Top 350 Ally Carter Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “They tried to make you forget – to tell you you were seeing things, misremembering things. But you have always known.”

— Ally Carter

52. “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

53. “I don’t play any game that I can’t win.”

— Ally Carter

54. “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

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

— Ally Carter

56. “Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.”

— Ally Carter

57. “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

58. “But I didn’t care. Let people judge you. It never changes the truth.”

— Ally Carter

59. “And that’s how the Peacock saved the Chameleon.”

— Ally Carter

60. “All these years I’d thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.”

— Ally Carter

61. “I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don’t dare to let out.”

— Ally Carter

62. “My life is a never ending conversation of the things that people do not say.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

64. “For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I’m going to make us all fall down.”

— Ally Carter

65. “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

66. “Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.”

— Ally Carter

67. “Most people believe me when I lie. I’ve learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of face. But the boy in front of me was a trained operative, so Zach knew better. And besides, Zach new me.”

— Ally Carter

68. “I never leave the house with just one knife. Seriously. Do I look like a one-knife kind of girl?”

— Ally Carter

69. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words from stupid Russian kidnappers can never hurt me.”

— Ally Carter

70. “But there are things you tell yourself. And there are things you know. And Maddie knew that the one person she could depend on was herself. But that’s okay, she thought. I’m usually enough.”

— Ally Carter

71. “I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that’s me – Cammie the Chameleon. But I’m luckier than most because, at my school, that’s considered cool. I go to a school for spies.”

— Ally Carter

72. “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

73. “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

74. “Insane means fewer cameras!”

— Ally Carter

75. “Sweetheart, when you lose someone, you lose a little bit of yourself, too. And that missing piece? Sometimes you have to lose the rest of yourself to find it.”

— Ally Carter

76. “I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief.”

— Ally Carter

77. “That’s good; don’t deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.”

— Ally Carter

78. “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.”

— Ally Carter

79. “I’ll be here when you get back.”

— Ally Carter

80. “I’m sorry if I’m not flirting with you. I’m kind of spoken for.”

— Ally Carter

81. “He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly. “I’m not crazy,” I whispered. “I know.” Believe it or not, that’s the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me. And I kind of loved him for it.”

— Ally Carter

82. “The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks – not stun guns and bulletproof vests.”

— Ally Carter

83. “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.”

— Ally Carter

84. “There are aspectsof this life – of this world – from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.”

— Ally Carter

85. “The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.”

— Ally Carter

86. “Maybe Liz was right and she’d wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we’d run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while.”

— Ally Carter

87. “Crouched on the roof between BEx and Liz, I wasn’t a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend; I looked at my watch and check my gear instead of crying. I had a mission objective and not a broken heart.”

— Ally Carter

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88. “Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn’t know I had, correcting as I fell.”

— Ally Carter

89. “The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I’ll be smarter. I’ll be stronger. I’ll be ready.”

— Ally Carter

90. “Hamish smiled and rubbed his hands together. “Sure we can. What do you say? Pigs in a Blanket?” He leaned over the cool counter and raised his eyebrows at Gabrielle. “The only way I’ll get under a blanket with you is if both of us are on fire,” she told him.”

— Ally Carter

91. “Mom’s Israeli. Dad’s Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department.”

— Ally Carter

92. “I’ve been back less than two weeks, and already I’ve turned the sweetest girl on Embassy Row into a thief and a conspiracy theorist. Even for me, it is an impressively quick act of corruption.”

— Ally Carter

93. “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

94. “Beyond the wall, the sea stretches out, dark and vast, and I know why – once upon a time – it would have been easy to think the world was flat.”

— Ally Carter

95. “I’ve attended seven schools in ten years,” I explain. “So you can rest assured I know you. You’re the girl who thinks being cruel is the same thing as being witty. You think being loud is the same thing as being right. And, most of all, you’re the girl who is very, very pretty. And also very, very... common. trust me. There’s at least one of you in every school.” I watch her features shift. “Oh. Wait. Did you think you were unique?”

— Ally Carter

96. “I’m not an idiot! I’m just twelve. I’m a twelve-year-old girl and neither of those facts are my fault.”

— Ally Carter

97. “It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.”

— Ally Carter

98. “We don’t have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can go anywhere.”

— Ally Carter

99. “Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.”

— Ally Carter

100. “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