Top 350 Ally Carter Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.”

— Ally Carter

202. “So do you come here often?” he asked in a slightly self-mocking way. I couldn’t help myself – I smiled. “see, you don’t even have to answer that, because I know all the trash cans in town, and while this is a very nice trash can, it doesn’t look like the kind of trash can a girl like you would normally scavenge from.” I opened my mouth to protest, but he went on. “Now, the trash cans on Seventh Street, those are some very nice trash cans.”

— Ally Carter

203. “That’s the thing about being a criminal,” Kat told her. “Nothing ever goes according to plan.”

— Ally Carter

204. “Kat didn’t know what to say. It’s good to see you too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you’ve gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?”

— Ally Carter

205. “Crazy. I went crazy.”

— Ally Carter

206. “I’ve thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.”

— Ally Carter

207. “Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.”

— Ally Carter

208. “She draped her arm through mine, and, as we walked, I was sure she probably looked chic and cool and European. I felt slow and clumsy and American.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

210. “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

211. “But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”

— Ally Carter

212. “I sang because that is what I do when I am happy and when I’m sad. I sang because it is who I am when I am being the best possible version of me.”

— Ally Carter

213. “Money comes and goes, darling. Tiaras are forever. So are titles.” Gabrielle.”

— Ally Carter

214. “You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy.”

— Ally Carter

215. “And then, more than anything, I wanted to stop hearing Macey’s words, It’s okay for you to like him, because sometimes not liking someone is easier.”

— Ally Carter

216. “One day, you will see that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong.”

— Ally Carter

217. “When I took aim at the very place Amirah had been just seconds before and pulled the trigger, I knew the risk. I knew the cost. And I would do it all over again in a heartbeat if I had to.”

— Ally Carter

218. “And all around me, there are people. Beautiful people. Awkward people. People who are so engrossed with the person beside them that I highly doubt they even remember where they are. People who want to be anywhere but here.”

— Ally Carter

219. “When number one fails, convince them that leaving you behind by yourself is a BAD idea.”

— Ally Carter

220. “Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.”

— Ally Carter

221. “Your mom said I could plan the wedding. She doesn’t care, and between you and me I’m so relieved. It was going to be really hard to manipulate her into letting me make all the decisions anyway. – Macey.”

— Ally Carter

222. “Cammie!” I’ll never forget the tone of Macey’s voice in that moment. “Cam,” she said slowly, moving toward me, “I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it’s like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you’re feeling, Cam.” Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. “I know.”

— Ally Carter

223. “Hush, little princess, wait and see. No one’s gonna know that you are me.”

— Ally Carter

224. “Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.”

— Ally Carter

225. “I wondered if I had ever been that small. I saw the innocence in their eyes, and I knew somehow that I would never feel that way again. I’d seen too much – I knew too little.”

— Ally Carter

226. “I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it.”

— Ally Carter

227. “Also, you don’t really realize how much weekend time is actually hang-out-with-your-friends time until the aforementioned friends are acting all weird around you.”

— Ally Carter

228. “Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world’s caviar when she was seven.”

— Ally Carter

229. “This is her world. Her domain. Politics and intricate back-alley deals, trade alliances formed over champagne and shrimp cocktail.”

— Ally Carter

230. “And I didn’t choose it, Kat. I chose you.”

— Ally Carter

231. “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

232. “There are different kinds of darkness, and Joe Solomon knew them all. From the black that lives behind blindfolds to the deep shadows of prison cells built underground. He’d seen everything. But he never could get used to how the darkness of midnight always feels different from the darkness of dawn. One marks the end and the other the beginning, but as he sat beside the perfectly still water and watched the sky begin to brighten, he honestly didn’t know which one was coming.”

— Ally Carter

233. “Maddie had never really understood why they had four chairs. It’s not like they did a lot of entertaining. Not unless you counted the time Maddie had forgotten to lock up her cereal in an airtight container and a bear had tried to break through the cabin’s front door. Which Maddie totally did not count. That bear hadn’t been invited and would never be welcome again.”

— Ally Carter

234. “Honor is overrated.”

— Ally Carter

235. “You’re going to have to find another way to your room... Oh, and Cameron, dear, please make sure your alternative route doesn’t involve crawling inside any walls.”

— Ally Carter

236. “It’s simple: just give the eyes something new to look at so that the mind doesn’t truly see.”

— Ally Carter

237. “A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s not about ignoring fear. It’s about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.”

— Ally Carter

238. “Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.”

— Ally Carter

239. “No, you misunderstand, Madame Prime Minister. I’m not just good at staying alive. I’m also really, really good at drugging people. – Grace.”

— Ally Carter

240. “If Ioseph Cavan’s followers want to settle the score with Gillian Gallagher’s great-great-granddaughter, then they’re going to have to deal with all of us. – Cam.”

— Ally Carter

241. “Well, technically, we’d be re-stealing them,” he said dryly. “It’s kind of like a double negative.”

— Ally Carter

242. “But Hale wasn’t just a member of her crew who had messed up. He was Hale. Her Hale. And Kat just wanted him back.”

— Ally Carter

243. “Somehow, I think the fact that the inceptor looked like a cross between a young George Clooney and Orlando Bloom might have played into that a little bit.”

— Ally Carter

244. “Rule of thumb: when in doubt, find a marine.”

— Ally Carter

245. “Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.”

— Ally Carter

246. “Five decades on the throne and this is how they treat me, Ms. Blakely. Makes me wish I’d been a teacher.” His voice drops. He almost sounds a little wistful. “I would have liked to have been a teacher.”

— Ally Carter

247. “I don’t understand boys.”

— Ally Carter

248. “But the woman smiles, unable to hear the things I don’t say.”

— Ally Carter

249. “He’s been looking at me like I’ve been drinking, and I can’t blame him. My dress is ripped and my words slur. I’m not myself, I think, bu then I realize something even scarier: I am exactly myself.”

— Ally Carter

250. “Bex gave me a wink, and for a second I thought about Zach. I know this probably makes me the worst unofficial girlfriend ever, but it was kind of nice not having him there. It felt good to be just us girls again. It was nice to have the chance to miss him.”

— Ally Carter