Ally Carter quotes

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. (Ally Carter)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The older I got, the smarter my teachers became. View quote
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It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. View quote
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Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it. View quote
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Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth. View quote
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And yet, she knew she could be. View quote
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Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves. (Ally Carter)
...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). View quote
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It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward. View quote
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It's the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed. View quote
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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ooh, the silent treatment. View quote
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Pretend and it will be true. View quote
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Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie. View quote
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There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in. View quote
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Did you hear that? I'm special. (Ally Carter)
Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home. View quote
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Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace. View quote
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You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket? View quote
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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. View quote
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