Top 350 Ally Carter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I always finish what I start.”

— Ally Carter

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2. “Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.”

— Ally Carter

3. “Did you hear that? I’m special.”

— Ally Carter

4. “Time, the greatest thief of all.”

— Ally Carter

5. “I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You.”

— Ally Carter

6. “Hes gone. Hes just gone.”

— Ally Carter

7. “Either we’re a team or we aren’t. Either you trust me or you don’t.”

— Ally Carter

8. “Don’t get it right, get it written.”

— Ally Carter

9. “Ooh, the silent treatment.”

— Ally Carter

10. “Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn’t mean it won’t be painful.”

— Ally Carter

11. “Waiting. Like it or not, it’s a skill all spies have to master eventually.”

— Ally Carter

12. “Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care.”

— Ally Carter

13. “If you don’t want to be a victim, don’t act like one.”

— Ally Carter

14. “Small changes. Big differences.”

— Ally Carter

15. “It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.”

— Ally Carter

16. “Hello, Gallagher Girl – Zack.”

— Ally Carter

17. “Even the best thief in the world can’t steal time.”

— Ally Carter

18. “I don’t want tea, I want justice!”

— Ally Carter

19. “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.”

— Ally Carter

20. “The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.”

— Ally Carter

21. “But that’s the thing about being the girl who’s spent years convincing the world she’s not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you’re afraid of everything.”

— Ally Carter

22. “And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.”

— Ally Carter

23. “Once is a stranger; twice is a coincidence; three times is a tail.”

— Ally Carter

24. “Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.”

— Ally Carter

25. “Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.”

— Ally Carter

26. “You’re girls!? he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.”

— Ally Carter

27. “Not if I save you first.”

— Ally Carter

28. “Eventually, we all end up alone.”

— Ally Carter

29. “First time it’s a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it’s a tail.”

— Ally Carter

30. “You shouldn’t judge someone until you’ve walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes.”

— Ally Carter

31. “Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.”

— Ally Carter

32. “For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren’t you?”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

34. “I shouldn’t be alive.”

— Ally Carter

35. “She pulled away and looked at him. ‘I kissed you and you left.’ When Kat heard the pounding, she thought it was the beating of her heart. It was too loud, she thought. Hale was going to hear it; he was going to see it; and he was going to know how much power he had to hurt her.”

— Ally Carter

36. “Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.”

— Ally Carter

37. “Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I’m so sorry I’m not her.”

— Ally Carter

38. “Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.”

— Ally Carter

39. “A Gallagher Girl’s real grades don’t come in pass or fail – they’re measured in life or death.”

— Ally Carter

40. “Where’s the fun in that?”

— Ally Carter

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41. “We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it’s so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.”

— Ally Carter

42. “And yet, she knew she could be.”

— Ally Carter

43. “No! I need to go home,” I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.”

— Ally Carter

44. “Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing.”

— Ally Carter

45. “I am the Girl Who Cried Wolf. And now I am the only one who can save the lambs.”

— Ally Carter

46. “They tried to make you forget – to tell you you were seeing things, misremembering things. But you have always known.”

— Ally Carter

47. “At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.”

— Ally Carter

48. “Why do I feel like I can’t trust you anymore?? I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, ’because the Gallagher Academy doesn’t admit fools.”

— Ally Carter

49. “That’s for me to know, and for you to find out.”

— Ally Carter

50. “Two days after my dad’s funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then – that sometimes a spy doesn’t need a cover so much as she needs a shield.”

— Ally Carter