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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.
Ally Carter
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Ally Carter
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Sarah Leigh Fogleman
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When Hale's hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn't exactly sure what he'd find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except... Is that an earbud? she whispered. He smiled. Are you on comms? Shhh, he told her softly.
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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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...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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...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).
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I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted
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You get some sleep, Abigail, Townsend told her. I'll keep watch. That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane... Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.
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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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She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say, So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next time you decide to take a stroll.
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Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.
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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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Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?' 'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.
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Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided
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If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident (Hale)
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Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie
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That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.
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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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You don't have to do this, Kat. I've been hearing that a lot lately. He's right. I didn't say who had said it, she countered. You didn't have to. He looked out at the water. You two are good together. We're not together, Kat said automatically. Sure you are. You just don't know it yet.
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