And I didn’t choose it, Kat. I chose you.

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.

I don’t want tea, I want justice!

Don’t get it right, get it written.

‘Tell Suzie she’s a lucky cat.’ Have sexier words ever been spoken?

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the...

I can sleep anywhere. Planes. Trains. Sofa. Lawn chairs. Call it the upside to my life as an army brat. Never having a home means, I guess, that everywhere is your home. There is absolutely...

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Friends help each other when they are…you know…going up international hit men and stuff.

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.

…maybe it’s only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just… know

She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn’t know what a terrible thing it is she’s asking for.

Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in...

A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s not about ignoring fear. It’s about facing it, knowing the...

I know. I’m sorry.” And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be...

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn’t mean it won’t be painful.

Either we’re a team or we aren’t. Either you trust me or you don’t.

I’m a man without a country. Or I’m a man with too many countries-you pick. Ultimately, in both global politics and the high school power hierarchy, they amount to the same thing.

Number of empty Ben & Jerry’s containers: 3 — two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…” he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, “Revenge.

Insane means fewer cameras!

I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world — I could have done anything, but I came back.” “You ran away, Katarina.” “And...

She’d absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn’t own and feel no remorse about it.

Kat,” Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.”Funny, I didn’t hear a doorbell.””I let myself in; hope that’s okay.”Hale smiled. “Or the alarm.”She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed....

Ok,” he says. “First lesson.”Noah broadens his stance, taking his place firmly on the embassy side of the threshold. “in the United States,” he says. Then, with both feet, he leaps on to the sidewalk....

Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn’t know about Zachary Goode. Like how soap and shampoo could smell so much better on him than anyone...

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You

Somtimes people run to see if you’ll ever come after them. -Joe

So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?–ZP.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn’t mind.Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see...

And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the...

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability – cause and effect. It’s the physics of human nature, and to truly...

She’d absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn’t own and feel no remorse about it.

…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).

You know you’re smarter than all of them, right?” Hale said flatly.”In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it…”He glanced at the blackjack tables.Simon shook his head. “I don’t count cards, Hale.””Don’t?” Hale smiled. “Or...

Did you see Grace is back with us?”Megan did see me. She saw me jump off a cliff and crawl under an Iranian fence. Megan has seen plenty. And I can’t help but hold my...

I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It’s more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the...

There’s a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn’t just inside our walls-it was inside...

I always finish what i start

So far Kat has been through all the Wa’s she could think of, but Hale hadn’t admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He’d firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him...

Waiting. Like it or not, it’s a skill all spies have to master eventually.

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I’m so sorry I’m not her.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

I mean she’s Cleopatra… shouldn’t she and Antony have known better? They were so different…””Variety is the spice of life””And from a thousand miles apart””Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Do you understand any of this?” he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive screens.”Some people understand the value of an education.”Hale stretched and crossed his legs, the settled his arm...

No! I need to go home,” I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

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.

Okay, gang,” I said, “according to blueprints, there’s an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, but—””I thought we’d just go through the doors,” Liz said,...

Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn’t like it.”The building across the street is under construction,” he snarled as soon as we’d carried our bags inside.”The elevator has...