Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?


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It's really about relationships. The core activities ? the swimming pool, the tower ? those are fun ...
ALLY BARNES
They learn how to make friends. That's something that you just assume everybody knows how to do, but...
ALLY BARNES
She did it four more times that same week of camp. She's just a whiz on our tower now.
ALLY BARNES
But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.
ALLY CARTER
What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my s...
ALLY CARTER
You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running...
ALLY CARTER
Wisdom beyond your years is learned from education and heartbreak.
ALLY FAZIO
Sometimes even the monsters are cowardly.
ALLY FAZIO
Somedays we believe we can carry the weight of the world on our shoulders and other days we know we ...
ALLY FAZIO
I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that thre...
ALLY CARTER
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
ALLY CARTER
Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it.

"T...
ALLY CARTER
Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex
ALLY CARTER
and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi
ALLY CARTER
I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me...
ALLY CARTER
I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basical...
ALLY WALKER
I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kin...
ALLY CARTER
Where does it say that women can't act like men sometimes? I saw a cute piece of meat and I said to ...
ALLY MCBEAL
Here is a list of the ten worst things I have done:
ALLY KENNEN
I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy - that I'...
ALLY CARTER
Music is my way of sharing my story, of giving back, and hopefully offering hope.
ALLY MCBEAL
'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?
ALLY CARTER
I always finish what i start
ALLY CARTER
Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?
ALLY CARTER
How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body langua...
ALLY CARTER
And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.
ALLY CARTER
I sprung you because I've got a message for you"
"doesn't your family own a cell phone company?...
ALLY CARTER
If you stab me in the back than you are a fool. If you want to hurt me than look me in the eyes.
ALLY FAZIO
Not everyone's a monster, but the ones that are, they're harder to find because they don't look like...
ALLY FAZIO
Individuals can cause damage, but a group can cause chaos.
ALLY FAZIO
People can change, but they only get one second chance.
ALLY FAZIO
I am nothing if not something.
ALLY FAZIO
I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..."
ALLY CARTER
I’m a cold-hearted bastard. I’m insular, I’m jaded, a workaholic, I’m ruthless and I’m sel...
ALLY BLAKE
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't ow...
ALLY CARTER
There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a tee...
ALLY CARTER
Gabrielle, Hale?" Kat smacked his shoulder. "It wasn't bad enough that you got me kicked out of scho...
ALLY CARTER
You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both...
ALLY CARTER
No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the ...
ALLY CARTER
Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possi...
ALLY CARTER