen it."

"Changing. It's hard to pull off in this little town." (aint that the truth!)

"A little kid, so ugly she was cute, asked me once: What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it? That question still kind of blows me away. I mean, isn't it the truth? Whoever we are here, we might be princesses, somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or Presidents. Or whateer the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't."

"Rule number 1: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who is in crisis? Ruler number 2: Humiliated best friend always takes precedence over cute guys."

"Magwitch, you can't let what other people say affect you so much." I know this isn't helpful, but my father says it all the time and it's the only thing I can think of at the moment."