- Chuck Bass: [after smelling the cherry pie Blair has, thanks to his pre-emptive strike, in vain offered to Ms. Chamberlain] Mmm... I almost forgot how much I used to enjoy your pie.
- Gossip Girl: Better batten down the hatches, B. Looks like your island in the storm is about to be hit by a Bass 5 hurricane.
- Serena van der Woodsen: I... thought I could start over... but it turns out... college is just high school with more expensive books. There's no... starting over. No matter where I go, whatever I do, my past seems to follow me.
- [first lines]
- Gossip Girl: [voice-over, as Serena, in devastating yellow top and short black skirt, is about to hail taxi] Morning on the Upper East Side, where even our own blond birdie has been spotted flying the coop early to make it to her morning classes. Leave it to Serena van der Woodsen to make geek chic. Who'd have thought Ivy would look so good on her?
- Juliet Sharp: [Nate will get himself tested] Thank you. And I promise you, once you see the outfit I bought for tomorrow night, it will be well worth it.
- [bites her lower lip]
- Serena van der Woodsen: You know, Vanessa, you always wanna believe the worst of people. Why change now?
- Vanessa Abrams: *Exactly!*