There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

Ally Carter

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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Ally Carter

girly knowing inspirational

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Ally Carter

remorse building feels

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Ally Carter

hazards truth lying

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

Ally Carter

painful mean

Ooh, the silent treatment.

Ally Carter

silent-treatment treatment silent

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Ally Carter

teachers-day smarter teacher

...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

Ally Carter

fitting ends lying

Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them

Ally Carter

running sometimes people

Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.

Ally Carter

grief mother long

How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.

Ally Carter

eyebrows pockets hands

The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.

Ally Carter

insane eye blue

What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

Ally Carter

voice simple joy

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

Ally Carter

teenage reading writing

...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

Ally Carter

plans easy doe

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Ally Carter

powerful men lying

And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.

Ally Carter

perfect-days dream sleep

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

Ally Carter

outsiders eye sometimes

It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.

Ally Carter

awkward epic

Basement?' Hamish cried, then glanced at his brother. 'You hear this fellow? He thinks we can just go on down to the furnace and start tinkering?' Angus laughed. 'He probably wouldn't care at all if the whole place went boom, he wouldn't.' At this the guard bristled and stood up even straighter. 'Now see here---' 'No, you see, my good man. Out here, see, we've got snow. So in there, I'd bet, you've got heat. And where there's heat there's gas; and where there's gas there's...' Angus trailed off while his brother said, 'boom.

Ally Carter

brother men thinking

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

Ally Carter

spy goes-on feet