Home > Work > All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1) QUOTES

All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1) QUOTES

1 " Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

2 " Friends help each other when they are...you know...going up international hit men and stuff. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

3 " Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

4 " 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. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

5 " 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. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

6 " I can sleep anywhere. Planes. Trains. Sofa. Lawn chairs. Call it the upside to my life as an army brat. Never having a home means, I guess, that everywhere is your home. There is absolutely no place I'm anxious to return to. But this is different.
I'm not trying to fall asleep in someplace new; I'm trying to fall asleep in someplace that's old. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

7 " She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

8 " Ok," he says. "First lesson."

Noah broadens his stance, taking his place firmly on the embassy side of the threshold. "in the United States," he says. Then, with both feet, he leaps on to the sidewalk. "Out of the United States." Quickly, he jumps back toward me. "In the United States." Another jump across the threshold. "Out of the United States. In. Out. In --"

"Is this the part where I hit you? "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

9 " The obvious," Noah goes on, a little out of breath, "being that he is probably some super secret assassin or something. And I'm not as tough as I look."
"That's OK," I tell him. "I'm way tougher than you look. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

10 " I know. I'm sorry." And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. But I can't be. That girl is dead. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

11 " I'm a man without a country. Or I'm a man with too many countries-you pick. Ultimately, in both global politics and the high school power hierarchy, they amount to the same thing. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

12 " So are you going to tell me what happened last night?"
"You were there. You saw what happened."
"No. Last night...that wasn't you."
"The last time you saw me I was jumping off the wall, Megan."
Megan's gaze burns into me. She isn't backing down. "You were always a daredevil, but you never had a death wish. The girl I knew was always running towards something. Last night...you were running away. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

13 " Mom’s Israeli. Dad’s Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

14 " I've attended seven schools in ten years," I explain. "So you can rest assured I know you. You're the girl who thinks being cruel is the same thing as being witty. You think being loud is the same thing as being right. And, most of all, you're the girl who is very, very pretty. And also very, very...common. trust me. There's at least one of you in every school." I watch her features shift. "Oh. Wait. Did you think you were unique? "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

15 " Congratulations," I tell her with a slight bow. "I hope you and your power trip will be very happy together. Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time for me to go. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

16 " I am the Girl Who Cried Wolf. And now I am the only one who can save the lambs. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

17 " Grace, if you have used an iron within the last six months, I will eat that fork," Ms. Chancellor says.
"Which one?" I try to tease. "You've got a lot of forks to choose from."
"From which to choose, Grace. Do not end your sentences in prepositions, dear."
"Of course, I totally see what you're getting at. I mean, at what you're getting. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

18 " The boy doesn’t wink, but he gives me the kind of smile that goes with one. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

19 " We haven’t actually laid eyes on Lila yet, but I can hear her moving around in the room next door, noisy but unseen. Like a very entitled, very tortured poltergeist. I’m half afraid she’ll float through the wall at any minute. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

20 " You’re following me,” I say.
“Yes, I am.”
“That’s really annoying.”
“I’m sure it probably feels that way, yes.”
I stop. “I can take care of myself.” Overhead, the gas in the streetlamp surges. It grows brighter, harsher. There are no shadows anywhere as he looks at me.
“That’s exactly what worries me. "

― Ally Carter , All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)