Ally Carter quote: "Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred that only lives in the blackest, darkest parts of your mind. You have to want it to be true."

Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.
ALLY CARTER

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becom...
ALLY CARTER

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

Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving ...
ALLY CARTER

...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
ALLY CARTER

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
ALLY CARTER

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.
ALLY CARTER

And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who ...
ALLY CARTER

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a ...
ALLY CARTER

Okay, gang," I said, "according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of ...
ALLY CARTER

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pac...
ALLY CARTER

What is a Gallagher Girl?
She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is ...
ALLY CARTER

Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Wh...
ALLY CARTER

Hey, Macey, sorry to drop in but Cammie just had to be alone with me. You know how she gets.
ALLY CARTER

The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream
and ...
ALLY CARTER

And there's a cop over there."
"What?" the boy said, glancing at the D.C. police officer that s...
ALLY CARTER

Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked.

Just then, every girl at eve...
ALLY CARTER

Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive...
ALLY CARTER

Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.
ALLY CARTER

Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or ca...
ALLY CARTER

Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?”
I shifted ...
ALLY CARTER

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

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

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

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick Jam...
ALLY CARTER

So are you going to tell me what happened last night?"
"You were there. You saw what happened."...
ALLY CARTER

Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organiz...
ALLY CARTER

I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a...
ALLY CARTER

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

You cannot con an honest man.
ALLY CARTER

Its Vermeer"
Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen"
"What can I ...
ALLY CARTER

Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm...
ALLY CARTER

Seriously", Macey snapped. "go. Kiss. A baby"
"can you believe her?" Preston asked, coking his ...
ALLY CARTER

...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is...
ALLY CARTER

So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?
--Z
P.S. ...
ALLY CARTER

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

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

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 thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kin...
ALLY CARTER

I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy - that I'...
ALLY CARTER

'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

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..."
ALLY CARTER

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

It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not...
ALLY CARTER

Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught."
The smile Kat flashed over her shou...
ALLY CARTER

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse....
ALLY CARTER

How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar.
"Just about.....
ALLY CARTER

Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't." Hale took a step toward her. "W...
ALLY CARTER

Do you understand any of this?" he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive ...
ALLY CARTER

If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and ma...
ALLY CARTER

I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat.
ALLY CARTER

Hale, this life . . .' she started slowly, still practically speechless. 'This . . . what we do--wha...
ALLY CARTER

Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.
"Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell."
"I...
ALLY CARTER

How'd you get in here?"
She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand f...
ALLY CARTER

Time, the greatest thief of all.
ALLY CARTER

Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.
ALLY CARTER

So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walte...
ALLY CARTER

Pretend and it will be true.
ALLY CARTER

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.
ALLY CARTER

Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto...
ALLY CARTER

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
ALLY CARTER

I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale
ALLY CARTER

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

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very ...
ALLY CARTER

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

i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep
ALLY CARTER

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown me...
ALLY CARTER

Insane means fewer cameras!
ALLY CARTER

You are my best friend. And sometimes I like to check and make sure my friends aren’t dead.
ALLY CARTER

Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?
ALLY CARTER

You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly.
"In fact, if you wanted to ...
ALLY CARTER

As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girl...
ALLY CARTER

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it ...
ALLY CARTER

I don't want tea, I want justice!
ALLY CARTER

Once is a stranger; twice is a coincidence; three times is a tail.
ALLY CARTER

Maybe it's only fitting that a relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
ALLY CARTER

I felt Mr. Smith's pop bottle in my hand, and for a second I couldn't remember why I would be carryi...
ALLY CARTER

He's just . . .” I tried, wanting to say “sweet” or “caring” or “funny”—because they...
ALLY CARTER

So do you come here often?” he asked in a slightly self-mocking way. I couldn't help myself—I sm...
ALLY CARTER

The only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And locked in a conc...
ALLY CARTER

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an...
ALLY CARTER

A pair of freshmen rushed by our door talking about who would make a better Gallagher Girl: Buffy th...
ALLY CARTER

It was my scientific opinion that Zach was one of those people who used his intelligence to make sur...
ALLY CARTER

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA cu...
ALLY CARTER

I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for...
ALLY CARTER

If you ever wonder whether or not someone is too good for you, I'd advise going through their trash....
ALLY CARTER

I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew ...
ALLY CARTER

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One f...
ALLY CARTER

What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy....
ALLY CARTER

She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a little as she told him, "You are so like your father....
ALLY CARTER

I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day ...
ALLY CARTER

She thought she was only seeing him because she wanted to see him... It's a by-product of very drama...
ALLY CARTER

Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto i...
ALLY CARTER

Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Alive.
ALLY CARTER

Somebody knows.
ALLY CARTER

You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.
ALLY CARTER

Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my ...
ALLY CARTER

Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid t...
ALLY CARTER

Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her b...
ALLY CARTER

...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my gra...
ALLY CARTER

But I kept it to myself--maybe because I didn't think it mattered, but probably because, in a place ...
ALLY CARTER

I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtain...
ALLY CARTER

The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit...
ALLY CARTER

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.
ALLY CARTER

Hey, Cammie... tell Suzie she's a lucky cat."

