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...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
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Cecily von Ziegesar
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 27
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Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar
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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.
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And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
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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.
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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.
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Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
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oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.
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Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
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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.
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You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.
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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?
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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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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.
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the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
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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.
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Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.
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Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.
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...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.
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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.
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I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
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I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
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