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Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

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Powerful, Lying, Men

Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.225, ReadHowYouWant.com

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She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a litle as she told him, "You are so like your father." Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend sttod by the door with his arms crossed. "What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you." And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Ally Carter

Father, Sleep, Eye

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"No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.

Ally Carter

Long, Pants, Honest

"United We Spy". Book by Ally Carter, September 5, 2013.

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Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

Ally Carter

Girl, Growing Up, Teenage

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I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted

Ally Carter

Girl, Desperate Measures, Weapons

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Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.

Ally Carter

Mother, Aunt, Bed

Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Cammie's going to be mad she missed this," Macey said to fill the silence. "Excuse me?" Hale asked. "Nothing." She shook her head. "I just...I have a friend who really likes air vents. And dumbwaiter shafts. And laundry chutes. Of course, the last time I was in a laundry chute, Cammie and I fell about a dozen stories..." "well, that sounds like fun." "it was either that or get kidnapped by terrorists, so I guess we got of easy.

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Fun, Air, Mad

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If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.

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Want, Victim, Ifs

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But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost in a dream when he said, "So, your dad broke into the patent office." "Yep," Kat told him. "How many goats am I going to owe him for that?" "More than you've got, big guy. Way more than you've got.

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Dream, Dad, Office

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His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.

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Mother, Girlfriend, Fun

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Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie

Ally Carter

Lying, Believe, Book

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So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?" I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?

Ally Carter

Three, World, Said

Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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You're late." Kat said as soon as Hale put the phone to his ear. She wasn't the kind of girl to wait for hello. "What can I say? Macey McHenry has been throwing herself at me..." "See, that's the kind of thing that would make me jealous if she weren't way out of your league." "You know, if I had feelings, that might have hurt them.

Ally Carter

Girl, Hurt, Jealous

"Double Crossed". Book by Ally Carter, January 22, 2013.

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But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.

Ally Carter

Girl, Dust, Hands

Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them

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Running, People, Sometimes

Ally Carter (2011). “Gallagher Girls: Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover”, p.148, Hachette UK

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The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.

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Eye, Blue, Insane

Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.89, Hachette UK

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Basement?' Hamish cried, then glanced at his brother. 'You hear this fellow? He thinks we can just go on down to the furnace and start tinkering?' Angus laughed. 'He probably wouldn't care at all if the whole place went boom, he wouldn't.' At this the guard bristled and stood up even straighter. 'Now see here---' 'No, you see, my good man. Out here, see, we've got snow. So in there, I'd bet, you've got heat. And where there's heat there's gas; and where there's gas there's...' Angus trailed off while his brother said, 'boom.

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Brother, Men, Thinking

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There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

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Secret, Bears

Ally Carter (2011). “Gallagher Girls: Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover”, p.131, Hachette UK

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What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

Ally Carter

Simple, Voice, Joy

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And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.

Ally Carter

Dream, Sleep, Perfect Days

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...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

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Lying, Fitting, Ends

Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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Gabrielle, Hale?" Kat smacked his shoulder. "It wasn't bad enough that you got me kicked out of school, but you had to use her to help you? Gabrielle!" "I can hear you," her cousin sang beside her. Hale looked at Gabrielle and gestured at Kat. "She's adorable when she's jealous." Kat kicked his shin.

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Cousin, Jealous, School

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Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.

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Teacher, Abby, Arguing

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The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.

Ally Carter

Window, Fixed, Uncle Eddie

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There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

Ally Carter

Wall, Silence, Risk

Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.53, Hachette UK

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