Blake Lively credited as playing...
Serena van der Woodsen
- Serena van der Woodsen: Rufus, I know I shouldn't have lied, but I was in Europe, and I had just graduated, and I got a little carried away. And what happens in summer, stays in summer, right?
- [no, obviously not]
- Serena van der Woodsen: Look, the only reason I didn't tell you is because I thought if I did you would think I'd *gone* off the rails again.
- Rufus Humphrey: Did you?
- Serena van der Woodsen: No.
- Dan Humphrey: You don't have to lie about your trip. I know what happened.
- Serena van der Woodsen: I don't know what you're talking about.
- Dan Humphrey: Serena, there was no ashram.
- Serena van der Woodsen: I went to an ashram... on a tour.
- [gives it up]
- Serena van der Woodsen: Dan, I appreciate your concern, but the little white lies that I tell my family are none of your business.
- Dan Humphrey: Rufus is my family. You didn't just lie to him. You lied to me. All those e-mails about the benefits of Bikram? Ten easy steps to colon-cleanse?
- Serena van der Woodsen: Turns out Goop is good for something.
- Dan Humphrey: What's really going on here?
- Serena van der Woodsen: Nothing. Nothing. It was just a few nights of harmless fun. That's... that's...
- Dan Humphrey: All right, all right.
- Serena van der Woodsen: ...it.
- Serena van der Woodsen: I don't know if anybody ever told you this, but the honeymoon is supposed to end. It isn't real. The real part is settling down with someone. The three-month milestone.
- Blair Waldorf: It is not a milestone. It's a gravestone. Settling down means death. Less sex, more silence. We found a way to avoid that which works for us.