“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 ...”

Cecily von Ziegesar

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

Cecily von Ziegesar

“Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.”

Cecily von Ziegesar

“I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?”

Cecily von Ziegesar

“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.”

Cecily von Ziegesar