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

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

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!

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

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.

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.