{"author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["best-friends","book","books","friends","friendship","fun","funny","gossip-girl","happy","knowledge","life","love","quote","quotes"],"id":2969,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"It's physics. Pure physics,I'm falling fast and faster still.So fall with me. Fall down with me.And stay.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["daniel-humphrey","fall-in-love","love","poems"],"id":15562,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"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.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["friends","myself","me "],"id":85342,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["babe","crazy","funny","girl","gossip","love","romance","senior","you"],"id":94013,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["god","writing","hate "],"id":116741,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["best-friends","book","books","friends","friendship","fun","funny","gossip-girl","happy","knowledge","life","love","quote","quotes","strength","woman"],"id":129133,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["boyfriend","girl","gossip-girl","love","relationships"],"id":131121,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["growing-up"],"id":169069,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"Open the fridge and putMy heart on a plate.I'm just as you leftme, and I taste even betterleftover.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["cecily-von-ziegesar","dan-humphrey","don-t-you-forget-about-me","gossip-girl","poem","poetry"],"id":190167,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"},{"text":"Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it.They chose each other.Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now.But as we know, in this city anything is possible.","author":"Cecily von Ziegesar","tags":["blair-and-serena","boys","friendship","love"],"id":245935,"author_id":"Cecily+von+Ziegesar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}