Top 350 Ally Carter Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I’m a man without a country. Or I’m a man with too many countries-you pick. Ultimately, in both global politics and the high school power hierarchy, they amount to the same thing.”

— Ally Carter

102. “I have never been one to fall when I can jump.”

— Ally Carter

103. “There are a lot of reasons people come to Las Vegas. Some come because they want to get rich. Some come because they want to get married. Some want to get lost, and others found. Some are running to. Some are running from. It had always seemed to Kat that Vegas was a town where almost everyone was hoping to get something for nothing – an entire city of thieves.”

— Ally Carter

104. “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

105. “Friends help each other when they are... you know... going up international hit men and stuff.”

— Ally Carter

106. “Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can’t see them. I just see you.”

— Ally Carter

107. “Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she’s an ordinary girl.”

— Ally Carter

108. “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.”

— Ally Carter

109. “Some people, after all, don’t care who they yell at as long as they have a reason to keep shouting.”

— Ally Carter

110. “It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus’s head.”

— Ally Carter

111. “But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.”

— Ally Carter

112. “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

113. “Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided.”

— Ally Carter

114. “I felt like Barbie’s less-than-perfect friend.”

— Ally Carter

115. “You don’t need a search warrant to go through someone’s trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up.”

— Ally Carter

116. “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

117. “Every girl thinks about growing up in a palace. Few ever ponder living in a cage.”

— Ally Carter

118. “I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.”

— Ally Carter

119. “The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.”

— Ally Carter

120. “For how easy life must be for him. I wish I were bigger, stronger. Male. I wish I could make people stop worrying about me and my so called frailness.”

— Ally Carter

121. “Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.”

— Ally Carter

122. “That’s when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.”

— Ally Carter

123. “Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it’s a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking.”

— Ally Carter

124. “The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.”

— Ally Carter

125. “Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.”

— Ally Carter

126. “I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”

— Ally Carter

127. “A good thief is always a great liar. It’s part of the skill set, the tools, the craft. And at that moment, Kat thought it was probably a very good thing she’d walked away from the life, because when she said, “No,” Hale just smiled wider.”

— Ally Carter

128. “Sometimes the sexism in this country amazes me, but then I remembered that society’s tendency to underestimate women is a Gallagher Girl’s greatest weapon...”

— Ally Carter

129. “These are the things I never say to anyone anymore. Not because I don’t want to say them – I want to scream them. But these are the things that no one else can bear to hear.”

— Ally Carter

130. “You cannot con an honest man.”

— Ally Carter

131. “Not all people with scars are evil.”

— Ally Carter

132. “I don’t answer. I’m not staging a rebellion here. I stay quiet because I don’t want to break down, and I learnt a long time ago that, sometimes, the only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.”

— Ally Carter

133. “Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.”

— Ally Carter

134. “You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it’s okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. – Macey.”

— Ally Carter

135. “You know, it’s okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won’t kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.”

— Ally Carter

136. “I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it.”

— Ally Carter

137. “Good-bye Dr. Steve,? I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.”

— Ally Carter

138. “He’s a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.”

— Ally Carter

139. “If you can be still enough and common enough, then it’s really easy to be invisible.”

— Ally Carter

140. “It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.”

— Ally Carter

141. “I’m someone who doesn’t have anything to lose.”

— Ally Carter

142. “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.”

— Ally Carter

143. “But as I looked at everything I was supposed to carry and thought about all the things I was supposed to know, I had to wonder: Do all girls go through this? Is every girl on a date really in deep cover?”

— Ally Carter

144. “Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.”

— Ally Carter

145. “Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.”

— Ally Carter

146. “She needed a minute. He needed a minute. Those were the lies he told himself, but the truth was they both needed the past six years back. Only six years would do.”

— Ally Carter

147. “It was a nearly starless sky. Black clouds hung heavy overhead, blocking out the moon.”

— Ally Carter

148. “MTV will lead us to believe that the B word has become a term of endearment or slang among equals, but I still mainly think of it as the insult of choice for the inarticulate.”

— Ally Carter

149. “But I should have known that it doesn’t take that long for change to happen – it takes a second.”

— Ally Carter

150. “Hiding is for amateurs.”

— Ally Carter