Quotes from book

Only the Good Spy Young

“Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.”

“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.”

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

“If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.”

“You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?”

“Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.”

“So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?"
I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?”

“… 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).”

“Insane means fewer cameras!”

“There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.
Hit.
Panic.
Flail.
Freeze.”

“Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Common is overrated.”

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

“That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.”

“real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.”

“to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.”

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