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Ally Carter is an American author of young adult fiction and adult-fiction novels.

✵ 1. January 1974

Works

Heist Society
Heist Society
Ally Carter
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
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Famous Ally Carter Quotes

“Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

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

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“If you ever wonder whether or not someone is too good for you, I'd advise going through their trash. Really. No one looks superior after that.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

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

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“That's for me to know, and for you to find out.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Ally Carter Quotes about girls

“It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."
-Uncle Charles”

Ally Carter

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.

I go to a school for spies.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

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“I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind youto keep in, and the kind you don'tto let out.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Ally Carter Quotes

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

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“… nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)”

Ally Carter

“Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?”
I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes.
“Crazy.” His voice was a whisper against my skin. “I went crazy.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“Hiding is for amateurs.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto the veranda.
As Hale closed the door behind him, Kat heard Angus say, "Ooh, Mom and Dad are going to fight now.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Did you hear that? I'm special.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“Don't get it right, get it written.”

Ally Carter

“I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”

Ally Carter

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“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.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“… maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“Pretend and it will be true.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“I needed to see you. And touch you. And just… know”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“Time, the greatest thief of all.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“How'd you get in here?"
She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“I always finish what i start”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.”

Ally Carter

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“What is a Gallagher Girl?
She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy… a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.”

Ally Carter

Source: United We Spy

“I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream
and chick flicks—not stun guns and bulletproof vests.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly.

"I'm not crazy," I whispered.

"I know."

Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me.

And I kind of loved him for it.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Ooh.. I want one" - Bex
They're not puppies." -Cammie”

Ally Carter

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

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“So you just… left?'

Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat.

Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, "I'd like to meet one of those, too.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

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

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“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)”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

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

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“Insane means fewer cameras!”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

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