Elizabeth > Elizabeth's Quotes

“Mr. Red is to Joe Starr as a bone is to Queen Elizabeth”
― Sheila Turnage, The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing

“Leopards don’t change their spots.”
― Sheila Turnage, The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing

“A caged bird warbles sweetest in sunshine.”
― Sheila Turnage, The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing

“The earth is round, the sky is blue,”
― Sheila Turnage, The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing

“All the world’s a stage, sugar, so hop on up there.”
― Sheila Turnage, The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing

“Harry sat there, aware that every head in the Great Hall had turned to look at him. He was stunned. He felt numb. He was surely dreaming. He had not heard correctly.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Complete Collection

“A tranquil circle of grass surrounded it, strangely peaceful in the chaotic bustle of the market.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Hive Queen

“for a truly exceptional school, graduation at the Gallagher Academy is pretty much like graduations everywhere. There are smiling parents and gushing girls, shapeless black gowns and new graduates standing on the verge of a brave new world.”
― Ally Carter, United We Spy

“What is a Gallagher Girl?” Liz asked one final time. “She’s a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: A Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.”
― Ally Carter, United We Spy

“Did you know there’s a place under the stairs in the East Wing that’s full of spiders that died during the Nixon administration? Do you think that’s true? I don’t think that’s true,” she said without really waiting for Charlie to answer. “I could ask Dad,” Maddie went on. “But he didn’t work here then. At least I don’t think he worked here then. I mean, I know he’s old. Like, really, really old. But is he that old?”
― Ally Carter, Not If I Save You First

“Once they notice, they’ll try to reach my dad, who is either back and going crazy or is on his way back and will begin going crazy anytime now.”
― Ally Carter, Not If I Save You First

“There was the ibuprofen in a tiny white bottle. A canteen that was half full and three energy bars. A pack of Band-Aids, two empty plastic bags. A sleeping bag. A poncho. Two pairs of thick, tall socks, and something that looked like a solar phone charger.”
― Ally Carter, Not If I Save You First

“Kat had already passed for a Franciscan nun during a particularly difficult job in Vatican City).”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“She thought about how silly her History of Art teacher had sounded when she’d waxed poetic about seeing the Mona Lisa (when Kat knew for a fact that the Louvre’s original had been replaced with a fake in 1862).”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“Hey,” Hale snapped. “We all agreed that that monkey seemed perfectly well trained at the time.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“Groundhog?” Hale asked. “No time,” Kat replied. “The tunneling alone would take days, and Taccone wouldn’t leave these woods unpatrolled for that long.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“Fallen Angel?” “Maybe,” Kat answered, looking to the sky. “But even on a night with no moon, that inner courtyard is awfully small to risk someone seeing you or your parachute. And no one builds guard towers if they aren’t going to fill them with guards.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“So someone either Trojan Horsed or Avon Ladied”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“But in the suite, all Kat heard was the deep sighs of her companions and their simultaneous exclamation, “Benjamin Franklin.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“Cool.” Hale’s voice was pure awe. “Benjamin Franklin with a side of Loch Ness Monster.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“Uncle Eddie admitted with a shrug, still holding her and beaming. “It’s good to see you, little one.” He scanned her short skirt. “I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“A man walked into the Kremlin and walked out with a Fabergé egg under his top hat. A corrupt German art dealer sold a fake Rembrandt to an Englishman,”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“Kat stood there looking at the very boys who had stolen the first tooth she had ever lost and tried to ransom it to the tooth fairy; the two young men who had once stolen a Tyrannosaurus rex from the Museum of Natural History—one bone at a time.”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“After all, there are worse things than spending the end of February on a private yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean with friends and family”
― Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals

“You do a great many things for strangers, Katarina. What are you willing to do for your friends?”
― Ally Carter, Perfect Scoundrels

“Eddie had a strict “Do Not Disturb Unless Someone Is Bleeding” policy.”
― Ally Carter, Perfect Scoundrels

“Always wipe your mouth before you take a drink,”
― Ally Carter, All Fall Down

“The next day is a blur of dress fittings and dance lessons and trips to various salons with Ms. Chancellor. Some of her instruments of torture are hot. Some are cold. Some are hard and some are soft. All are dangerous, I decide. If the army knew about curling irons, basic training might look very, very different.”
― Ally Carter, All Fall Down

“I’ve spent my whole life tailing after people who think they’re more interesting than me,”
― Ally Carter, All Fall Down

“We are students of a twelve-year-old ninja. And we have a lot to learn.”
― Ally Carter, All Fall Down