Quotes from Cecily von Ziegesar

She closed Dan's door and walked down the hall to her room. He makes a good boyfriend, she repeated to herself. What the hell was that suppose to mean? She didn't just want a good boyfriend. She wanted that thing Gustav Klimt had captured so perfectly in The Kiss. That radiant, electric, hold-me-tight-so-I don't-fall-from-up-here-in-the-sky feeling of being in love. Well, don't we all, sweetie?

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!

oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.

Don't fucking make judgments about something you know nothing about.

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.

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 went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.

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