"Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (I Like It Like That)

"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
— Erica Jong

"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)

"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)

"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)

"One girl is worth more use than 20 boys."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

""So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled.

"Because I'm Chuck Bass.""
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Would I Lie to You)

""I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.""
— Cecily von Ziegesar (The Complete Gossip Girl Series)

""I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Because I'm Worth It)

"Crap.
It's all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn't anybody realize this?"
— K-Ske Hasegawa (Ballad of a Shinigami, Vol. 1)

"I don't eat chicken abortions!"
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl)

""You idiot! You don't scare people on the edge of a building!"
- Blair"
— Gossip Girl

""You idiot! You don't scare people who are on the edge of a building!"
-Blair"
— Gossip Girl

"Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being."
— John Barth (Lost in the Funhouse)

"From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move."
— Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

"Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.
"
— Shanon Hale

"Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under her chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."
And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of a suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "You've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.""
— Jeffrey Eugenides

"I'm an ugly girl,
My face makes you hurl,
Sad I have it,
I should bag it.
Acne everywhere,
Unwanted facial hair.
I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.
"
— Weird Al Yankovic

"Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

"" Romance goes like this:
Boy gets girl.
Boy loses girl.
Boy gets girl again.
The end.
It can't be any other way."

-Anything but Typical"
— Nora Raleigh Baskin (Anything But Typical)

"But not you, O girl, nor yet his
mother,
stretched his eyebrows so fierce with
expectation.
Not for your mouth, you who hold him
now,
did his lips ripen into these fervent
contours.
Do you really think your quiet
footsteps
could have so convulsed him, you who
move like dawn wind?
True, you startled his heart; but older
terrors
rushed into him with that first jolt
to his emotions.
Call him . . . you'll never quite
retrieve him from those dark consorts.
Yes, he wants to, he escapes; relieved,
he makes a home
in your familiar heart, takes root
there and begins himself anew.
But did he ever begin himself?"
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies)

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita."
— Vladimir Nabokov

"And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to."
— Ali Smith (Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis)

""I am just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.""
— Anna Scott Julia Roberts

"A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman."
— Mary Lascelles (Jane Austen and Her Art)

"If life deals you prunes, make pastries! They are surprisingly delicious, but most won't even take the time to learn this."
— Miriam L. Jacobs

"It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments."
— Susan Vreeland

"There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood."
— Fritz Leiber

"A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope line between being a good girl and a slut. But there was always a moment when the lines blurred and a good girl had to decide whether to toe the line, cross the line, or stay safe behind the line that guarded her virtue.
"
— Thea Devine