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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.

Cecily von Ziegesar

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Cecily von Ziegesar
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 27
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New York City
New York
Cecily Brooke 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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I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
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I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?
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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.
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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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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!
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'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.
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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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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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Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
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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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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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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.
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You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.
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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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I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone. Serana told Dan, who blushed.
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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!
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