Top 380 Ally Carter Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

352. “Maybe this means she believes me. Maybe she trusts me. Or maybe she Lila is just smart enough to know that, given enough rope, eventually, I am bound to hang myself.”

— Ally Carter

353. “Logan watched her speak. Her voice was the same, but her mouth was different. Why had Logan never noticed her mouth before? Her bottom lip was fuller, but the top lip was shaped like a little bow, and he couldn’t decide which lip he liked more. He knew he was going to have to do a lot more looking in order to choose. And it suddenly felt imperative that Logan choose very, very well.”

— Ally Carter

354. “Kat was more prone to simply making sure the very fancy college that Lady Georgette was going to be attending found out that the girl had had “help” with her entrance exams. There.”

— Ally Carter

355. “Of course I believe in ghosts. I just don’t think they’d waste their time haunting an Island where no one ever goes.”

— Ally Carter

356. “I have heard this all before. I have done this all before. I have ignored this all before.”

— Ally Carter

357. “Megan’s voice is harder. She’s challenging authority, and I instantly regret letting her become my friend. It’s maybe the worst thing I could have done to her.”

— Ally Carter

358. “I get it, even if Jamie can’t put it into words. There are some books you can never get rid of, even if you don’t like the ending.”

— Ally Carter

359. “Kiss me, Zach.” I pressed up against him, cold and alone. I didn’t want to fight. I wanted to be warm and safe again, “Kiss me.”

— Ally Carter

360. “We haven’t actually laid eyes on Lila yet, but I can hear her moving around in the room next door, noisy but unseen. Like a very entitled, very tortured poltergeist. I’m half afraid she’ll float through the wall at any minute.”

— Ally Carter

361. “Macey?” Zach asked as if he couldn’t believe his eyes, which was maybe the most flattering thing ever, because no one has ever mistaken me for Macey McHenry. Ever.”

— Ally Carter

362. “You know Macey McHenry. And you love her – there’s someone you love in there. Well” – Kat drew a breath – “you’re not the only one.”

— Ally Carter

363. “I see the gun. I can feel it in my hand.”

— Ally Carter

364. “I’m the solution to a two-hundred-year-old.”

— Ally Carter

365. “A lot of things had changed on that bridge.”

— Ally Carter

366. “Megan is coming down the street, and when she sees me and Lila together, for a split second it looks like she wants to run. Save herself. And I can’t say I blame her.”

— Ally Carter

367. “There are few problems a Gallagher Girl can face that cannot be improved by a job. A task. A target.”

— Ally Carter

368. “Kat stood there looking at the very boys who had stolen the first tooth she had ever lost and tried to ransom it to the tooth fairy; the two young men who had once stolen a Tyrannosaurus rex from the Museum of Natural History – one bone at a time.”

— Ally Carter

369. “Who is that?” Macey asked. “The reason I wasn’t flirting with you,” Hale told her.”

— Ally Carter

370. “I find there is a lack of international intrigue at the moment. – Rosie.”

— Ally Carter

371. “She let out a silent laugh. “How did I really look?” But Ethan grew serious, thinking... remembering... deciding. “I thought you looked like forever.”

— Ally Carter

372. “Will the boy drama in my life ever go away?! Seriously. I’m asking.”

— Ally Carter

373. “What if I’m addicted to knitting and blew all my money on extremely high-end yarns?” “I have savings. And I look amazing in sweaters.”

— Ally Carter

374. “And then he’d almost kissed her. Maybe more. And, oh, how he had wanted more.”

— Ally Carter

375. “Of course, I’m not offended that you’d accuse me of murder. I’m offended you’d think I’d be bad at it.”

— Ally Carter

376. “Ethan didn’t believe in love at first sight, but that didn’t mean he could make himself stop staring.”

— Ally Carter

377. “You were never supposed to do more than he did. You weren’t supposed to be more. You sure as hell weren’t supposed to earn more. I know men like that. I come from a long line of men exactly like that, so believe me when I say he needed you to be less than him, and you were always going to be more.”

— Ally Carter

378. “And for Ethan, a man who had spent his whole life trying to be enough, it should have been terrifying to realize that he was best when he was half of a whole. When the rest of him was her.”

— Ally Carter

379. “If she hid for thirty minutes, then waved at three more people on her way to the elevator, maybe no one would notice if she spent the rest of the party hiding in an empty room, reading her Purse Book and eating her Napkin Cheese.”

— Ally Carter

380. “When I was thirteen, my mom left for wrapping paper and didn’t come back.”

— Ally Carter

381. “His voice sounded like chocolate tastes: dark and rich and like something you’d regret indulging in later.”

— Ally Carter

382. “But Zoe looked like she was in on a joke – like at any moment she was going to say knock, knock and the whole world was going to lean close enough to whisper who’s there?”

— Ally Carter

383. “Eddie had a strict “Do Not Disturb Unless Someone Is Bleeding” policy.”

— Ally Carter

384. “Noah learned how to please everyone.” Lila pierces me with a glare. “I learned there’s no use trying to please anyone.”

— Ally Carter

385. “Sometimes I lie in bed at night, thinking of ways to kill you and make it look like an accident.” His whole face changed. Pity turned to arrogance as his gaze dipped to her lips. And lingered. “So what you’re saying is, you think about me in bed.”

— Ally Carter

386. “Whatever happens, I’m with you. Whatever comes, I’m in.”

— Ally Carter

387. “Wait. You read romance?” “Sweetheart” – Ethan lowered his voice and his eyes – “I absolutely read romance.”

— Ally Carter

388. “For a murder isn’t a murder when there is no death. And a mystery isn’t a mystery when” – she slammed the book shut – “It’s only a test.”

— Ally Carter

389. “You know, some women think I’m chivalrous.” “Some women think the earth is flat.”

— Ally Carter

390. “She hated him because he was handsome and charming and they lived in a world where a man didn’t have to be anything else.”

— Ally Carter

391. “Did you just break an assassin’s nose with a telephone?” Her eyes were wide. “I think so?” He absolutely beamed. “Good girl.”

— Ally Carter

392. “Hi again, Gallagher Girl.”

— Ally Carter

393. “She just wanted this. She just wanted now. She just wanted him.”

— Ally Carter

394. “I know the world hasn’t given you a lot of reasons to believe this, but just so you know, if you were mine, I’d never make you park the car because my shoes are suede. If you were mine, I’d carry you through the storm.”

— Ally Carter

395. “Then she kissed him. Because she could. And he kissed her back because he couldn’t not.”

— Ally Carter

396. “So that’s how she found herself straddling a stranger on top of a floating terrarium while two dozen tourists took photos from below.”

— Ally Carter

397. “He was in his late twenties and had a crisp, British accent that called to mind boarding schools and polo matches and names that were spelled Chumbledown but were pronounced Randolph.”

— Ally Carter

398. “There are some secrets we keep because we can’t bear to let them out and some because it’s better to keep them in.”

— Ally Carter