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.

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....