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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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They promised me that this would be my home. That girls like you would always be my sisters. But they weren't my sisters, were they? Catherine asked, but then the lunacy broke, a quick and fleeting crack, and through it I saw anger and bitterness and rage.
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That's why we're going to disrupt the lunch, she (Kat) said. You know, Angus said, I've got a little C-four that I've been saving for a rainy-- We're not blowing up my company, Angus, Hale said. Righto. Carry on, Kitty.
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Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.
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Hale, stop it.” Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. “You are many things, but stupid isn't one of them.” “I'm too close.” “You don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off.” “It makes me a bad thief.” “It makes you a good person.
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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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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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He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.
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Hale looked at Macey, who added, Seven minutes since shots fired. Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan? Not long enough if they want a clean exit, she told him. Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.
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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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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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Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
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If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper. He pointed in Kat's direction.
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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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Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
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But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.
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Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.
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She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.
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Good for him, Hale said. And then he stopped. There were four other people in the room, but Hale only looked at Kat, and something in his gaze burned her, froze her, made her want to run.
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I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.
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She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
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