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Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

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Ally Carter
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Sarah Leigh Fogleman
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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'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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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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You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes
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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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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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The Bagshaw's blew up an armored truck one,' Gabrielle offered.
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The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.
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Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things.
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I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
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The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
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Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools
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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
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What? He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion. With your first being... Kat prompted. Gelato, Hale said, and turned back to the group.
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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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But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
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Listen to me. He grabbed my arms, holding me there. I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.
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