Ally Carter

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

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

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.

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.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

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

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

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.

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 Virginia? Must research further.)

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

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

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?)

I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.

...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).