“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.”

“It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.”

“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.”

“She nodded, even though everyone knows that the first time, for anything, is rarely the last.”

“She didn’t want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still—it would have been nice to see Easy try.”

“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.”

“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”