Quotes By Author: Ally Carter
“You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.”
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“Time, Ms. McHenry,” Townsend said. “It can be a cruel, cruel thing”
“Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.”
“Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.”
“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…” he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, “Revenge.”
“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.”
“Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn’t know about Zachary Goode. Like how soap and shampoo could smell so much better on him than anyone else. Like where he went when he wasn’t mysteriously showing up at random (and frequently dangerous) points in my life. And, most of all, I didn’t know how, when he mentioned the jacket, he made me think about the sweet, romantic part of the night last November when he’d given it to me, and not the terrible, bloody, international-terrorists-are-trying-to-kidnap-me part that came right after”
“Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn’t mean it won’t be painful.”
“Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.”
“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
“Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)”
“If you ever put a student at this school in danger again-”Oh, I thought you Gallagher Girls were immune to danger.’Despite the hundred girls the filled the foyer, no one moved or gasped or tried to defend our honor. We stood silently, waiting for our headmistress to say, ‘Oh, we are quite used to being underestimated, Agent Townsend. In fact, we welcome it.”
“You look disappointed to see me, Zach,” Macey teased. “Don’t you like my jacket?”
“You don’t need a search warrant to go through someone’s trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up.”