Top 350 Ally Carter Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I never did anything to you, Grace! I never did anything at all. I’ve been trying to be your friend since we were six years old, but I’m not good enough for you, I guess. I’ve never been good enough for you.”

— Ally Carter

302. “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

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

— Ally Carter

304. “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

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

— Ally Carter

306. “If you boys want to beat each other’s guts out, I’m willing to let you, but I’d rather get Cam someplace safe and find out what she’s doing walking the streets at five in the bloody morning.” She started back down the alley, then stopped and added, “Oh, and Zach, if you’re going to run away from school, leave a note. Even Cam did that.”

— Ally Carter

307. “Get goode ladies, or get dead.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

309. “I felt them all looking at me – waiting for me to say something, do something. It was the way I always looked at my mum or Aunt Abby or Mr Solomon. I felt them waiting for orders. And I realised they weren’t going with me on this quest – they were following me.”

— Ally Carter

310. “Caroline knew what this really is... It is a fourteen-day celebration of a time when people like them killed people like me. – Princess Ann.”

— Ally Carter

311. “The Bagshaws? They didn’t know she was a nun!”

— Ally Carter

312. “It’d be fun, you know. Just once. To wake up Christmas morning with snow on the ground and stockings full of presents that no one had to steal and a house that’s really home.” She reclaimed the teapot and slowly slipped back into the con. “That would be nice. Maybe, someday, we’ll steal that.” On.”

— Ally Carter

313. “Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus’s father took them all to the circus because he needed to “borrow” an elephant.”

— Ally Carter

314. “The odds of bringing her back alive increase by twenty-seven percent if Bex and Macey go. – Liz.”

— Ally Carter

315. “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 that you think that the only things that are left in the world are the bad things. I know what you’re feeling, Cam. – Macey.”

— Ally Carter

316. “But what’s going to haunt me more in the future- memories or regrets? I honestly do not know.”

— Ally Carter

317. “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

318. “And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop.”

— Ally Carter

319. “When I heard the ding of the diner door, I spun to see a mob of teenagers heading our way, and let me tell you, for a girl who’s gone to a private all-girls school since the seventh grade, that’s a pretty scary sight.”

— Ally Carter

320. “The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she’d seen, me wondering what lay ahead.”

— Ally Carter

321. “Somebody knows.”

— Ally Carter

322. “No cell phones?” Macey said as if we’d just told her all students were required to shave their heads and live on bread and water.”

— Ally Carter

323. “We are students of a twelve-year-old ninja. And we have a lot to learn.”

— Ally Carter

324. “But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.”

— Ally Carter

325. “You think you’re cute,” she told him. “You think you’re gorgeous. But I’m the one guy here who knows better.”

— Ally Carter

326. “That is the palace’s facial-recognition program chronicling everyone who entered the gala last night.” Megan leans back and crosses her arms. She knows that we’re impressed. She is impressed. And I have to admit she has every right to be.”

— Ally Carter

327. “You do a great many things for strangers, Katarina. What are you willing to do for your friends?”

— Ally Carter

328. “Joe Solomon is many things, Cammie. But crazy? Crazy is the one that I don’t think I’ll ever believe. – Mr Smith.”

— Ally Carter

329. “Guys are like dogs – they can always tell when you’re needy.”

— Ally Carter

330. “So you did come back. – To Cam.”

— Ally Carter

331. “But that’s a girl’s right – isn’t it? To cry sometimes for no reason? Really, when you think about it, that ought to be in the Constitution. Maybe I’ll break into the National Archives sometime and write that in. Bex.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

333. “There were always a million ways a job could go wrong, but only one way for it to go right.”

— Ally Carter

334. “So I’m not gorgeous?” Macey challenged. “Of course you are.” He started away, turned back at the last minute. “But I’m the guy who figured out that’s not all you are.”

— Ally Carter

335. “That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”

— Ally Carter

336. “Not knowing what the W’s stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are things that can be given but never stolen.”

— Ally Carter

337. “Spies are wise. Spies are strong. But, most of all, spies are patient.”

— Ally Carter

338. “I am my own worst enemy. But if there were to be a second place, it would go to this girl.”

— Ally Carter

339. “I don’t care if we lose the company, miss. But I would care a great deal if we lost the boy.”

— Ally Carter

340. “But why?” Maddie sounded like someone who had been waiting her entire life to ask that question. She looked like someone who would wait a lifetime more for an answer.”

— Ally Carter

341. “I know. I’m sorry.” And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. But I can’t be. That girl is dead.”

— Ally Carter

342. “But even the Gallagher Academy hadn’t figured out a way to help us protect our hearts.”

— Ally Carter

343. “According to my sources,” Megan says, which I’m pretty sure is code for I hacked into the police mainframe, but please don’t tell my mom...”

— Ally Carter

344. “But I wasn’t the girl I’d been when I left, and I knew it.”

— Ally Carter

345. “Thank goodness you’re okay.′ Preston opened his arms and stepped towards me, but Zach lunged between us. ‘That’s close enough,’ he said, and Preston laughed. Yes, actual laughage.”

— Ally Carter

346. “I’m not lying!” he snapped, then took a deep breath. “Last summer, I did go looking for you. And when I couldn’t find you, I went looking for my mom. And that’s not exactly something I’m proud of.” When I shivered again, Zach took off his coat and tried to slip it around my shoulders, but I pushed his arm away. “Don’t,” I said. “Listen to me.” He grabbed my arms, holding me there. “I couldn’t find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.”

— Ally Carter

347. “It’s encrypted,” Bex hissed in frustration. “We risked our bloody necks and we can’t even read it. I tell you, I’m half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.”

— Ally Carter

348. “And no matter how many people surround you, that is still the loneliest place on earth.”

— Ally Carter

349. “Switzerland didn’t exactly work out. Neither did France. Or Norway.” “Three schools?” Hale asked. “Well, technically, five schools – three countries.”

— Ally Carter

350. “I ease out my third-story window and drop onto the brick ledge below, but I’m not even a little bit afraid. I should be, I know. If I were normal. If I had good sense. If I were sane.”

— Ally Carter