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

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

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You is a young adult fiction novel written by Ally Carter and is the first book in the Gallagher Girls series. In October 2007, a sequel was released titled Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy.

“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.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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“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”

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“That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.”

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“You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes”

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

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.”

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“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.”

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“Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.”

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

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“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.”

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“Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her bag, ripped off a sliver of Evapopaper, and scribbled:
'Can we study tonight? (Tell anyone, and I'll kill you in you sleep!)”

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“I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”

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“That wasn't your mom in you—that was your
dad.”

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