Ally Carter Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

2. And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you. Heist Society

3. And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you. Heist Society

4. Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

5. Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn't know about Zachary Goode. Like how soap and shampoo could smell so much better on him than anyone else. Like where he went when he wasn't mysteriously showing up at random (and frequently dangerous) points in my life. And, most of all, I didn't know how, when he mentioned the jacket, he made me think about the sweet, romantic part of the night last November when he'd given it to me, and not the terrible, bloody, international-terrorists-are-trying-to-kidnap-me part that came right after Only the Good Spy Young

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

7. Hale." Kat sighed. "The headmaster's car? Really? That's not to cliched for you?"What can I say?" He shrugged. "I'm an old-fashioned guy. Besides, it's a classic for a reason." He leaned against the window. "It's good to see you, Kat."Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you, too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?

8. I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

9. I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy - that I'd been training for this mission my entire life, and I wasn't going to be left on the sidelines. But in the dim space with Zach pressed tightly against me, only one thought came to mind. I kissed him - longer and deeper than I ever had before. The school was not watching us this time. There was nothing playful in the tone. We were just two people kissing as if for the first time, as if it might be the last. And then I broke away. "So," I asked, as if I got kissed like that all the time (which, believe me, I don't), "where is it you're taking me again?" "The tombs.

10. If you ever put a student at this school in danger again-''Oh, I thought you Gallagher Girls were immune to danger.'Despite the hundred girls the filled the foyer, no one moved or gasped or tried to defend our honor. We stood silently, waiting for our headmistress to say, 'Oh, we are quite used to being underestimated, Agent Townsend. In fact, we welcome it. Only the Good Spy Young

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

12. Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

13. Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy. Out of Sight, Out of Time

14. Ooh..I want one" - BexThey're not puppies." -Cammie

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

16. So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried.Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen.Of course, that didn't stop her from trying. Heist Society

17. So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?--ZP.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind.Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry) Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

18. Somebody knows.

19. Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.) I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

20. Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually. Out of Sight, Out of Time

21. We're going to be okay."Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise. United We Spy

22. You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning. Out of Sight, Out of Time

23. You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

24. You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket? Only the Good Spy Young

25. I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two. Only the Good Spy Young

26. There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge. Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

27. Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time. Out of Sight, Out of Time