Ally Carter Quotes

If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do. It's not something you can write down as anything other than, "Wow, I can't believe I have this and I'm absolutely spoiled and entitled." On the other hand, I have one and I use it.

In an unpleasant world, a car takes you where you want in an enjoyable way.

That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.

If I don't travel, if I stay at home for a week, I would go out of my mind. That is just the way I am. I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.

I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

I like to be able to go out to dinner once in a while. I like to be able to drive my MG up the McKenzie River on a weekday afternoon. I like to be able to pay my bills on time.

I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.

I like being able to, you know, pack up and leave the country and hop on a plane and go wherever I want and stay wherever and bring my friends with me and bring my family on vacation. That's amazing.

Most of my holidays are with wonderfully generous friends with houses in the country or the South of France.

Just to be spontaneous and free is life's biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.

I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'

I'm always ready to go back on the road.

The expat life was a good one: There was my French boyfriend. My bright two-bedroom flat in Islington. My wine at lunch. I had a 'go bag' packed with loose linens and mosquito repellent - I was ready to be flung to the outer edges of the world at a moment's notice. It was all intrigue and adventure.

Probably the biggest thing is the private planes. Wow, that thing's amazing. Got all the food on there, a bunch of drinks. I don't know, It's just amazing, never seen nothing like it. Tables, tables on planes, that's amazing. That was probably the biggest 'whoa' for me, like, 'I made it'. This big private jet, you're like, 'Whoa.'

I never just do nothing. A weekend off? Let's go somewhere. Let's fly somewhere.

I don't just hop in the car. I have destinations. I drive to relax. I'll be gone for two weeks, hit four or five major cities. I don't like being nowhere for more than two or three days. I just go. I don't have a schedule.