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A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

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Ally Carter
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Oklahoma
United States
Sarah Leigh Fogleman
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Gallagher
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I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different... Variety is the spice of life And from a thousand miles apart Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.
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Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.
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It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
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That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.
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He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.
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You still don't get it, do you, Margaret?' Kat smiled almost sadly. 'We never had to steal the Antony. All we had to do was get it next to the Cleopatra and switch the signs.
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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.
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Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.
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But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.
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You switched the days, I said, dismayed. You blew the tire. You... I trailed off, probably because the next words out of my mouth were either going to be You are enough to do this? or You're destined for a life of crime. It was a toss-up either way.
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and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi
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That's for me to know, and for you to find out.
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If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.
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Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.
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Turn, Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.
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The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.
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I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.
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Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking
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And so that means... We have to rob the Henley, Simon said. Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. Again.
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