Top 380 Ally Carter Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “What are you looking at? Hale asked. Why are you smiling? I worry when you smile.”

— Ally Carter

252. “I’ve been wrong, and I’ve been crazy. But this is the first time I’ve ever truly felt like a fool.”

— Ally Carter

253. “Darling, I may have to work late, so I might not be here when you get back. I hope you had a great time in North Korea and disabled a lot of nuclear weapons. With all my love, Josh.”

— Ally Carter

254. “But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.”

— Ally Carter

255. “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

256. “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

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

259. “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

260. “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

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

— Ally Carter

262. “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

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

— Ally Carter

264. “I don’t understand boys.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

266. “Now I know that, from this point on, we’ll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.”

— Ally Carter

267. “Maybe they’d be interested in joining our bridge club.” The last bridge my parents had anything to do with involved the Gansu Province, dynamite, and a really ticked-off yak, but I just smiled and said, “Thanks.”

— Ally Carter

268. “When I was twelve I broke my leg jumping off the wall between Canada and Germany.”

— Ally Carter

269. “We’re gonna need people,” Kat said as Marcus opened the big double doors. “People we can trust,” she added. Hale nodded and walked her down the ornate hall, pausing before a pair of sliding doors. He pushed them aside, revealing a two-story library, a warm fire, and the familiar faces of the Bagshaw brothers, Simon, and Gabrielle. “You mean, like them?”

— Ally Carter

270. “And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer – that even Gallagher Girls aren’t always as strong as they need to be.”

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271. “I didn’t move; I just waited out the night. The school was quiet around me, and I let the silence calm my heartbreak, lull me into a sleepless trance as I stared past my reflection in the dark glass, and whispered, “Happy birthday, Daddy.”

— Ally Carter

272. “On most guys, Hale’s smile would have looked sheepish. On him, it was so roguishly charming that Kat’s heart actually skipped a beat.”

— Ally Carter

273. “For the first time he’s not looking at me like I’m dangerous. He’s looking at me like I’m broken. It’s a look I know too well.”

— Ally Carter

274. “We were two girls who got lucky, and luck’s not a skill that anyone can learn.”

— Ally Carter

275. “Polite applause filled the room. Only a single whoop echoed out, and Kat made a mental note to have a word with Hamish once this was all over.”

— Ally Carter

276. “Hey, Macey, sorry to drop in but Cammie just had to be alone with me. You know how she gets.”

— Ally Carter

277. “You didn’t steal me,” he whispered, his face so close that she could feel the warmth of his breath. “You rescued me.” “Like Rapunzel?” she teased, and he kissed her again. And again. And again.”

— Ally Carter

278. “Hale, I... ” But Hale was still moving, shrinking the distance between them. He seemed impossibly close as he whispered, “And I didn’t choose it, Kat. I chose you.”

— Ally Carter

279. “The Bagshaws aren’t boys. They’re bombs with very colorful fuses.”

— Ally Carter

280. “But Logan had to laugh when he realized that he was the maiden in this scenario. And he didn’t care one bit.”

— Ally Carter

281. “Hale would scold her if he heard her say it – even here, even now, in the middle of a con. But there was a part of Kat, deep down, that might have even thought it was true if she ever allowed herself to think about such things – if she could stop running, working, grifting long enough to wonder if she was really going to get away with stealing W. W. Hale V. But.”

— Ally Carter

282. “I know there are other couples around us, but they feel like distant blurs. Only Alexei is solid and sure. Between my tight dress and aching feet and swirling head, he may be the only thing keeping me steady.”

— Ally Carter

283. “Congratulations,” I tell her with a slight bow. “I hope you and your power trip will be very happy together. Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for me to go.”

— Ally Carter

284. “Leaving can’t be nearly as hard as being left, Cam.”

— Ally Carter

285. “It was as if a virus had been injected into our school, but Macey’d known about a thousand boys before she’d come here. And I’d known Josh. The two of us had been exposed to boys before, so we had built up antibodies. We were, in a word, immune.”

— Ally Carter

286. “There were a million lies Kat could have told, but none more powerful than the truth. “This is our only idea.”

— Ally Carter

287. “The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley’s halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn’t an ordinary kid, after all. Katarina Bishop followed no one.”

— Ally Carter

288. “If we hadn’t hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn’t.”

— Ally Carter

289. “Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. – Uncle Eddie.”

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290. “I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man’s astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, ’you?”

— Ally Carter

291. “Get goode ladies, or get dead.”

— Ally Carter

292. “If he’d looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.”

— Ally Carter

293. “You were the only one who looked at me and didn’t see her.”

— Ally Carter

294. “Lies aren’t just the things we tell – they’re the lives we lead.”

— Ally Carter

295. “Don’t put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.”

— Ally Carter

296. “I’ve spent enough time studying languages to know that almost any phrase can have two meanings.”

— Ally Carter

297. “You say kidnap. We say hold in a secure facility until it’s safe to turn you over to the proper authorities,” Bex replied with a grin. “But to each his own.”

— Ally Carter

298. “In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale’s eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, “Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.”

— Ally Carter

299. “Dads sometimes look at daughters like they’re more precious than all the diamonds in England. I remembered that – once upon a time – someone had looked like that at me.”

— Ally Carter

300. “They did not, however, bring the necessary equipment for killing spiders.”

— Ally Carter