When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he and Kat had last used in Monte Carlo. Hale smiled a little, realizing he hadn’t worn the tux in ages. It was just one of many ways his life had change in the years since a girl named Katarina Bishop crawled into his window and into his life." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

tonight it taco night" -rachel (cam's mom)

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).

Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he had the best security system in Istanbul." His breath was warm on the back of her neck. "He was mistaken.

Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.

Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing