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.

I’m sorry if I’m not flirting with you. I’m kind of spoken for.

Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.

Pretend and it will be true.

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

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.