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I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.
Ally Carter
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Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.
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Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto the veranda. As Hale closed the door behind him, Kat heard Angus say, "Ooh, Mom and Dad are going to fight now.
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If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.
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Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.
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Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well." -Uncle Charles
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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.)
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Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing.
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Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.
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You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey
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I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.
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A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.
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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.
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Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.
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'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?
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Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.
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Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.
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No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.
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I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.
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Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.
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Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them.
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She pulled away and looked at him. 'I kissed you and you left.' When Kat heard the pounding, she thought it was the beating of her heart. It was too loud, she thought. Hale was going to hear it; he was going to see it; and he was going to know how much power he had to hurt her.
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We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.
Ally Carter
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Did you hear that? I'm special.
Ally Carter
