You are my best friend. And sometimes I like to check and make sure my friends aren’t dead.
No! I need to go home,” I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.
I know. I’m sorry.” And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. But I can’t be. That girl is dead.
You say kidnap. We say hold in a secure facility until it’s safe to turn you over to the proper authorities,” Bex replied with a grin. “But to each his own.
My life is a never ending conversation of the things that people do not say.
But I didn’t care. Let people judge you. It never changes the truth.
Once is a stranger; twice is a coincidence; three times is a tail.
I was thirteen when I saw my mother die, when I told my story. When I started “having a hard time,” as my grandfather likes to say. Would they have locked me up if I’d been thirty? If I’d been a boy? It’s a question I do not dare to ask.
Not all people with scars are evil.
I’ve never heard of it. And, I don’t like to brag, but I read a lot. I mean a lot. And most of it is classified. – Megan.
I’ve been back less than two weeks, and already I’ve turned the sweetest girl on Embassy Row into a thief and a conspiracy theorist. Even for me, it is an impressively quick act of corruption.
I don’t care if we lose the company, miss. But I would care a great deal if we lost the boy.
No, you misunderstand, Madame Prime Minister. I’m not just good at staying alive. I’m also really, really good at drugging people. – Grace.
Grant didn’t look like a sophomore – Grant looked like Brad Pitt’s body double.
Some people, after all, don’t care who they yell at as long as they have a reason to keep shouting.
He raised the gun higher, aiming it over my shoulder, and I knew there were no words – no logic – that could change what he was thinking. So I stopped thinking. I stopped waiting. I stopped planning and fearing and hating the man with the gun. I stopped being afraid for me, and I started caring only about my sister.
Oh, can I? Because what I want to do is strangle you. I want to tie you up and throw you over my shoulder and jump out of a moving train. I want to take you to the coldest place in Siberia, to the darkest part of the moon. I want to keep you safe, Gracie. So the question is, why are you so determined to stop me?” – Alexei.
But Logan had to laugh when he realized that he was the maiden in this scenario. And he didn’t care one bit.
A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s not about ignoring fear. It’s about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.
The only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.