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Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

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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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We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.
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to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.
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the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.
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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
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Hale, stop it.” Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. “You are many things, but stupid isn't one of them.” “I'm too close.” “You don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off.” “It makes me a bad thief.” “It makes you a good person.
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I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day I die. It's who I am... The thing is I don't think you realise is... it's who you are too.
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The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.
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Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?
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Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.
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Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.
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Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
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If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one. It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. I might lose my grandmother's company. Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. You won't lose me.
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The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.
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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.
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Gabrielle, Hale? Kat smacked his shoulder. It wasn't bad enough that you got me kicked out of school, but you had to use her to help you? Gabrielle! I can hear you, her cousin sang beside her. Hale looked at Gabrielle and gestured at Kat. She's adorable when she's jealous. Kat kicked his shin.
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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
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rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.
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Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.
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Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.
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