β
She is my mate. And my spy,' I said too quietly. 'And she is the High Lady of the Night Court.'
'What?' Mor whsipered.
I caressed a mental finger down that bond now hidden deep, deep within us, and said, 'If they had removed her other glove, they would have seen a second tatoo on her right arm. The twin to the other. Inked last night, when we crept out, found a priestess, and I swore her in as my High Lady.' (...) 'Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court.' My equal in every way; she would wear my crown, sit on a throne beside mine. Never sidelined, never designated to breeding and parties and child rearing. My queen.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.
β
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Philip K. Dick
β
Friends donβt spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
β
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Stephen King (Hearts in Atlantis)
β
Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.
β
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!
β
β
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
β
She felt slightly guilty for eavesdropping on Kaz, but he was the one who had turned her into a spy. You couldnβt train a falcon, then expect it not to hunt.
β
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Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1))
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Magic
Sandraβs seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once,
Charlie found some goblins gold.
Donald heard a mermaid sing,
Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.
β
β
Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends)
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
...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).
β
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Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
What is a Gallagher Girl?
She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.
β
β
Ally Carter (United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6))
β
And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.
β
β
Ally Carter (Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls, #3))
β
I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's meβCammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.
I go to a school for spies.
β
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Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1))
β
You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.'
He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.'
'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.'
'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.'
'Well, now I feel much better.'
'You should.
β
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Ally Carter (Out of Sight, Out of Time (Gallagher Girls, #5))
β
You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?"
"Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns."
"No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're...good.
β
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Iβm really starting to like all this spy work,β Vee said. βWhen my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.
β
β
Becca Fitzpatrick (Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2))
β
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
β
β
Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy)
β
Did you hear that? I'm special.
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Why are you constantly escorting me places?β I say. βIsnβt there a depraved activity youβre supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?
β
β
Veronica Roth (Insurgent (Divergent, #2))
β
I spy with my little eye a great story.
β
β
John Green (Paper Towns)
β
you're the gallagher girl. figure it out."- zach
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Women have always been spies.
β
β
Harriet Rubin (Princessa)
β
A Gallagher Girl's real grades donβt come in pass or failβthey're measured in life or death.
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Step 4: Cough and gag.
Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore.
Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner.
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Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud.
Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats."
Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion.
β
β
Michael Scott (The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1))
β
Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know
β
β
Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?
--Z
P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind.
Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
β
β
John Le CarrΓ© (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
β
I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).
β
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Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1))
β
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
β
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AnaΓ―s Nin (A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4))
β
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.
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
I always finish what i start
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
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.
β
β
Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex
β
β
Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Insane means fewer cameras!
β
β
Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weatherβs been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damutβs boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.
β
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K. Ritz (Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master)
β
You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?
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β
Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army--the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.
β
β
Alyxandra Harvey (Haunting Violet (Haunting Violet, #1))
β
Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.
β
β
Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
She tried to imagine her former self. Enemy. Prisoner. Friend? Daughter. Spy. Prisoner again. βWhat am I now?β
Sarsine held both of Kestrelβs hands. βWhat ever you want to be.
β
β
Marie Rutkoski (The Winner's Kiss (The Winner's Trilogy, #3))
β
Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day I die. It's who I am... The thing is I don't think you realise is... it's who you are too.
β
β
Ally Carter (United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6))
β
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.
β
β
Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Oh, come on, Sophie. Don't you get it? He's L'Occhio di Dio's ultimate weapon. They used him as a spy at Hecate for years, so what makes you think that's stopped now? This is probably just his new assignment, getting close to you so he can use you for information about the Council."
"Actually, I was just going to use her for her body, but that's a good idea, too.
β
β
Rachel Hawkins (Demonglass (Hex Hall, #2))
β
You should have had the decency to die when you needed to."
βSorry,β I admitted. βIβve been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear itβs almost over.
β
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Ally Carter (United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6))
β
Ooh, the silent treatment.
β
β
Ally Carter
β
Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"Alive.
β
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Ally Carter (United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6))
β
I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potterβs son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter β
β
β
J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
β
Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.
β
β
Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
If quick, I survive.
If not quick, I am lost.
This is "death.
β
β
Sun Tzu
β
Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.
β
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Louise Fitzhugh (Harriet the Spy)
β
How Not to Break Into Sublevel Two
(A list by Cameron Morgan, with help from Macey McHenry)
....
-Teleportation: Sure, Liz says she has an excellent working theory, but she doesn't have a prototype yet. And without a prototype it's pretty much a moot point.
-That thing Bex's parents did in Dubai with liquid nitrogen, an earthquake simulator, and a ferret: Because we don't have a ferret.
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Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
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.
β
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Ally Carter (United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6))
β
Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
β
β
Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.
