"Blair was always imagining herself as the heroine of some black-and-white fifties movie, in the style of Audrey Hepburn, her idol. This time it had been her downfall" (Part 1, p. 5).

"She didn't go crazy over famous people, like most girls. She didn't need to: she was the constant star of the feature film playing in her head, the most famous person she knew" (Ibid, p. 11).

"To Dan it WAS a poem. Probably the most important poem he would ever write" (Part 2, p. 23).

"Blair was trying to maintain Serena's devil-may-care attitude. She could do this. She could have random fun with a random boy who wasn't anything like Nate. Besides, after tonight she'd never have to see Miles again if she didn't want to" (Ibid, p. 37).

"If boys were like clothes, the way Ms. Doherty said, then Nate was like her first pair of Diesel jeans that she'd bought...