Cecily Von Ziegesar Quotes & Sayings

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 . — Cecily Von Ziegesar

It's fine." Brett shrugged, suppressing the urge to say something like, "The drugs are okay, but the sex is lousy." But she didn't want her suddenly nun-like sister to have a heart attack before Brett got a chance to pump her for information. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters. — 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

May your Valentine's Day be filled with adoration, pampering, and a pair of gorgeous, tiny-heeled Jimmy Choo sandals that are completely useless in this weather. Just remember: You are totally worth it. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

That "relationship" was a perfect example of Callie convincing herself of something that didn't really exist. She'd believed in unicorns until she was eleven, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply because she'd wanted to. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading 'Gossip Girl.' — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly
-Baby Carlyle — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Girls were like that, though- they had to know things. They had to plan. — 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

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

She couldn't believe how quickly life could change. How could she have known when she'd woken up that morning that today was the day she'd fall in love? — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Next year at this time, we're going to be hanging out with some new bunch of friends we met at college. People we don't even know exist yet. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Bundle! Chuck shouted agin, nonsensically, as he hurled himself on top of them. It was as if he were re-creating a scene from some dumb college frat movie he'd loved but no one else had ever seen. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

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. — 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

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

You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I don't eat chicken abortions! — Cecily Von Ziegesar

When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or ... what happened?' — 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

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

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! — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I just like meeting people."
"I don't." Tinsley wrinkled her nose. "It upsets my balance. I hate having to constantly reconfigure everyone, who fits where and all that. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

But I like labels," she admitted. "They make everything so much clearer." Her sister Bree always told her she liked things to be wrapped up too neatly, and that part of the point of life was its messiness, its refusal to be wrapped up. Brett always took the advice with a grain of salt - it was probably Bree's excuse for a messy room, or for breaking up with boys she'd dated without actually telling them. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it.
They chose each other.
Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now.
But as we know, in this city anything is possible — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

Oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I guess I was popular in high school. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Tinsley hated the thought of people greeting her with "Where's Julian?" It was like once you were a couple, you ceased to exist as an individual. It made her a little sick to her stomach. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

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! — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot. — 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? — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Why did you lead me on for weeks only to tell me you didn't like me. Is that something you learned from Serena? — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

She nodded, even though everyone knows that the first time, for anything, is rarely the last. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Don't ever let anyone tell you should be happy with what you have. There's always more, and there's no reason you shouldn't have it all. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

The jukebox changed to Elvis's "Don't Be Cruel," and Tinsley smiled her patented Carmichael smile, the one that seemed to say, I'm holding all the cards, but be honored that I've let you play. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

For nobody else, gave me a thrill - with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you. - As sung by Frank Sinatra — Cecily Von Ziegesar

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Was her whole life going to be like this now, avoiding certain songs or music that reminded her of her mistakes? Billie Holiday made her think of Eric Dalton; Iron & Wine was Jeremiah; and if things didn't work out with Kara, she'd never be able to listen to Bob Dylan again. By the time she reached her twenties, she'd be a huge, lumbering mass of musical baggage. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

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

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you — Cecily Von Ziegesar

She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I'm your tutor, sleazebag, not your Pussycat Doll. — 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

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

'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

Don't fucking make judgments about something you know nothing about. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone. Serana told Dan, who blushed. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

In the movie that was her life, he'd just asked her to marry him, and the answer was yes, oh, yes. Definitely-yes!
Cue straitjacket. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Fuck you, Tinsley shot back, but it was one of those friendly fuck-yous that you can only say to people you love. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

She didn't want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still - it would have been nice to see Easy try. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

Poor Nate was always on the verge of saying how he really felt, but he didn't want to make a scene or say something he might regret later. Instead, he kept quiet and let other people steer the boat, while he laid back and enjoyed the steady rocking of the waves. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

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

Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

RyanReynolds: You and Kara, huh? So that's why we've never hooked up!
BrettMesserschmidt: No. That would be because I hate you.
RyanReynolds: Oh. — Cecily Von Ziegesar