The Bagshaws aren’t boys. They’re bombs with very colorful fuses.
I’ll be here when you get back.
She didn’t protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.
There are aspectsof this life – of this world – from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.
Now I know that, from this point on, we’ll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.
That’s good; don’t deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.
I don’t want tea, I want justice!
The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she’s maybe a little bit insane.
Aren’t you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?
And I remember “normal” might never be the same again.
I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man’s astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, ’you?
Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.
Hello, Gallagher Girl – Zack.
Where’s the fun in that?
It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.
Hamish smiled and rubbed his hands together. “Sure we can. What do you say? Pigs in a Blanket?” He leaned over the cool counter and raised his eyebrows at Gabrielle. “The only way I’ll get under a blanket with you is if both of us are on fire,” she told him.
There are some secrets we keep because we can’t bear to let them out and some because it’s better to keep them in.
We don’t have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can go anywhere.
It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.