"She knows the reader and she loves the reader and the reader is all she cares about."

From a profile of Cynthia Eagan, the editor behind Gossip Girl, The A-List, The It Girl and The Clique:

“I think that what they want is the same as what I want,” she said, referring to the hordes of pubescent girls obsessed with the books she has overseen. “I was there at one age, and I’m still there. I don’t go to high school anymore but I am in an office, and it’s still a big building with lots of people who are bumping up against each other and hanging out with one another.”

“I don’t think people’s emotions change,” she added. “It’s just circumstance.”

God, that's depressing.