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

After finals and winter break...after I'm back to full strength, we'll go get Preston. Whether Mom and Abby and Joe and Townsend like it or not, we'll go get him. And then...' I trailed off. 'And then we'll finish this. Next semester, this thing ends.

If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.

That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

I'll be here when you get back.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident (Hale)