Quotes from Ally Carter

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.

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

Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.

Thanks for coming," Zach told him. He slapped Jonas on the back. And I felt like I'd fallen into an alternate universe. One where Zach had...friends.

They promised me that this would be my home. That girls like you would always be my sisters. But they weren't my sisters, were they?" Catherine asked, but then the lunacy broke, a quick and fleeting crack, and through it I saw anger and bitterness and rage.

Where's the fun in that?

There are things spies often carry with them: pocket litter, fake IDs, and the occasional weapon-slash-camera-slash-hair accessory. But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them. As I sat inside Sublevel Two that day, I knew the one I held was so heavy I might never see the surface again.

But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.

Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.

No! I need to go home," I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

They were both totally laughing, and he was twirling her, and her hair was flying around like she was in a shampoo commercial. Seriously. She could have sold conditioner to a bald man the way she looked out there.

She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say," So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next time you decide to take a stroll.

I never leave the house with just one knife. Seriously. Do I look like a one-knife kind of girl?

She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.

The Bagshaw's blew up an armored truck one,' Gabrielle offered.

I've seen Joe Solomon every school day for more than a year, but I don't think I'll ever really know him. There are times when he's one of the strongest people I've ever known, and then there are moments--like this one--when I think he might be broken, deep down, in a place that will never mend.

A pair of freshmen rushed by our door talking about who would make a better Gallagher Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Veronica Mars (a debate made much more interesting by the fact it was taking place in Farsi).

The Bagshaws? They didn't know she was a nun!

I know not all people with scars are evil," I snap. "I'm not living in a cartoon.

It's what she does, Ms. Morgan.' Mr. Solomon's eyes found mine, but there was a change in him somehow. 'Running,' he added. 'Of course, technically, her pattern is to do something to get kicked out, but that's not an option now, so she's taken matters into her own hands. Do you know what I'm saying, Ms. Morgan?' But sadly, I didn't. 'Sometimes people run...to see if you'll come after them.

that history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men.

One day, you will see that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong.

Somtimes people run to see if you'll ever come after them. -Joe

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