Ally Carter Quotes

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.”

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

“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.”

“But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.”

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

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

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

“Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them”

“… 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).”

“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?)”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Hiding is for amateurs.”

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

“Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.”

“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.”

“Did you hear that? I'm special.”

“Don't get it right, get it written.”

“you're the gallagher girl. figure it out."- zach”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Pretend and it will be true.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Time, the greatest thief of all.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I always finish what i start”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“So you just… left?'

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

“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.”

“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”

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

“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)”

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

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

“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.”

“Insane means fewer cameras!”

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