β
β
Emily Dickinson (Selected Poems)
β
Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
β
β
John Le CarrΓ© (A Perfect Spy)
β
It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.
β
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Ally Carter (United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6))
β
If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.
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Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note
to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile formβlike maybe a
watch or necklace.)
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?β
βI have spies everywhere.β
I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate.
βShe had tea with Mahonβs wife.β Andrea said.
Aunt B looked at her. βYou and I need to work on your air of mystery.
β
β
Ilona Andrews (Magic Rises (Kate Daniels, #6))
β
Oooh," Bex said throwing an arm around my shoulders. "I want one."
Cammie: "They're not puppies.
β
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift.
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
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.
β
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Ally Carter (United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6))
β
Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. βTwenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this cityβ¦ if that.
β
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K.G.E. Konkel (Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin β¦ The last great secret of World War Two)
β
Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked.
Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian."
"Why do you come?" my mother asked.
"To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets."
"To what end do you work?"
"To the cause of justice and light."
"How long will you strive?"
"For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.
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Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1))
β
There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
β
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John Le CarrΓ© (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
β
And there's a cop over there."
"What?" the boy said, glancing at the D.C. police officer that stood at the corner of the street, "You think that guy can do a better job protecting you than I can?"
Actually, I thought Liz could have done a better job "protecting" me than he could, but instead I said, "No, I think if you don't leave me alone, I can scream and that cop will arrest you."
Somehow the boy seemed to know it was a joke...
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
She adjusted her body weight and caught his eyes, her gaze shiny and with a tinge of sadness. βMy grandmother told me once that the world is filled with ghosts. The longer we live the more ghosts will haunt us.β She paused glancing at her palms. βBut theyβre here to remind us we are alive. That our hearts beat, blood runs through our veins, we breath air into our lungs.
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Simon W. Clark (The Russian Ink (Jake Armitage Thriller Book #1))
β
In the end, the courage of women can't be stamped out. And stories - the big ones, the true ones - can be caught but never killed.
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Ronan Farrow (Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators)
β
What are they after?β Kat asked.
βHard to say,β Hale said; again, he eyed the room.
βWho is that?β Macey asked.
βThe reason I wasnβt flirting with you,β Hale told her.
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Ally Carter (Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story (Gallagher Girls, #5.5; Heist Society, #2.5))
β
[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.
β
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Louise Fitzhugh (Harriet the Spy)
β
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 to defend our honor. We stood silently, waiting for our headmistress to say, 'Oh, we are quite used to being underestimated, Agent Townsend. In fact, we welcome it.
β
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Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief.
Or maybe crying is like everything else we doβit's best if you don't get caught.
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
β
It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you canβt really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.
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Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy)
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At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.
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AnaΓ―s Nin (A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4))
β
A specter is haunting Europeβthe specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact.
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.
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Karl Marx (The Communist Manifesto)
β
The elevator doors opened, and Ranger stepped out and spied Tank stretched out on the carpet.
"Fainted," I said.
Ranger walked to Tank and stood hands on hips, staring down at him. "Tank doesn't faint. I've been in firefights with him. He's a rock."
"Well, the rock fainted.
β
β
Janet Evanovich (Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum, #14))
β
I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory."
Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?"
No sir!"
Then wonderful, welcome back!
β
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Johnny Depp
β
You're late." Kat said as soon as Hale put the phone to his ear. She wasn't the kind of girl to wait for hello.
"What can I say? Macey McHenry has been throwing herself at me..."
"See, that's the kind of thing that would make me jealous if she weren't way out of your league."
"You know, if I had feelings, that might have hurt them.
β
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Ally Carter (Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story (Gallagher Girls, #5.5; Heist Society, #2.5))
β
Why is it always a prince?β asked Winter. βWhy isnβt she ever saved by a top-secret spy? Or a soldier? Or aΒ β¦ a poor farm boy, even?β
βI donβt know. Thatβs just how the story was written.β Evret brushed back a curl of Winterβs hair. βIf you donβt like it, weβll make up a different story tomorrow night. You can have whoever you want rescue the princess.β
βLike a doctor?β
βA doctor? Wellβsure. Why not?β
βJacin said he wants to grow up to be a doctor.β
βAh. Well, thatβs a very good job, one that saves more than just princesses.β
βMaybe the princess can save herself.β
βThat sounds like a pretty good story too.
β
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Marissa Meyer (Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5))
β
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 it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know.
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Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
β
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century)
β
What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanatΒical killers?β
βA personβs senses are more acute when being hunted,β Reid said. βMore adept at avoiding capture.β
These guys are good, Blake thought as a bead of sweat trickled down the small of his back. What have I gotten myself into?
β
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Chad Boudreaux (Scavenger Hunt)
β
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon.
