Quotes from Cecily von Ziegesar

Hot weather and thongs are a bad combination.

Destiny is for losers... It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very twisted!

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl ' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had.

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it. Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time.

You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..

forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

I don't eat chicken abortions!

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.