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But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.
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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.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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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!
Cecily von Ziegesar -
It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.
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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.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
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.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
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.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!
Cecily von Ziegesar
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Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
Cecily von Ziegesar -
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.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships
Cecily von Ziegesar -
the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
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.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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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.
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Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
Cecily von Ziegesar -
You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you
Cecily von Ziegesar -
I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
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!
Cecily von Ziegesar
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And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
Cecily von Ziegesar -
I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
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.
Cecily von Ziegesar -
Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.
Cecily von Ziegesar