Ally Carter Quotes - Page 2

And so that means..."
"We have to rob the Henley," Simon said.
Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.

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

You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?"
"Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns."
"No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're...good.

Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as you know it can simply fall away.

Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.

Do
you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the
body’s physical response to imminent harm.
It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our
hand off the stove or let go of the broken
glass.

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

I'll be here when you get back.

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.

You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.

I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.