Have sexier words ever been spoken? ...
ALLY CARTER

The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at...
ALLY CARTER

Even though Liz might have been at the bottom of our class in P&E, she is the best person I've e...
ALLY CARTER

In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO ...
ALLY CARTER

If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have ...
ALLY CARTER

Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she as...
ALLY CARTER

That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing i...
ALLY CARTER

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

Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too in...
ALLY CARTER

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

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomforta...
ALLY CARTER

Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.
ALLY CARTER

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

Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways...
ALLY CARTER

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the for...
ALLY CARTER

I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform t...
ALLY CARTER

I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing...
ALLY CARTER

Spy.
ALLY CARTER

So I stared out at that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think ab...
ALLY CARTER

Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.'
ALLY CARTER

My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that ...
ALLY CARTER

I never knew there were this many stars."

"I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you...
ALLY CARTER

Oh, can I? Because what I want to do is strangle you. I want to tie you up and throw you over my sho...
ALLY CARTER

Don't get it right, get it written.
ALLY CARTER

seasoned operative should always check his or her perimeter at unexpected times and in unexpected wa...
ALLY CARTER

Crazy. I went crazy.
ALLY CARTER

What was so important that I had to risk my friends' safety to sneak out here?" I demanded. "Huh? Wh...
ALLY CARTER

to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember...
ALLY CARTER

Common is overrated.
ALLY CARTER

real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.
ALLY CARTER

Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother.
“No,” I said, soun...
ALLY CARTER

So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?"
I looked at my three best...
ALLY CARTER

That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a lia...
ALLY CARTER

I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it....
ALLY CARTER

It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you ...
ALLY CARTER

Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn't know about Zac...
ALLY CARTER

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

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

If you ever put a student at this school in danger again-'
'Oh, I thought you Gallagher Girls w...
ALLY CARTER

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

Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.
ALLY CARTER

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA cu...
ALLY CARTER

How Not to Break Into Sublevel Two
(A list by Cameron Morgan, with help from Macey McHen...
ALLY CARTER

Step 4: Cough and gag.
Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside...
ALLY CARTER

What about a Princess Bride?"
"Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?
ALLY CARTER

You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.'
ALLY CARTER

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out."- zach
ALLY CARTER

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking t...
ALLY CARTER

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.
ALLY CARTER

You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you ...
ALLY CARTER

Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare.

ALLY CARTER

Because that's the thing about hope- you can never kill it yourself.
ALLY CARTER [WRITER]

Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterward...
ALLY CONDIE

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
ALLY CONDIE

I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches t...
ALLY CONDIE

They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will la...
ALLY CONDIE

Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. ...
ALLY CONDIE

The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient...
CARL ALLY

Aber die Liebe lässt einen genauer und immer genauer hinsehen. Man bemerkt den Handrücken, eine Dr...
ALLY CONDIE

But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almo...
ALLY CONDIE

Why are some things easier to write than say?
ALLY CONDIE

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
ALLY CONDIE

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?
ALLY CONDIE

Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps ...
ALLY CONDIE

My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She ...
ALLY CONDIE

We're doing really well. We're keeping our possessions and having patience before taking a shot.
ALLY STROUP

I was kind of by the 18-yard box. Mandy sent a really good ball to me, but I couldn't go with it. So...
ALLY STROUP

We were dominating the game. We knew we would get a lot of opportunities.
ALLY STROUP

Defending the home field is very important. Last year, we started winning (at home) and we're trying...
ALLY STROUP

On the last goal Mandy sent the ball over the defense to me. I shot and it bounced off the goalie. E...
ALLY STROUP

In the beginning of the season we did a good job of getting used to playing with each other. The Car...
ALLY STROUP

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learning's, if not with what I went throug...
ALLY SHEEDY

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.
ALLY SHEEDY

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify wi...
ALLY SHEEDY

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a ...
ALLY SHEEDY

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in ...
ALLY SHEEDY

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
ALLY SHEEDY

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
ALLY SHEEDY

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.
ALLY SHEEDY

Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred that only lives in the blackest, darkest parts of your mind. You have to want it to be true.

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Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred that only lives in the blackest, darkest parts of your mind. You have to want it to be true.

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