“We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.”

“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.”

“As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.”

“There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.”

“Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.”

“...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas...”

“It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.”