That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi

Yes, of course. But ... how?" Kat felt her crew around her: Hamish's arm hung around Simon's shoulders; Gabrielle's delicate hands draped through the arms of Angus and Nick. Kat's own hand found Hale's, then, fingers interlacing, palms pressing together so tightly that Kat knew nothing could come between them. Nothing. She looked at him. No one. "It's easy," Kat said, "when you don't have to do it alone.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.