Quotes from Ally Carter

All grown up and breaking hearts…" She raised her eyebrows. "And rules.

As I thought of Boston; as I heard the words "get her" one more time; as I realised that Macey hadn't been the only Gallagher Girl on the roof that day.

since I know for a fact that her class had been in the physics labs when Mr. Fibs got attacked by the bees he thought he'd genetically modified to obey commands from a whistle. (Turns out they only respond to the voice of James Earl Jones.)

I wondered if I had ever been that small. I saw the innocence in their eyes, and I knew somehow that I would never feel that way again. I'd seen too much - I knew too little.

The embassy is not haunted. But I am.

When I was twelve I broke my leg jumping off the wall between Canada and Germany.

A thin layer of chocolate covers my fingers when I'm finished. "Here," she says, handing me a handkerchief. I rub my hands on my jeans.

Just so you know Gallagher Girl," he whispered softly, "I'm going to kiss you now.

We were not friends. We were simply what becomes of kids who are thrust together so often that, eventually, they run out of reasons not to go play.

How have you been, Gracie?" "Alive.

death is the only thing that could have kept him from you

I never did anything to you, Grace! I never did anything at all. I've been trying to be your friend since we were six years old, but I'm not good enough for you, I guess. I've never been good enough for you.

Sometimes the sexism in this country amazes me, but then I remembered that society's tendency to underestimate women is a Gallagher Girl's greatest weapon...

Don't let the glitter fool you." She wiggles her shiny nails in the air, then taps her temple. "I'm up here." … "How did you…?" "Mymom is the chief operations officer for the CIA stationed in Europe," she tells me. "I pay attention." "I see that," I say.

That is the palace's facial-recognition program chronicling everyone who entered the gala last night." Megan leans back and crosses her arms. She knows that we're impressed. She is impressed. And I have to admit she has every right to be.

Let's have a baby, Abs. We've taken down terrorist cells. Surely we can handle one little baby. Spies

MTV will lead us to believe that the B word has become a term of endearment or slang among equals, but I still mainly think of it as the insult of choice for the inarticulate.

Megan is coming down the street, and when she sees me and Lila together, for a split second it looks like she wants to run. Save herself. And I can't say I blame her.

For a second, I actually wonder if my brother, the saint, might actually be lying.

But I knew Rebecca Baxter well enough to know that she wasn't talking about the spies. She was talking about…the boys.

Megan's voice is harder. She's challenging authority, and I instantly regret letting her become my friend. It's maybe the worst thing I could have done to her.

I see the gun. I can feel it in my hand.

They tried to make you forget - to tell you you were seeing things, misremembering things. But you have always known.

Noah learned how to please everyone." Lila pierces me with a glare. "I learned there's no use trying to please anyone.