destiny is for losers ...

"God, that's terrible. It's like drinking a My Little Pony."
-from Gilmore Girls (Episode 6.7)

"Destiny is for losers ... It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"If only she knew how to make the things she wanted to happen, happen, without f***ing them up completely."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"[He] was like the dumbest Labrador retriever. If you dangled a stick in front of him, he just had to have it, but if you threw a tennis ball, he forgot all about the stick and went after the ball."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"For once it might be nice if he forgot to think about things so much and just went with the damned flow."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"That was the nice thing about going out with your best friend. You didn't always have to talk."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"See what happens when you stand idly by? The ho's get your guy! Ha! I'm a poet and I didn't even know it."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"Despite [her] shortcomings, though, he always felt like they really knew each other -- after all, they'd grown up together. And the whole time they'd been going out, he'd felt like they were moving toward something. There was a destination, like the red pin he stuck in his nautical charts when he said his boat into harbor somewhere ... Their lives were moving forward at the same pace, separately, but together."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"Blair loved how Nate already knew exactly what she wanted without her having to say anything, but she pretended not to notice."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"She could see that Nate was trying to talk to her like nothing had happened, like he hadn't dumped her for a preschooler and spent the last month avoiding her entirely. It was kind of irritating, but it was also kind of wonderful, like the part in her screenplay where Audrey realized that Colin had been just as terrible to her as she'd been to him and she decided to love him even more for it."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"Nate had never been in love with her, because he'd never stopped being in love with Blair. And because he lied and pretended he loved her, he wasn't even a good boyfriend."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"It wasn't really going to end, she decided now. Not with any sort of finality. The best stories never did. Maybe she'd just cut to the next morning. Audrey would have a funny little exchange with the deli guy she bought her coffee from. Then she would laugh to herself, take a sip of her coffee and walk out the door and into the street, leaving everybody guessing."
-from Gossip Girl: All I Want is Everything (Book 3) by Cecily vonZiegesar