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41 " Friends help each other when they are...you know...going up international hit men and stuff. "
― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)
42 " I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job? "
― Ally Carter , United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6)
43 " I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You "
― Ally Carter , I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)
44 " Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her. "
45 " I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork. "
46 " For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down. "
47 " There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it. "
― Ally Carter , Out of Sight, Out of Time (Gallagher Girls, #5)
48 " I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon "
― Ally Carter , Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4)
49 " I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow. "
50 " You cannot con an honest man. "
― Ally Carter , Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society, #2)
51 " Lies aren't just the things we tell -- they're the lives we lead. "
― Ally Carter , Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2)
52 " Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me. "
53 " Even at the Gallagher Academy, they don't teach you to break somebody's heart. "
54 " But even the Gallagher Academy hadn't figured out a way to help us protect our hearts. "
55 " Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool. "
56 " I don't want tea, I want justice! "
57 " 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. "
58 " On most guys, Hale's smile would have looked sheepish. On him, it was so roguishly charming that Kat's heart actually skipped a beat. "
― Ally Carter , The Grift of the Magi (Heist Society, #3.5)
59 " As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way. "
60 " I get it, even if Jamie can't put it into words. There are some books you can never get rid of, even if you don't like the ending. "
― Ally Carter , Take the Key and Lock Her Up (Embassy Row, #3)