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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
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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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oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.
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I guess I was popular in high school.
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...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.
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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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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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And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
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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 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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...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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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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the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.
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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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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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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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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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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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