Ally Carter
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.Collection: Teen
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.Collection: Dreams
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
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.
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.Collection: Inspirational
I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.Collection: Hate
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.Collection: Building
Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t careCollection: Acting
The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.Collection: Teacher
What are you looking at? Hale asked. Why are you smiling? I worry when you smile.Collection: Worry
Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.Collection: Memories
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.Collection: Truth
So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.Collection: Feet
Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.Collection: Mean
Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.Collection: Eye
Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.Collection: Liars
Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.Collection: World
Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.Collection: Mother
It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.Collection: Epic
...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).Collection: Doe
It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.Collection: People
Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.Collection: Lying
Pretend and it will be true.Collection: Being True
Ooh, the silent treatment.Collection: Silent Treatment
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.Collection: Stars
I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother" he smiled a litte sadly. "well. . . When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her." "Do me a favor" Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. "Next time don't just tryCollection: Mother
You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?Collection: Looks
Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.Collection: Art
The Bagshaws? They didn't know she was a nun!Collection: Nun
He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.Collection: Hate
Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle EddieCollection: Wise
That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.Collection: Liars
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.Collection: Eyebrows
It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.Collection: Uncles
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 lieCollection: Lying
Hes gone. Hes just gone.Collection: Gone
Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.Collection: Military
I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.Collection: Looks
Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.Collection: Believe
Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.Collection: Hurt
''Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.Collection: Girl
Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.Collection: Team
Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.Collection: Wicked
How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar. "Just about..." Simon started slowly. And then he stopped. "Wow." "What?" she asked, panic in her voice. "Nothing," he said too quickly. "What?" she asked again. "Well...it's just that...your boobs look even bigger on TV." Kat took that opportunity to turn and glare at the nearest security camera. In his bathroom stall thirty feet away, Simon nearly fell off the toilet.Collection: Opportunity
...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.Collection: Fate
Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.Collection: Teamwork
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.Collection: Spy
i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pepCollection: Giving
Angus looked at Hamish. "I hate it when Mom and Dad fight." Hamish smoothed his brother's messy hair. "Me too.Collection: Mom