Quotes from Ally Carter

Kat had already passed for a Franciscan nun during a particularly difficult job in Vatican City).

She thought about how silly her History of Art teacher had sounded when she'd waxed poetic about seeing the Mona Lisa (when Kat knew for a fact that the Louvre's original had been replaced with a fake in 1862).

Hey," Hale snapped. "We all agreed that that monkey seemed perfectly well trained at the time.

Groundhog?" Hale asked. "No time," Kat replied. "The tunneling alone would take days, and Taccone wouldn't leave these woods unpatrolled for that long.

Fallen Angel?" "Maybe," Kat answered, looking to the sky. "But even on a night with no moon, that inner courtyard is awfully small to risk someone seeing you or your parachute. And no one builds guard towers if they aren't going to fill them with guards.

loudspeakeras

So someone either Trojan Horsed or Avon Ladied

But in the suite, all Kat heard was the deep sighs of her companions and their simultaneous exclamation, "Benjamin Franklin.

My life is a never-ending conversation of the things that people do not say.

Ahora sé cómo lucen las estrellas de verdad. Estoy harta de las imitaciones.

Cool." Hale's voice was pure awe. "Benjamin Franklin with a side of Loch Ness Monster.

Uncle Eddie admitted with a shrug, still holding her and beaming. "It's good to see you, little one." He scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.

In fact, I don't read as many YA novels as I used to because YA is just so good and, inevitably, I always end up in the fetal position on the floor, rocking back and forth, mumbling about how my book will never be as good as the book I just finished.

and when you're the girl known for being invisible, there's nothing quite as scary as being seen. - Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy

Did you know there's a place under the stairs in the East Wing that's full of spiders that died during the Nixon administration? Do you think that's true? I don't think that's true," she said without really waiting for Charlie to answer. "I could ask Dad," Maddie went on. "But he didn't work here then. At least I don't think he worked here then. I mean, I know he's old. Like, really, really old. But is he that old?

I've spent my whole life tailing after people who think they're more interesting than me

People call me The Chameleon here—if you go to spy school, I guess that's a pretty good nickname.

Hours passed. Her thoughts blended together until they were like an Impressionist painting, and Kat knew she was too close to see anything plainly.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.