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

When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?

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

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.

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

'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.

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