Ally Carter Quotes

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.

Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

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

Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.

Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

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

I don't want tea, I want justice!

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.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

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

I'll be here when you get back.

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.

Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.

So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?

I'll be back. And when i am,i promise i'll have answers.

It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.

You should always trust the instincts of children.

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

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

I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.

No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.

I also packed explosives." -Liz

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

If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper." He pointed in Kat's direction.

Hiding is for amateurs.

You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.

Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.

tonight it taco night" -rachel (cam's mom)

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

Your test had cheese meteor questions?" - Bex to Liz.

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Ooh..I want one" - Bex They're not puppies." -Cammie