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.

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

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.

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

I don't eat chicken abortions!