Top 50 Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

2. “No matter the truth, people see what they want to see...”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

3. “You can’t make people love you but you can make them fear you.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

4. “Destiny is for losers. It’s just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

5. “You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

6. “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

7. “I don’t need anyone in my life who doesn’t wanna be there.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

8. “Oh, don’t be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

9. “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

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

— Cecily von Ziegesar

11. “I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we’re teenagers.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

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

— Cecily von Ziegesar

16. “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

17. “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

18. “I don’t eat chicken abortions!”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

19. “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

20. “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

21. “I usually wouldn’t be this close to you without a tetnus shot.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

22. “That’s the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

23. “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

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “But she’d wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

38. “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

39. “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

40. “I guess I was popular in high school.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

41. “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

42. “I tend to stare at people and memorize what they’re saying and how they say it.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

43. “Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

44. “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

45. “You said she’s a senior? Babe we’re ALL crazy.”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

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46. “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

47. “I’ll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!”

— Cecily von Ziegesar

48. “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

49. “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

50. “There are no rules here, only possibilities!”

— Cecily von Ziegesar