Ally Carter Quotes

You know you're smarter than all of them, right? Hale said flatly.In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it...He glanced at the blackjack tables.Simon shook his head. I don't count cards, Hale.Don't? Hale smiled. Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal.But it's frowned upon.Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.

~ Ally Carter

I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you.“I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the lower stairs. “Way worse.”“Oh, not the attack.” Bex raised her finger in contradiction. “What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn’t think you were going to have one.

~ Ally Carter

The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead.

~ Ally Carter

Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.

~ Ally Carter

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

~ Ally Carter

Friends help each other when they are...you know...going up international hit men and stuff.

~ Ally Carter

I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?

~ Ally Carter

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

~ Ally Carter

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

~ Ally Carter

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.

~ Ally Carter

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.

~ Ally Carter

For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down.

~ Ally Carter

There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

~ Ally Carter

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

~ Ally Carter

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.

~ Ally Carter

You cannot con an honest man.

~ Ally Carter

Lies aren't just the things we tell -- they're the lives we lead.

~ Ally Carter

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.

~ Ally Carter

Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.

~ Ally Carter

Even at the Gallagher Academy, they don't teach you to break somebody's heart.

~ Ally Carter

But even the Gallagher Academy hadn't figured out a way to help us protect our hearts.

~ Ally Carter

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool.

~ Ally Carter

I don't want tea, I want justice!

~ Ally Carter

I know. I'm sorry. And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. But I can't be. That girl is dead.

~ Ally Carter

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.

~ Ally Carter

How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my indicators of humbleness list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now).

~ Ally Carter

On most guys, Hale's smile would have looked sheepish. On him, it was so roguishly charming that Kat's heart actually skipped a beat.

~ Ally Carter

As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.

~ Ally Carter

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know

~ Ally Carter

And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop.

~ Ally Carter

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.

~ Ally Carter

I can sleep anywhere. Planes. Trains. Sofa. Lawn chairs. Call it the upside to my life as an army brat. Never having a home means, I guess, that everywhere is your home. There is absolutely no place I'm anxious to return to. But this is different.I'm not trying to fall asleep in someplace new; I'm trying to fall asleep in someplace that's old.

~ Ally Carter

Eventually, we all end up alone.

~ Ally Carter

My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, “How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can’t tell me.

~ Ally Carter

But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.

~ Ally Carter

Honor is overrated.

~ Ally Carter

She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.

~ Ally Carter

I'll be here when you get back.

~ Ally Carter

Count me in, Kat. He squeezed her tighter. You should always count me in. - W. W. Hale the Fifth

~ Ally Carter

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

~ Ally Carter