Top 350 Ally Carter Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “I thought about the ravens, and I spread my wings to fly...”

— Ally Carter

252. “Is it true he killed a Turkish ambassador with a thong?” I wasn’t sure if she was talking about the sandals or the panties, but.”

— Ally Carter

253. “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

254. “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

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

— Ally Carter

256. “And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come – it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

— Ally Carter

257. “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

258. “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

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

— Ally Carter

260. “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

261. “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

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

— Ally Carter

263. “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

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

266. “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

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

— Ally Carter

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

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

— Ally Carter

274. “That wasn’t your mom in you – that was your dad.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

276. “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

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

— Ally Carter

278. “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

279. “Megan wanted to be friends with me? I think back on all the times the two of us were thrust together: companions of last resort. I always thought she resented having to come play with me. And as a result, I hated having to play with her. But maybe we were both wrong. Maybe we were just two proud and stubborn little girls who were just too proud and stubborn.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

281. “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

282. “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

283. “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

284. “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.”

— Ally Carter

285. “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

286. “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

287. “Tell me or I’ll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

290. “Pretend and it will be true.”

— Ally Carter

291. “Grant didn’t look like a sophomore – Grant looked like Brad Pitt’s body double.”

— Ally Carter

292. “As I thought of Boston; as I heard the words “get her” one more time; as I realised that Macey hadn’t been the only Gallagher Girl on the roof that day.”

— Ally Carter

293. “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

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

— Ally Carter

295. “The president used to joke that it was going to impact the national debt just to feed him.”

— Ally Carter

296. “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

297. “Hale looked at Macey, who added, “Seven minutes since shots fired.” “Kat what’s the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?” “Not long enough if they want a clean exit,” she told him. Macey hadn’t heard Kat’s words, but she looked at Hale like she’d read his mind.”

— Ally Carter

298. “I can’t help but stare at his swollen eye and bruised jaw. He looks like the god of war, damaged and scarred, but still standing. I’m not thinking as I reach up and gently run a finger across his battered face.”

— Ally Carter

299. “Macey leveled him with a glare. “My school offers a self-defense class. A good one.”

— Ally Carter

300. “I believe it has an entire staff of seamstresses and tailors. We can have anything altered – anything at all. It’s really no –.”

— Ally Carter