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William Shakespeare (The Tragedy Of King Lear (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Signet Classic Shakespeare))
β
She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a little as she told him, "You are so like your father."
Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend stood by the door with his arms crossed.
"What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you."
And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.
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Ally Carter (United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6))
β
Jakeβs shirt and jeans gave off a business vibe with the hint of a wide range of corporate occupations from sales to IT. Only politicians and real estate agents wore a suit and tie these days. Dressed to push an agenda. A man wearing a two-piece suit and tie would be remembered and many people became guarded, sus of the wearerβs intention. Guarded meant memorable.
Blend into the environment; do not stick out.
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Simon W. Clark (Dead Mercenary's Trail (Jake Armitage Thriller Book #2))
β
The center snaps the ball to the quarterback!"
"No he doesn't!"
"He doesn't?"
"NO! Secretly, he's the quarterback for the other team! He keeps the ball!"
"A traitor!"
"Calvin breaks for the goal."
"Wheeee! He's at the 30... the 20... the 10! Nobody can catch him!"
"Nobody wants to! Your running toward your own goal!"
"Huh?!"
"When I learned that you were a spy, I switched goals. This is your goal and mine's hidden!"
"Hidden?!"
"You'll never find it in a million years!"
"I don't need to find it as a traitor to your team, crossing my goal counts as crossing your goal!"
"Ah, so you might think so..."
"In fact, I know so!"
"But the place I hid my goal is right on top of your goal, so the points will go to me!"
"But the fact is, I'm really a double agent! I'm on your team after all, which means you'll lose points if I cross your goal! Ha ha!"
"But I'm a traitor too, so I'm really on your team! I want you to cross my goal! The points will go to your team, which is really my team!"
"That would be true... if I were a football player!"
"You mean...?"
"I'm actually a badminton player disguised as a double-agent football player!!"
"And I'm actually a volleyball-croquet-polo player!"
"Sooner or later, all our games turn into CalvinBall."
"No cheating!
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What the American people didnβt know was how aggressive the government was in protecting our defenses and creating weapons. FDR had already secretly approved the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. And the government saw the waterfront as vital to our defenses. They feared that spies or other saboteurs would infiltrate the docks and interrupt the shipments of supplies or somehow obtain vital information about Americaβs secrets. They made a deal with the Mafia, specifically gangster Charles βLuckyβ Luciano.
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An overhead light blinked and extinguished.
Armitage drew the pistol with his right hand. He swung and aimed, checking there were no innocent people obstructing the way. None. Fired a single shot. It sailed over a plant and table setting. The round hit an inch from the watcher's heart. On impact the brown-haired assailant tipped. Jake ducked. A table toppled. The watcher groaned as the force of the momentum pushed him toward the floor-to-ceiling glass wall.
A second table collapsed, plates thrown asunder. Jake stepped forward, arm stretched and gun straight. A waitress hugged herself, crying. Two more male patrons hit the floor and crawled between chairs.
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Simon W. Clark (The Russian Ink (Jake Armitage Thriller Book #1))
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Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn't know about Zachary Goode. Like how soap and shampoo could smell so much better on him than anyone else. Like where he went when he wasn't mysteriously showing up at random (and frequently dangerous) points in my life. And, most of all, I didn't know how, when he mentioned the jacket, he made me think about the sweet, romantic part of the night last November when he'd given it to me, and not the terrible, bloody, international-terrorists-are-trying-to-kidnap-me part that came right after
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Ally Carter (Only the Good Spy Young (Gallagher Girls, #4))
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Lyon knew she wasn't aware she was being watched, either. She wouldn't have eaten the leaf otherwise, or reached for another.
βSir, which one is Princess Christina?β Andrew asked Lyon, just as Rhone started in choking on his laughter. Rhone has obviously been watching Christina, too.
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βThe blond-headed one,β Lyon muttered, shaking his head. He watched in growing disbelief as Christina daintily popped another leaf into her mouth.
βWhich blond-headed one?β Andrew persisted.
βThe one eating the shrubs.
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Julie Garwood (The Lion's Lady (Crown's Spies, #1))
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And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.
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John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)
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The Audi tires squealed as the vehicle tracked the same path. Jake hammered down the avenue, hunting for a getaway. Traffic thickened at the juncture ahead. A green light flickered into amber. He ramped up over the limit, punching over the white lines on a red signal.
Tires screeched and a horn beeped. The needle sat on one hundred kilometers per hour. He fishtailed at a laneway. The GPS showed a right angle, car slid into a slot in an overhang. Jake got out and crept toward the opening, hugged the brick wall. He pulled the SIG and flicked off the safety.
The Audi braked at the mouth. Door slammed. A shadow fell over the concrete. The swish of clothing indicated a possible weapon draw.
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Simon W. Clark
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In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?
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Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business)