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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.

Ally Carter

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Ally Carter
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
Author
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Oklahoma
United States
Sarah Leigh Fogleman
Running
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Kids
Wild
Sometimes
Adults
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Listen
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Ways
Stop
Alone

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Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.
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When Zach said, Im going to kill Dr. Steve. It wasn't the angered threat of a worried boy it was the calm, cool statement of an operative trained to do exactly that. And that, I think, is why it scared me. But it wasn't as terrifying as the look in Bex's eyes when she said, Not if I find him first.
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Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.
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Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.
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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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The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.
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I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.
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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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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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