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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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Ally Carter
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Oklahoma
United States
Sarah Leigh Fogleman
Kids
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Sometimes
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Listen
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Alone
Running
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Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)
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How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my indicators of humbleness list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now).
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It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
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I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother he smiled a litte sadly. well. . . When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her. Do me a favor Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. Next time don't just try
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Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.
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Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.
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Kat looked at Hale. I've never heard Marcus talk this much. Yeah, Hale whispered. I'm trying to decide if I like it. Just then, Marcus took the ruler and struck Eddie in the stomach. Hale men speak from the diaphragm! Hale nodded. I definitely like it.
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How'd you get in here? She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.
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Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.
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Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.
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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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...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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So the quesiton is, Bex said slowly,How far are you willing to go? I looked at my three best friends in the world. How far is there?
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I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.
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Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
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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 didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.
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...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
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Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.
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Hes gone. Hes just gone.
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