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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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There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.
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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 time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks—not stun guns and bulletproof vests.
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Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.
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to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.
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Like Cammie is fine, Macey said, then glanced at me. No offense. None taken, I said. I think.
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You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her
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Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
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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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You look disappointed to see me, Zach, Macey teased. Don't you like my jacket?
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Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
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You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.
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Lies, Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. We tell them to our friends, he said. We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.
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But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.
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I never knew there were this many stars. I can't see them, he told me. I just see you. That's one of your cheesier lines, I told him. It's the altitude, he told me. I don't have enough oxygen in my brain. I see.
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Might have a couple of kinks to work through, Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.
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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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If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one. It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. I might lose my grandmother's company. Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. You won't lose me.
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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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