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“Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.”
-- Ally Carter
#Inspirational #Girly #Knowing
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“She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.”
-- Ally Carter
#Building #Feels #Remorse
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“The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.”
-- Ally Carter
#Teacher
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“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”
-- Ally Carter
#Truth #Lying #Hazards
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“It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.”
-- Ally Carter
#Epic #Awkward
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“Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.”
-- Ally Carter
#Mean #Painful
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“Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.”
-- Ally Carter
#Eye #Outsiders #Sometimes
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“...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).”
-- Ally Carter
#Doe #Easy #Plans
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“As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of here," he told her. "Go downstairs. Go now." "No," she countered. "You go." "Why?" he asked. "You tell me first." But before they could say another word, the last elevator slid slowly open and two men in masks rushed out. From the opposite side of the of the ballroom, shots rang out, rapid fire, piercing the ceiling, plaster falling onto the dance floor like snow. And then Hale and Macey whispered in unison, "Because of that.”
-- Ally Carter
#Fall #Men #Opposites
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“When Hale's hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn't exactly sure what he'd find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except... "Is that an earbud?" she whispered. He smiled. "Are you on comms?" "Shhh," he told her softly.”
-- Ally Carter
#Hands #Phones #Pockets
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“That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"---he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage---"is a Hurst 5,000 PSI hydraulic spreader-cutter, more commonly know as the Jaws of Life." "So?" "So I'm not a normal boy.”
-- Ally Carter
#Boys #Pieces #Normal
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“Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.”
-- Ally Carter
#Art #Communication #Jealous
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“Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired." "Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?" "Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him. Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.”
-- Ally Carter
#Ties #Long #Mind
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“Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.”
-- Ally Carter
#Senior #Cousin #Queens
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“Tell me Zach.†I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.”
-- Ally Carter
#Lying #Wind
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“Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably less conspicuous had the Bagshaws not been dressed as chimney sweeps). Kat turned back to Hale. 'The Mary Poppins?' 'Seemed like a good idea at the time.”
-- Ally Carter
#Ideas #Two #Might
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“Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.”
-- Ally Carter
#Doors #Black #Harness
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“You still don't get it, do you, Margaret?' Kat smiled almost sadly. 'We never had to steal the Antony. All we had to do was get it next to the Cleopatra and switch the signs.”
-- Ally Carter
#Next #Stealing #Antony
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“Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming?”
-- Ally Carter
#Switzerland #Sunglasses #Needs
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“Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care”
-- Ally Carter
#Acting #Care #Like You
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“But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”
-- Ally Carter
#Lying #Artist #Con Artist
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“It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.”
-- Ally Carter
#Wise #Young
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“I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.”
-- Ally Carter
#Mom #Nice #Thinking
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“Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)”
-- Ally Carter
#Ice Cream #Two #Numbers
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“If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.”
-- Ally Carter
#Europe #Doe #Prison
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“When the woman took the earbud, he didn't ask another question. She was a woman on a mission as she placed the tiny device in her ear and said, "This is Special Agent Abby Cameron. Let me talk to Macey McHenry.”
-- Ally Carter
#Special #Abby #Tiny
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“That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace. The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?" "Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.”
-- Ally Carter
#Men #Eyebrows #Lovely
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“Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.”
-- Ally Carter
#Girl #Son #Land
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“The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all. Katarina Bishop followed no one.”
-- Ally Carter
#Moving #Kids #Opposites
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“So instead she settled on, "Did my father put you up to this?" Hale exhaled a quick laugh and shook his head. "He hasn't returned my calls since Barcelona." He leaned closer and whispered, "I think he might still be mad at me." "Yeah, well, that makes two of us." "Hey," Hale snapped. "We all agreed that that monkey seemed perfectly well trained at the time.”
-- Ally Carter
#Father #Thinking #Two
