Ally Carter Quotes

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• Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

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  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.

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  Building, Feels, Remorse

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• The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

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  Teacher, Teachers Day, Smarter

  "Out of Sight, Out of Time". Book by Ally Carter, March 13, 2012.

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• Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

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  World, Thieves, Stealing

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.92, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Truth, Lying, Hazards

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

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  Mean, Painful

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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).

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  Doe, Easy, Plans

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

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  Liars, Sound, Fool

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.

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  Epic, Awkward

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Teenage, Reading, Writing

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• Ooh, the silent treatment.

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  Silent Treatment, Silent, Treatment

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• I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain." "I see.

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  Stars, Oxygen, Brain

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• Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

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  Lying, Sometimes

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• Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being an upstanding citizen I'll kill 'em, but aren't there...laws and stuff? I mean, can't you...you know...sue him or something?" asked the boy who had once stolen an entire circus, all three rings.

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  Uncles, Mean, Boys

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• A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

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  Girl, Real, Failing

  Ally Carter (2008). “Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)”, Hyperion

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• Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care

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  Acting, Care, Like You

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• Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

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  Shock Therapy, Precaution, Gallagher

  "Out of Sight, Out of Time". Book by Ally Carter, March 13, 2012.

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• love is the biggest con of all

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  Love Is

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• 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.

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  Men, Hair, Laughing

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• It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

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  People, Closest

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• In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)

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  Nice, Stories, Chapters

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.

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  Thinking, Scotland, Knowing

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• Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?' 'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.

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  Doors, Secret, Majesty

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• Is Joe your father, Zach?' I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to. 'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.

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  Dad, Father, Wanted

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.

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  Crosses, Has Beens, Ifs

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.43, Hachette UK

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