Top 350 Ally Carter Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Grant didn’t look like a sophomore – Grant looked like Brad Pitt’s body double.”

— Ally Carter

302. “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

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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

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

— Ally Carter

309. “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

310. “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

311. “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

312. “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

313. “Somebody knows.”

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

315. “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

316. “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

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

321. “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

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

324. “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

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

— Ally Carter

326. “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

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

— Ally Carter

328. “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

329. “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

330. “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

331. “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

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

335. “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

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

— Ally Carter

337. “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

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

— Ally Carter

339. “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

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

— Ally Carter

341. “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

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

— Ally Carter

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

— Ally Carter

344. “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

345. “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

346. “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

347. “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

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

— Ally Carter

349. “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

350. “The embassy is not haunted. But I am.”

— Ally Carter