Amanda Hope

“What are they after?” Kat asked.
“Hard to say,” Hale said; again, he eyed the room.
“Who is that?” Macey asked.
“The reason I wasn’t flirting with you,” Hale told her.”
― Ally Carter, Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story

“I love you," I say.

I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me.”
― veronica roth

“I’m sorry if I’m not flirting with you. I’m kind of spoken for.”
― Ally Carter, Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story

“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