Peggy > Peggy's Quotes

“Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don’t want to remember.” - Rachel Morgan”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Eventually, we all end up alone.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“I’m not crazy,” I whispered.
“I know.”
Believe it or not, that’s the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother" he smiled a litte sadly. "well. . . When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her."
"Do me a favor" Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. "Next time don't just try”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Is Joe your father, Zach?'

I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to.

'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Covert Operations Report
At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.)

The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.)”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.”

“No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little.

Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch."

"That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..."

Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time