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It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

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Ally Carter
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Oklahoma
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Sarah Leigh Fogleman
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Now, now, hear me out, Hamish went on. We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer. Or distract him, Angus added. Like the Bulgari job, Hamish said. You mean the job that landed half the DiMarco family in a South African prison? Kat said. Angus shrugged. Nobody said it was perfect.
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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.
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I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man's astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, 'you?
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But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
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Easy there, Zach said when I stumbled into him. Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.
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And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be.
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The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane.
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You get some sleep, Abigail, Townsend told her. I'll keep watch. That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane... Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.
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Time, the greatest thief of all.
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Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.
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I love being a pavement artist seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift.
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You're late. Kat said as soon as Hale put the phone to his ear. She wasn't the kind of girl to wait for hello. What can I say? Macey McHenry has been throwing herself at me... See, that's the kind of thing that would make me jealous if she weren't way out of your league. You know, if I had feelings, that might have hurt them.
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
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real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.
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Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.
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It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
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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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The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all. Katarina Bishop followed no one.
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And yet, she knew she could be.
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If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper. He pointed in Kat's direction.
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