Gossip Girl (TV Series)

New Haven Can Wait (2008)

Blake Lively: Serena van der Woodsen

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• Blair Waldorf : I don't wanna not know you. I can't not know you.

  Serena van der Woodsen : Maybe we just had that fight because the reality of being separated next year is just scary to think about.

  Blair Waldorf : So...

  [Serena grabs Blair's hand] 

  Serena van der Woodsen : Wait for me. We'll ride home together.

  Blair Waldorf : Okay.

• Serena van der Woodsen : I can't do it anymore, Blair.

  Blair Waldorf : That's because you almost lost. I had you pinned with that chicken wing, don't deny it.

  Serena van der Woodsen : I don't mean this, I mean everything. The wars, the betrayal, the watching out for every possible land mine. It's exhausting.

  Blair Waldorf : I'm sick of it too. I'm sick of always looking like Darth Vader next to Sunshine Barbie. Life's too short, but you make it feel so long.

  Serena van der Woodsen : Well, if that's how we feel, then maybe, maybe we shouldn't be friends. We were probably gonna grow apart in college anyway, so might as well just start now, right?

  Blair Waldorf : Fine by me. You'll live your life, I'll live mine.

  Serena van der Woodsen : That sounds great.

  Blair Waldorf : I agree.

• Serena van der Woodsen : Brown is an Ivy league school.

  Blair Waldorf : Everyone knows that the only real Ivies are the holy trinity: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

  Serena van der Woodsen : Well, I know you may find this hard to believe, but not everyone wants to go to Yale, because not everyone wants to be Blair Waldorf.

  Blair Waldorf : Not everyone can be. Since we're not friends anymore, let me speak frankly. You're not that smart. You lack focus and discipline. Charm is all well and good, but in the real world, knowledge is power. You wouldn't make it past the first round of admissions at Yale, no matter how hard you tried. Have fun in Providence.

  [Blair walks off] 

• Blair Waldorf : What are you doing, Serena?

  Serena van der Woodsen : Oh, these lovely people were just showing me the course catalog.

  Blair Waldorf : No, here, Yale. Yale is mine.

  Serena van der Woodsen : Well, I admit I came to punish you for the things you said to me this morning.

  Blair Waldorf : Fine, consider me punished. You can go home now!

• Serena van der Woodsen : I'm so glad they did this alphabetically, cause now I get to see the look on your face when I use your answer even sooner.

  Blair Waldorf : I can tell you right now the look on my face will be a vindication.

• Serena van der Woodsen : I cannot believe you did this.

  Blair Waldorf : Why? It's not like you don't deserve it.

  Dean Berube : Ms. van der Woodsen, would you like to explain?

  Serena van der Woodsen : No, of course, Dean Berube. Pete Fairman was a man that I knew.

  Blair Waldorf : Man-slash-dealer.

  Dean Berube : Ms. Waldorf, let her speak.

  Serena van der Woodsen : He died almost two years ago when I was with him. What happened was a tragedy, and I am filled with regret over it, but I was not responsible.

  Blair Waldorf : Were you responsible for the sex-tape?

  Serena van der Woodsen : Blair!

  Blair Waldorf : It wasn't very sexy if you ask me.

  [Blair starts chuckling as she taunts Serena] 

  Serena van der Woodsen : Blair, that's enough, let's go! Dean Berube, do you mind if we, um, sort this out privately, please?

  Dean Berube : Take all the time you need.

• Blair Waldorf : [Serena takes Blair outside of the Dean's house]  Get your hands off of me! Are you trying to kill me too?

  Serena van der Woodsen : A guy died and you use it as part of a game? Who does that?

  Blair Waldorf : It isn't a game! And this isn't just another thing on a laundry list, this is Yale, my dream! You crossed the line!

  Serena van der Woodsen : And so did you when you brought up Pete! As far as my being here, you take that up with the school!

  [Serena starts to walk off and then, from behind, Blair throws her purse at Serena's head] 

  Serena van der Woodsen : You did not just do that.

  Blair Waldorf : Why do you think you were invited? You know on paper you're not Yale material! Could it be your face on page six of every tabloid magazine in the country? Your name everywhere? Face it, Serena, Yale needs to up their Q-rating just like all the other schools and they're gonna use girls like you to do it!

  Serena van der Woodsen : Shut up!

  [Serena pushes Blair] 

  Blair Waldorf : You shut up!

  [Blair pushes Serena and they both get in a catfight] 

• Blair Waldorf : What are you doing here? Making sure the Dean knows it's all my fault?

  Serena van der Woodsen : No - I came to tell him that Yale is your dream and you deserve to go here more than I do. What are you doing here?

  Blair Waldorf : Doing the same thing for you.

• Serena van der Woodsen : I won't accept, I can't like this.

  [talking about her Yale acceptance] 

  Blair Waldorf : What? No you have to. It doesn't matter how you got it or why, it's an opportunity.

  Serena van der Woodsen : No your my best friend. What's mine is yours.

  Blair Waldorf : You can't share this.

  Serena van der Woodsen : We'll find a way, together.

  [hugs Blair] 

• Serena van der Woodsen : You look calm for someone who no longer has the perfect answer to the Dean's question.

  Blair Waldorf : You don't think I came all the way here without a backup answer, do you? Oh, and it's a real crowd pleaser, it's gonna kill.

• Blair Waldorf : Trying to come up with an answer for the Dean's parlor game?

  Serena van der Woodsen : You manipulated your way in here?

  Blair Waldorf : I get what I want, Serena. Just like I'm gonna win tonight. What's your answer? Oh, no, let me guess - Lauren Conrad?

  Serena van der Woodsen : Try George Sand.

  Blair Waldorf : Wait, that's...

  Serena van der Woodsen : Your answer? Not anymore. If your gonna cheat your way in, then why should I play fair? Oh, and I heard that the Dean asks his questions in alphabetical order, so since V comes before W, looks like the answer's all mine.