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Quotes About Risk

We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.
~ Allen Steck
To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.
~ Allen Wheelis
Life is full of risks. The trick is to know which ones are worth taking.
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
Trouble finds us, Sean. That doesn't mean we shouldn't go away. Hawaii, maybe. What's the homicide rate in Hawaii? Probably low. It's too pretty a place for people to be violent.
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
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)
~ Ally Carter
I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.
~ Ally Carter
Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.
~ Ally Carter
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
~ Ally Carter
Kat!" Gabrielle hissed. "You're going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. "I know.
~ Ally Carter
You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...." The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered, "I could go make some calls... check on some things..." "Play some blackjack?" "Well, when in Rome..." "Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him. He nodded. "Right.
~ Ally Carter
I'm sure Uncle Eddie won't kill him. He'll probably just maim him a little." "No," Uncle Eddie said. "I won't." "Okay," Gabrielle said. "So he'll maim him a lot . But Hale can take it.
~ Ally Carter
Um…" Simon started slowly "at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the world's best database of international criminals." "That's the idea " Gabrielle said with a nod. "And I feel compelled to remind you that we're international criminals " he finished but Kat was already smiling. "Don't worry Simon. It's not like anyone in there knows it was a bunch of teenagers who robbed the Henley.
~ Ally Carter
Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing
~ Ally Carter
And so that means..." "We have to rob the Henley," Simon said. Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.
~ Ally Carter
If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.
~ Ally Carter
It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone.
~ Ally Carter
Cammie's going to be mad she missed this," Macey said to fill the silence. "Excuse me?" Hale asked. "Nothing." She shook her head. "I just... I have a friend who really likes air vents. And dumbwaiter shafts. And laundry chutes. Of course, the last time I was in a laundry chute, Cammie and I fell about a dozen stories..." "Well, that sounds like fun." "It was either that or get kidnapped by terrorists, so I guess we got of easy.
~ Ally Carter
Now, now, hear me out," Hamish went on. "We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer." "Or distract him," Angus added. "Like the Bulgari job," Hamish said. "You mean the job that landed half the DiMarco family in a South African prison?" Kat said. Angus shrugged. "Nobody said it was perfect.
~ Ally Carter
There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.
~ Ally Carter
Friends help each other when they are...you know...going up international hit men and stuff.
~ Ally Carter
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon
~ Ally Carter
Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.
~ Ally Carter
It's not safe out there," he says, too close to my ear. "Yeah...well..." I look at him. "Maybe it's not safe in here either.
~ Ally Carter
The only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And locked in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.
~ Ally Carter