Quotes from Ally Carter

Sometimes, people run to see if anybody will come after them.

Hey," I said. How are you?" Liz moved from the end of my bed and Zach eased closer, carefully like I was still too fragile. "I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be asking you that." He leaned down and kissed the top of my head. "Remind me to kill you later for going off like that." "It hurts when I laugh," I told him. "Good. Because I'm not joking.

Beyond the wall, the sea stretches out, dark and vast, and I know why – once upon a time – it would have been easy to think the world was flat.

Logan watched her speak. Her voice was the same, but her mouth was different. Why had Logan never noticed her mouth before? Her bottom lip was fuller, but the top lip was shaped like a little bow, and he couldn't decide which lip he liked more. He knew he was going to have to do a lot more looking in order to choose. And it suddenly felt imperative that Logan choose very, very well.

It's encrypted," Bex hissed in frustration. "We risked our bloody necks and we can't even read it. 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.

These are the things I never say to anyone anymore. Not because I don't want to say them — I want to scream them. But these are the things that no one else can bear to hear.

Honor is overrated.

She needed a minute. He needed a minute. Those were the lies he told himself, but the truth was they both needed the past six years back. Only six years would do.

You do a great many things for strangers, Katarina. What are you willing to do for your friends?

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.

Logan had thought he couldn't get any wetter or any colder, but he'd been wrong. So very, very wrong. Like the kind of wrong he was when he had bet Maddie that he could eat all the ice cream in the White House deep freeze and then found out they were preparing for a state dinner and had a hundred gallons. He made it through half of one huge tub before she took pity on him and made him stop.

Thank goodness you're okay.' Preston opened his arms and stepped towards me, but Zach lunged between us. 'That's close enough,' he said, and Preston laughed. Yes, actual laughage.

You think you're cute," she told him. "You think you're gorgeous. But I'm the one guy here who knows better.

I didn't move; I just waited out the night. The school was quiet around me, and I let the silence calm my heartbreak, lull me into a sleepless trance as I stared past my reflection in the dark glass, and whispered, "Happy birthday, Daddy.

She definitely wasn't going to think about how hot Logan looked because: (A) It was Logan! and (B) She'd heard stories about girls who met cute boys and then lost their heads, and being that they were currently being held by a knife-wielding, ticked-off Russian, Maddie really didn't want to find out how literal that saying might be.

Dads sometimes look at daughters like they're more precious than all the diamonds in England. I remembered that—once upon a time—someone had looked like that at me.

Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred that only lives in the blackest, darkest parts of your mind. You have to want it to be true.

A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.

Bex gave me a wink, and for a second I thought about Zach. I know this probably makes me the worst unofficial girlfriend ever, but it was kind of nice not having him there. It felt good to be just us girls again. It was nice to have the chance to miss him

Well, Rachel, the standards in this place must be dropping. I go to sleep and they start letting just anyone in here," Mr. Solomon said

Keep an eye out for caves," she told Logan. "And sometimes you can crawl into the big trees, nest in around the roots. But we have to be careful." "Because of bears?" Logan asked. "And wolves," she said. "Wolves like places like that." "Oh. There are wolves now. Yay," Logan said.

My time at the Gallagher Academy had taught me that there are some things that can never, ever be pulled apart.

Spies are wise. Spies are strong. But, most of all, spies are patient.

That's the thing about being a criminal," Kat told her. "Nothing ever goes according to plan.