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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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Ally Carter
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Sarah Leigh Fogleman
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It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
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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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I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool. I go to a school for spies.
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Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.
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Hello, ladies, Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been really great spy maneuvering except that Josh didn't use Evapopaper. How's the lasagna? Mr. Solomon asked, and I started to say something before I remembered that my mouth was...well...otherwise engaged.
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You switched the days, I said, dismayed. You blew the tire. You... I trailed off, probably because the next words out of my mouth were either going to be You are enough to do this? or You're destined for a life of crime. It was a toss-up either way.
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Tell me Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?... Alive
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She thought she was only seeing him because she wanted to see him... It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing.
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the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.
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There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.
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Wait. Far be it for me to say this — Hamish looked around the compartment — and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being an upstanding citizen I'll kill 'em, but aren't there...laws and stuff? I mean, can't you...you know...sue him or something? asked the boy who had once stolen an entire circus, all three rings.
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Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
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Pretend and it will be true.
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The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.
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Now, now, hear me out, Hamish went on. We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer. Or distract him, Angus added. Like the Bulgari job, Hamish said. You mean the job that landed half the DiMarco family in a South African prison? Kat said. Angus shrugged. Nobody said it was perfect.
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I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief, the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat. Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, I'd like to meet one of those, too.
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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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And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.
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Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking
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The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.
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