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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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There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
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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.
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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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Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.
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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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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.
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Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.
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That's good don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.
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I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet.- Hale
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Might have a couple of kinks to work through, Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
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Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.
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For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?
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Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
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I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.
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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.
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You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy.
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It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.
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We're seniors. I know, I said So aren't you... curious? About what? About life. Out there. Life! she said again. Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up? We'd reached another door, and I stopped and looked up at the camera that monitored the entrance, just as I whispered, Alive.
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Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught. The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.
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