Ally Carter: Thing

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.”

“Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note
to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a
watch or necklace.)”

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

“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.”

“Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing”

“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.”

“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”

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

“It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take… These things you do… This is a dangerous life to live… alone.”

“Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.”

“Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided”