Ally Carter Quotes

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“Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing.
And Iike it.”

“Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while”

“You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving.

- Macey”

“Oooh," Bex said throwing an arm around my shoulders. "I want one."
Cammie: "They're not puppies.”

“It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.”

“… there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.”

“I mean she's Cleopatra… shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different…"
"Variety is the spice of life"
"And from a thousand miles apart"
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder”

“Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?'

I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools”

“If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.”

“I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day I die. It's who I am… The thing is I don't think you realise is… it's who you are too.”

“Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.”

“Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.”

“In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)”

“Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family… not even you.”

“Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing”

“Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.”

“british bombshell" -grant”

“Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie”

“What are they after?” Kat asked.
“Hard to say,” Hale said; again, he eyed the room.
“Who is that?” Macey asked.
“The reason I wasn’t flirting with you,” Hale told her.”

“The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.”

“The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to
whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.”

“And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

“What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion.'

"With your first being…" Kat prompted.

"Gelato," Hale said, and turned back to the group.”

“So, your dad's hot."
"Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.”

“Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.”

“Waffles. Im craving waffles."
Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.”

“All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.”

“Hey, Cammie… tell Suzie she's a lucky cat."I seriously think not!”

“If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.”

“I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.”

“And so that means…"
"We have to rob the Henley," Simon said.
Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.”

“What about a Princess Bride?"
"Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?”

“We're going to be okay."

Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.”

“What are you looking at? Hale asked.
Why are you smiling? I worry when you smile.”

“The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.”

“Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.”

“I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr. Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.”

“I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)”

“The Princess and the Pea?" Gabrielle suggested.

"Not enough time," Kat said

"Where's Waldo?" Gabrielle went on.

"No." Hamish recoiled. "I am still not allowed back in Morocco.”

“If it works, it works,' Kat told him.
'And if it doesn't?' he asked.
She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.'
'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison.
And with that, it was decided.”

“You should always trust the instincts of children.”

“I’m sorry if I’m not flirting with you. I’m kind of spoken for.”

“But I kept it to myself--maybe because I didn't think it mattered, but probably because, in a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that only I had read.”

“Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?”

“Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.'

'I got it covered.'

'The DiMarcos might be in town.'

'Actually, they're in jail.'

'All seven of them?'

Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.”

“Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing”

“What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: a Gallagher Girl is”

“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.”

“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”