Ooh..I want one” – BexThey’re not puppies.” -Cammie

I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn’t take that long for change to happen – it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as...

For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that...

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I’ll be smarter. I’ll be stronger. I’ll be ready.

You know” – Hale’s breath was warm against Kat’s ear in the chilly ballroom- “I don’t know that both of us really have to be here….” The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with...

Kat looked down at her lemonade. ‘Do you think he betrayed the love of his life…because of us?”She used the name Romani, Kat,’ was Gabrielle’s answer. ‘And besides…’ She let the words draw out. Her...

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

We’re going to be okay.”Here’s the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it...

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don’t dare to let out.

You don’t need a search warrant to go through someone’s trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up.

But I wasn’t the girl I’d been when I left, and I knew it.

Congratulations,” I tell her with a slight bow. “I hope you and your power trip will be very happy together. Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for me to go.

You shouldn’t judge someone until you’ve walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when – two months ago – you didn’t think you were going to have one.

What kind of plan B?” Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, “My kind.” Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a...

You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much...

And don’t lie to me.

How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can’t tell me.

You look disappointed to see me, Zach,” Macey teased. “Don’t you like my jacket?

Doyou know what pain is, Cammie? It’s thebody’s physical response to imminent harm.It is the mind’s way of telling us to move ourhand off the stove or let go of the brokenglass.

How sweet is that? I know I’m no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name...

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...

Don’t let two men fall in love with you, girls. It’s not the sort of thing that ends well.”-Uncle Charles

Its Vermeer”Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. “It’s stolen””What can I say?” Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. “I met a very nice man who bet...

I have to smile. He’s such a dork. But I’m starting to realize the one good thing that’s happened: he’s my dork.

You cannot con an honest man.

I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy – that I’d been training for this mission my entire life, and I wasn’t going to...

Hale.” Kat sighed. “The headmaster’s car? Really? That’s not to cliched for you?”What can I say?” He shrugged. “I’m an old-fashioned guy. Besides, it’s a classic for a reason.” He leaned against the window. “It’s...

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Two days after my dad’s funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then–that sometimes a spy doesn’t need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Cammie!” I’ll never forget the tone of Macey’s voice in that moment. “Cam,” she said slowly, moving toward me, “I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what...

I sprung you because I’ve got a message for you””doesn’t your family own a cell phone company?””only a little one

I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn’t that a best friend’s job?

As Buckingham talked, I couldn’t help but remember that there’s a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It’s not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It’s also because our founder was under twenty....

Count me in, Kat.” He squeezed her tighter. “You should always count me in.” – W. W. Hale the Fifth

If you ever put a student at this school in danger again-”Oh, I thought you Gallagher Girls were immune to danger.’Despite the hundred girls the filled the foyer, no one moved or gasped or tried...

I’ll be here when you get back.

There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.Hit.Panic.Flail.Freeze.

Somebody knows.

The obvious,” Noah goes on, a little out of breath, “being that he is probably some super secret assassin or something. And I’m not as tough as I look.””That’s OK,” I tell him. “I’m way...

And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.

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.