Evil Spy School (Spy School #3) QUOTES

41 " a nine, an ampersand, one of those weird O’s with a line through it that the Swedish like so much. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

42 " Instead, Cyrus slalomed through them, trying to lose our pursuers, resulting in some terrifyingly close calls. We barely avoided being flattened by one outbound freighter and nearly got pureed by the rear propellers of another. “Woo-hoo!” Alexander yelled. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

43 " Murray took a bite of his sandwich. It was ostensibly bacon, lettuce, and tomato, but it was really more like bacon, lettuce, bacon, tomato, and more bacon. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

44 " Hey,” Alexander said, his chloroform haze finally dissipating. “Those people were trying to kill us! This isn’t fun at all!” “Nice of you to join us.” Cyrus turned toward the pier in New Jersey, where we’d started out that night, but now saw there were reinforcements coming from that direction. A lot of reinforcements. Twelve boats in all. Alexander’s eyes grew as big as golf balls with fear. “They’ve cut off our escape route!” “I noticed.” Cyrus cursed under his breath and reoriented us toward the tip of Manhattan. All the other boats slewed in the water a bit as they changed course behind us, then revved their engines and rejoined the chase. “Without an escape route, we can’t escape!” Alexander babbled. “What do we do now? "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

45 " If anything goes wrong, get the heck out of there.” As if I was maybe going to hang out and fix myself a frozen yogurt. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

46 " Bacterial contamination. They had to shut it down last spring. A couple kids who’d gone swimming ended up covered with hives. They looked like raspberries in Speedos. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

47 " Could be. What kind of people name their kid Nefarious?” “Exactly. Although, believe it or not, Nefarious actually got off easy. According to his file, his folks named his little sister Placenta. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

48 " both men were tough, tightly wound, and constantly annoyed with how bad I was at advanced weaponry. Or even basic weaponry, for that matter. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

49 " My grandmother can shoot that gun better than you can—and she’s dead! How on earth did you ever manage to defeat our organization twice with skills like those? "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

50 " Mrs. Henderson, who covered mathematics, science, and bomb construction, was a doting, motherly woman who often cooked dinner for us as well, while Mr. Garabindian, our coach (who insisted we just call him “Mr. G”) was supportive, cheerful, and friendly, even when showing us how to kill someone with his bare hands. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

51 " from a man who’d swiped the dessert from his secretary’s lunch bag for a year and then tried to pin it on the janitorial staff. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

52 " I couldn’t just go to Joshua Hallal and say, “Here’s a funny story: I only agreed to come to this school because I thought the CIA wanted me to be an undercover agent here and find out what your evil plans were. But it turns out, they didn’t. So, do you think I could just drop out and go back to normal life? I promise I won’t tell the CIA anything about your secret hideout. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

53 " One of them was staggeringly large for a boy his age. He was built like a sequoia tree. The other was a surprisingly small girl. She looked like a heavily armed elf. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

54 " Because any line out is also a line in. The government could use it to access our computers.” “That’s not true,” I argued. “It is! That’s how SPYDER accesses the government’s computers.” This bit of news was disturbing to me, but not exactly a surprise. SPYDER was a subversive and technologically advanced organization. Frankly, it would have been more startling to hear that they hadn’t accessed the government’s computers. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

55 " Don’t you think that if SPYDER wants me to be part of an operation, it’d make sense for me to know what that operation is?” “Not necessarily.” Murray took a bite of his sandwich. It was ostensibly bacon, lettuce, and tomato, but it was really more like bacon, lettuce, bacon, tomato, and more bacon. Murray had been consuming an absolutely astonishing amount of bacon since getting out of prison, as well as astonishing amounts of soda, ice cream, candy, cake, and sausage, too. Even though he’d been at Hidden Forest for only a few days, he seemed to have gained several pounds in that time. Across the room, Ashley hopped out of the pool and headed for the water slide. “Why would SPYDER want to keep its agents in the dark?” I asked. Murray said, “When the Allies were about to invade France on D-day in World War Two, do you think the generals told everyone what the plan was? No. Because they knew that if they did, someone might blab it. Not on purpose, mind you. But it happens. People talk. One guy shoots his mouth off, and the next thing you know, the Allies show up on Normandy Beach to find the entire Nazi army waiting to massacre them.” Murray’s comparing SPYDER to the Allied Forces made me feel uneasy. After all, if SPYDER was anyone in a World War II scenario, it was the Nazis. “I get the need for secrecy, but at some point before D-day, the Allies told the soldiers what the plan was. They didn’t just drop them off on the beach and say, ‘Surprise! You’re invading France today!’ ” “And you will find out. When the time is right.” Murray took another bite of his sandwich. The single slice of tomato he’d put on it slipped out and plopped into the hot tub, where it quickly disappeared beneath the bubbles. Murray didn’t seem "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

56 " Professor Kuklinski, who taught advanced biochemical weaponry, appeared disappointed in her performance, while Professor Greenwald-Smith, who taught counterespionage, seemed to be giving her some words of encouragement. Next to them, Professor Crandall, who taught self-preservation, had dozed off in his chair. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

57 " Zoe had christened me “Smokescreen” shortly after my recruitment because she had mistakenly believed that my initial incompetence was an act designed to catch my enemies off guard. (“No one could be that inept,” she’d once explained. “I’ve seen turtles that could fight better.”) "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

58 " Several of our own team members had been hit as well. Most had been caught only in the arm or the leg, but that was enough to remove them from the game. They were all shouting things at our mortar base that would have gotten them detention at a normal school. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

59 " Even though I should have been covering our backs, I couldn’t help but watch Erica. In the first place, she could probably cover our backs better than I could, even while being attacked from the front. And second, Erica in action was a thing of beauty. It was like watching a prima ballerina perform Swan Lake, only with a lot more screaming. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

60 " Erica rolled her eyes. “Please. I’ve known how to operate a mortar since I was in preschool.” With most people, this would have been an exaggeration. With Erica, it probably wasn’t. Her father had once showed me a baby picture of her playing with nunchucks. "

― Stuart Gibbs , Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)