Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.

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

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

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

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

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

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

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

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.

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

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

I don't eat chicken abortions!

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

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

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

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.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

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!

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

Sometimes a b.f.f makes you go W.T.F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives .

Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

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.

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