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That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.

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Ally Carter
Age: 51
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Sarah Leigh Fogleman
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It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.
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At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
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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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He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).
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His hands are off, Gabrielle pointed out. Posture's wrong, Kat said. He's still ... hot, Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world. I feel so objectified. So ... cheap, Hale told them.
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Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.
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Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?' 'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.
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You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.
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But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost in a dream when he said, So, your dad broke into the patent office. Yep, Kat told him. How many goats am I going to owe him for that? More than you've got, big guy. Way more than you've got.
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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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Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her bag, ripped off a sliver of Evapopaper, and scribbled: 'Can we study tonight? (Tell anyone, and I'll kill you in you sleep!)
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...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.
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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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Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while
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My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, “How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can’t tell me.
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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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Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.
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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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The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.
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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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