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


Ally Sheedy

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I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse....
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How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar.
"Just about.....
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Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't." Hale took a step toward her. "W...
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Do you understand any of this?" he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive ...
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If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and ma...
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I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat.
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Hale, this life . . .' she started slowly, still practically speechless. 'This . . . what we do--wha...
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Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.
"Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell."
"I...
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How'd you get in here?"
She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand f...
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Time, the greatest thief of all.
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Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.
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So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walte...
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Pretend and it will be true.
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Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.
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Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto...
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Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
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I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale
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Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t...
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It's all right to wonder.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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I love you."
lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going bac...
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Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
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How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
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What is it about your voice that
makes me want to hear you speak?
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I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
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No one should die alone.
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His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the wor...
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I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who...
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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
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It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
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Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle bu...
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I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.
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Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he jus...
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So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I ...
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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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