Ally Carter Quotes

Theyʹre shooting at us,ʺ I said incredulously. ʺTheyʹre actually shooting at us!

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

Explosions are not comfortable.

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

I am not armed ... Stand out of the way and let the assassin fire.

The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen stormed into our hotel in Cairo. I heard shots coming from the lobby and ran downstairs to check on my dad. By the time I got there, he was just calmly zipping up his workbag while three unconscious gunmen hung by their feet from the chandelier, their robes falling over their heads so you could see their boxer shorts. Dad claimed not to have witnessed anything, and in the end the police blamed a freak chandelier malfunction.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

How do you fall into a lion's den, that is my first question there, you think you would be extra carefull around a den of lions.

Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.

Your dad would stake me out to freeze if I let you fall and hurt yourself." He offered me his arm, which I latched onto gratefully. "He wouldn't stake you out," I panted as we forced our way through the hard top layer of snow that was almost thigh deep. "He'd just shoot you." "Well that's a comfort.

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.