allow someone to hurt you, because it will teach you the kind of person you don't want to be, and how great joy really is ...

"Stand up and finish what you started."
-Bob Harper

"As for [him], you'd think he'd be on top of the world ... But no. Have you seen him lately? Red-rimmed eyes, dirty tissues streaming from his pockets, lackluster disposition. Our golden boy appears to be in a terrible funk. Or maybe he caught a sexually transmitted disease from one of those ... tramps he's always rumored to be hooking up with. See? It doesn't pay to be too greedy."
-from Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Book 8) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"It was like he was finally tasting the meal he'd been looking at under the glass all those years. He wanted to savor it, but everyone else was eating so quickly, there wasn't time. And there was also this nagging feeling that he'd ordered the wrong thing."
-from Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Book 8) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"Bitchy and stubborn and selfish and neurotic, Blair was the epitomer of high maintenance, but no matter how many times he'd f***ed up, she'd always taken him back. It usually started with a sidelong glance or an irate phone call, and then he'd show up at her door and they'd kiss and make up. But Blair wasn't sending him any if-you're-really-nice-to-me-I'll-consider-it vibes."
-from Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Book 8) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"It was precisely one of those awkward, mundane little moments that made her feel like most of life was just waiting for something to happen."
-from Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Book 8) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"'She gets all grumpy when you don't come on to her, and then she complains when you don't,' Nate complained, shaking his head. 'I never understood that.' 'But as long as you let her know she's irresistible, she can't make a fuss,' Lord Marcus pointed out. 'That's what's crucial.' Nate turned his head to look at the older boy through a haze ... He'd known Blair practically since he was born. How come this guy, who'd only just met her, seemed to have her all figured out? Was it possible that he and Blair were totally incompatible? Maybe they were never actually meant to be."
-from Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Book 8) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"She'd done everything she could do. Her fate was in someone else's hands."
-from Gossip Girl: Nothing Can Keep Us Together (Book 8) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"I do not love you except because I love you."
-Pablo Neruda

"Believe in absolutely everything. Question even more and never give up. Forgive because it's empowering, and love because it's humbling. Allow someone to hurt you, because it will teach you the kind of person you don't want to be, and how great joy really is. Admire life, because in its chaos it is always teaching a great lesson."
-Unknown

All the following quotes are from Gilmore Girls, Season 1, Episode 4 (The Deer Hunters) ...

Lorelai: "Shopping for school supplies, partay."
Rory: "Nobody demanded that you come."
Lorelai: "Are you kidding? How often do you get to do things like this? I was thinking, while we're going crazy, we should get some toilet paper and a plunger next."
Rory: "I'll just do this later."
Lorelai: "No, I'm teasing. Come on, get that list of yours."
Rory: "Okay ... I need legal pads."
Lorelai: "Got it."
Rory: "Tons of pens ..."
Lorelai: "Right."
Rory: "Some number two pencils, three highlighters, an eraser, a staple remover and a folder."
Lorelai: "You need three highlighters?"
Rory: "Yes."
Lorelai: "Three?"
Rory: "Yes."
Lorelai: "That's a very random number."
Rory: "Three is not a random number."
Lorelai: "No, but I mean, how did you get to the number three."
Rory: "One dries up, one gets lost, I have one left."
Lorelai: "You have really thought this out."
Rory: "Yes, I have."
Lorelai: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
Rory: "Can we get back to this list, please?"
Lorelai: "All right. Ooh, hey, legal pads."
Rory: "No. Those are purple."
Lorelai: "Yes, purple is festive."
Rory: "I can't have purple."
Lorelai: "Yes you can, they're on sale."
Rory: "I'm going to serious school now. I need serious paper."
Lorelai: "Paper is paper."
Rory: "Not at Chilton."
Lorelai: "Fine, here is your serious paper."
Rory: "Thank you."
Lorelai: "Ooh, and here are your somber highlighters, your maudlin pencils, your manic depressive pens. Now, these erasers are on lithium, so they may seem cheerful, but we actually caught them trying to shove themselves in the pencil sharpener earlier."
Rory: "I'm going home now."
Lorelai: "No, wait. We're going to stage an intervention with the neon Post-its to make them give up their wacky, crazy ways."
Rory: "I'm never going shopping with you again."

