"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. "
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Because I'm Worth It (Gossip Girl, Book 4))

"It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it.

Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Because I'm Worth It (Gossip Girl, Book 4))

"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 (Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, Book 1))