Cecily Von Ziegesar Quotes

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

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

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'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 don't eat chicken abortions! ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

when you assume you make an ass out of u and me ! ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

I'm your tutor, sleazebag, not your Pussycat Doll. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter. ~ 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

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it. ~ 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

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

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 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

She nodded, even though everyone knows that the first time, for anything, is rarely the last. ~ 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 usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you ~ 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

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

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

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

Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings. ~ 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

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

Don't fucking make judgments about something you know nothing about. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting. ~ 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

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

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

I don't need anyone in my life who doesn't wanna be there. ~ 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

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

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

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore. ~ 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

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books! ~ 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

'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

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

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. ~ 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

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.. ~ 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

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

He sneered. "I don't fancy your type."
"Why, too sober? Too much self-esteem? ~ Cecily White

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me. ~ Lars Von Trier

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Despite the popularity of this view, the DeValoises felt it was only a partial truth. To test their assumption they used Fourier's equations to convert plaid and checkerboard patterns into simple wave forms. Then they tested to see how the brain cells in the visual cortex responded to these new wave-form images. What they found was that the brain cells responded not to the original patterns, but to the Fourier translations of the patterns. Only one conclusion could be drawn. The brain was using Fourier mathematics - the same mathematics holography employed - to convert visual images into the Fourier language of wave forms. 12 The DeValoises' discovery was subsequently confirmed by numerous other laboratories around the world, and although it did not provide absolute proof the brain was a hologram, it supplied enough evidence to convince Pribram his theory was correct. Spurred on by the idea that the visual cortex was responding not to patterns but to the frequencies of various wave forms, he began to reassess the role frequency played in the other senses. It didn't take long for him to realize that the importance of this role had perhaps been overlooked by twentieth-century scientists. Over a century before the DeValoises' discovery, the German physiologist and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz had shown that the ear was a frequency analyzer. More recent research revealed that our sense of smell seems to be based on what are called osmic frequencies. Bekesy's work had clearly d ~ Michael Talbot

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

You could try being pleasant and malleable," she suggested. "I'd probably find it a complete turn-off. I didn't realize I had this penchant for militant men. It's giving me whole new insights into my personality."
"Militant?"
"I thought it sounded more polite than 'bossy.' No?"
"I'm not bossy."
He actually sounded like he believed that.
"Okay, Captain Von Trapp. Keep telling yourself that."
She'd broken the stern director facade again. He was grinning. ~ Lucy Parker

Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door' of my own room. From the standpoint of living faith, I cannot fundamentally believe in anyone's damnation but my own; as far as my neighbor is concerned, the light of resurrection can never be so obscured that I would be allowed or obliged to stop hoping for him. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. ~ Karl Von Frisch

There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible. ~ Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The insignificant labor; the great create. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

It seemed, however, that I had. I didn't want any more, so I got them. And now I am glad, for if, as I had sometimes wished at that time, I could have finished with a consciousness become unbearable, if, in other words, I had then died, I would never have known a great many very beautiful and delightful things. Evidently, then, it is wise not too soon to lose patience with life, but to wait and see what it may have round its next corner. I ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

That order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world. He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely destroy a football game. ~ Jon Gruden

I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is - Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

His eyes ran over her hungrily. "I couldn't get it out of my mind," he said, almost to himself, "the way it felt, back at my mother's house. I was never so hungry for anyone, but it wasn't completely physical, even then." He frowned. "I want you, Cecily, and I hate myself for it."
"What else is new?" She gestured toward the door. "Go home. And I hope you don't sleep a wink."
"I probably won't," he said ruefully. He moved toward the door, hesitating.
"Good night," she said firmly, not moving.
He stood with his back to her, his spine very straight. "I can trace my ancestors back before the Mexican War in the early 1800s, pure Lakota blood, undiluted even by white settlement. There are so few of us left…"
She could have wept for what she knew, and he didn't know. "You don't have to explain it to me," she said solemnly. "I know how you feel."
"You don't," he bit off. He straightened again. "I'd die to have you, just once." He turned, and the fire was in his eyes as they met hers, glittering across the room. "It's like that for you, too."
"It's a corruption of the senses. You don't love me," she said quietly. "Without love, it's just sex."
He breathed deliberately, slowly. He didn't want to ask. He couldn't help it. "Something you know?"
"Yes. Something I know," she said, lying with a straight face and a smile that she hoped was worldly. She was not going to settle for crumbs from him, stolen hours in his bed. Men were devious when desi ~ Diana Palmer

The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues. ~ Marie-Louise Von Franz

PROFESSOR EMERITUS WOTAN Ulm, of the University of Oxford East 5, author of the bestselling if controversial memoir Peer Reviewers and Other Idiots: A Life In Academia, had consented to give a recorded lecture on von Neumann replicators to be carried as briefing material on the US Navy twain USS Brian Cowley. ~ Terry Pratchett

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan. ~ Baldur Von Schirach

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In consequence of this information, Wilhelm, with the most sedulous attention, set about preparing the piece, which was to usher him into the great world. "Hitherto," said he, "thou hast labored in silence for thyself, applauded only by a small circle of friends. Thou hast for a time despaired of thy abilities, and are yet full of anxious doubts whether even thy present path is the right one, and whether thy talent for the stage at all corresponds with thy inclination for it. In the hearing of such practised judges, in the closet where no illusion can take place, the attempt is far more hazardous than elsewhere; and yet I would not willingly recoil from the experiment: I could wish to add this pleasure to my former enjoyments, and, if it might be, to give extension and stability to my hopes from the future. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal. ~ Max Von Sydow

You have this thing called a life. It's only you that gets to live it and you only get to do it one time. ~ Cecily Anne Paterson

I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting. ~ Walther Von Brauchitsch