Paris: "Not everyone can be smart. As my mother always says, somebody has to answer the phones."

Lorelai: "What is going on here? We are young fiery women! Studying? Shopping lists? Where's 'to hell with it all?' Where's throwing caution to the wind? Where's--oh, shoot! The linen delivery."
Rory: "You go girl."

Mama Kim (to Rory eating a Snickers bar): "That is chocolate-covered death."
Rory: "With a creamy caramel surprise."

Lorelai (just drank a sip of coffee): "Jesus, Mary, Joseph and a camel. (Other parents look at her.) This is really bad coffee!"

Lorelai (in a parent meeting): "I just thought I'd like to see the excitement."
Random dad: "It's a test."
Lorelai: "Yeah, I know."
Random dad: "What's exciting about a test?"
Lorelai: "Do you play golf?"
Random dad: "Yes I do."
Lorelai: "You explain yours, I'll explain mine."

Luke: "You look like you need pie."
Rory: "I do?"
Luke: "Violent pencil tossing usually signals the need for pie."
Rory: "What if I'd thrown a pen?"
Luke: "I would've brought you a trout."
Rory: "What?"
Luke: "I don't make the rules, I just carry them out."
Lorelai (entering the diner): "Hey, backwards baseball cap - new look for you. She's eating pie? Did she even have dinner?"
Luke: "You raise her. I just serve."

Brian (a server at the in): "May I be fired now?"
Lorelai: "Absolutely."

Lorelai (about Headmaster Charleston): "I didn't yell at him."
Rory: "You called him 'il duce.'"
Lorelai: "Which means 'Kind Sir' in Cantonese."

The next quotes are all from Gilmore Girls, Episode 1.5 (Cinnamon's Wake) ...

Emily: "Oh, I'm afraid I have some bad news. Claudia died."
Lorelai: "Who?"
Emily: "Claudia. Your cousin Claudia. (Lorelai is still staring.) Claudia!"
Lorelai: "I'm hearing the name, Mom. I have no idea who that is."
Emily: "Claudia's your cousin, for all intents and purposes."
Lorelai: "Oh, now we're getting to it."
Emily: "She was your father's grandmother's sister's girl. So to you, that would make her--"
Lorelai: "Nothing?"
Emily: "Regardless, the funeral's on Thursday. I thought we'd all go together."
Lorelai: "Ooh, whoa. Two problems. First, impossible to get away from the inn Thursday. Two, I've never met this woman!"
Emily: "You most certainly have."
Lorelai: "When?"
Emily: "Several times."
Lorelai: "I'll take one."
Emily: "We went to her hosue in Groton to see the first moon landing. She'd just gotten a new Philco."
Lorelai: "I have no memory of this whatsoever."
Emily: "Rory, correct me if I'm wrong, but men have walked on the moon, regardless of whether or not your mother rememebrs it or not?"
Rory: "That's the rumor."
Lorelai: "I know men have walked on the moon. I just don't know Claudia."
Emily: "So you're not going?"
Lorelai: "Not this time."
Emily: "I don't think Claudia's planning to die a second time."

Emily: "Oh wait -- Rudolph Gottfried!"
Lorelai: "Another cousin?"
Emily: "No, a Nazi that we knew. I'd forgotten. We stayed with him once in Munich. Nice old man. Interesting stories."
Lorelai: "Mom, you socialized with a known Nazi? That's despicable! That's heinous!"
Emily: "No, dear. That's a joke."

Michel: "You're giving me that look, aren't you? Your patented, 'Do it, or something unspeakable shall befall you' look."

Max: "You like coffee?"
Lorelai: "Only with my oxygen."

Lane (talking about Babette's recently deceased cat, Cinnamon): "They said that they rolled her body into a lamp. (Rory nods.) Did you laugh? (Rory shakes her head.) Did you want to? (Rory nods her head.)"

Lorelai: "I kept information from you."
Rory: "Information I should have had."
Lorelai: "Information that would've come out eventually, like the Iran-Contra scandal."
Rory: "So you're Oliver North?"
Lorelai: "No, I'm Fawn Hall."
Rory: "Mom."
Lorelai: "Well, she's much prettier."

Lorelai (about Emily): "She's working for a sedative manufacturer, keeping that demand sky high."