Ally Carter Quotes

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Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

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Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren't trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.

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Go to bed, Cammie, my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. No, I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.

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Rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.

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She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

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You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.

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Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex

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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

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He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.

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If you die of pneumonia, I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident (Hale)

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I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world — I could have done anything, but I came back." "You ran away, Katarina." "And now I'm back." "You're still running.

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Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.

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After finals and winter break...after I'm back to full strength, we'll go get Preston. Whether Mom and Abby and Joe and Townsend like it or not, we'll go get him. And then...' I trailed off. 'And then we'll finish this. Next semester, this thing ends.

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His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out. "Posture's wrong," Kat said. "He's still... hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world. "I feel so objectified. So... cheap," Hale told them.

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Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)

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Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or the alarm." She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. "You're due for an upgrade." Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her. "She returns." He crossed his arms across his bare chest. "You know, I could be naked in here.

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As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.

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Gabrielle, Hale?" Kat smacked his shoulder. "It wasn't bad enough that you got me kicked out of school, but you had to use her to help you? Gabrielle!" "I can hear you," her cousin sang beside her. Hale looked at Gabrielle and gestured at Kat. "She's adorable when she's jealous." Kat kicked his shin.

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It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

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But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

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No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.

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Hale, stop it. Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. You are many things, but stupid isn't one of them. I'm too close. You don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off. It makes me a bad thief. It makes you a good person.

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Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.

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Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father's knee and her uncle's table.

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Step 4: Cough and gag. Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner.

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But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.

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If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

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Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

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You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?

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If you ever put a student at this school in danger again-' 'Oh, I thought you Gallagher Girls were immune to danger.' Despite the hundred girls the filled the foyer, no one moved or gasped or tried to defend our honor. We stood silently, waiting for our headmistress to say, 'Oh, we are quite used to being underestimated, Agent Townsend. In fact, we welcome it.

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