rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.