#lyky

[chaoticbug]

I'm rereading gallagher girls and can I just say I'd Tell You I'd Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You is so funny if you think about it from Josh's perspective.

Like you're just vibing at a fair and then all the sudden you see a girl reaching her hand into a trashcan to grab a soda bottle, you make eye contact and the first thing she says is "I have a cat." You have a silly little conversation about her cat who loves bottles, and learn she is homeschooled for religious reasons and then you leave thinking she's cute.

Then you run into her a few more times including at outside your neighbors surprise party, that she claims she was going to but then never enters. You ask this girl how to keep in touch because you like her, and she says no phone or email, leave notes in this wall instead???? You try to figure out what church this "homeschooled for religious reasons and doesn't have a phone" girl goes to and you have no idea.

You start dating her-still messaging through the wall- she never lets you take her home, she gets really confused when you give her a present on her birthday, almost like she forgot it was her birthday?

Then your friend claims that your girlfriend isn't actually homeschooled, she actually goes to the super exclusive boarding school for rich girls in your home town. When you catch her outside the school, she breaks up with you, claiming she was bored and that's why she dated you and then she IMMEDIATELY GETS KIDNAPPED.

So you do what any normal person would do, you call the cops. you try and rescue her and she's mad about it??? Claims it was a school thing??? And now she's fighting people off and ziplinning away while saying she never had a cat???

So your next rational move is to steal a forklift and drive it through the wall to save your girlfriend from whatever craziness she's involved in.

Then you're taken back to the boarding school, learn its actually a school for spies, your girlfriend is a spy and has lied to you about every single detail about herself, even down to her birthday and her dad being dead. Literally nothing you know about this girl except for her first name is true, and you've been dating for months.

And then her mom gives you special tea that makes you forget everything since she dumped you and you immediately start dating your girl best friend.

Like this poor man lmao

[blackchessknight]

I was rereading LYKY and in chapter 9 Cammie says she didn't want there to be a file with Josh's name on it in Langley. To which I laughed and said out: "Oh Cammie, what am I reading?". Because the books are mission reports.

And it hit me, that I'm reading the report. Meaning I have clearance. We're Gallagher Girls! We are spies. Because we have access to these reports! How cool is that?

[gildengirl]

“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool. I go to a school for spies.”

- Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

[averagejoesolomon]

You know, there was a period of time when I didn't like rereading LYKY, but Joe Solomon is honestly so funny, I don't know how I ever skipped over this one.

[incorrectgallaghergirlsquotes]

Alright, I finished rereading LYKY. Here are some of my thoughts:

Cammie mentions Buckingham has a cat that is at the school with them. The cats name is Onyx. For some reason when Cam makes up a pet cat later she makes up an entirely different cat even though using this one would be way less of a lie

Cammie really goes in on how late Joe is for him to only be five minutes late. Like I get it, they’re spies, but I feel like that was girl Cammie reacting not spy Cammie lol

They straight up take the aforementioned cat and rub it all over Cammie before her first date

Cammie is such a dork. All of the girls are so dorky. It’s very 15 of them and I love that

The PAIN of her blowing off her mom to go on that date with Josh when you know it’s her dads birthday and Rachel is putting on a brave face but is gonna be so sad later is just… *inhales**screams*

Cammie not telling Josh how her dad was dead (or missing as far as we knew at the time) so she didn’t have to be the girl without a father for a little while has the same energy as Zach not telling Cammie about his mom because he wanted someone who didn’t see Catherine when they looked at him. I just- the PARALLELS. They’re the same your honor. I can’t wait to see my boy in the next one

Also as someone who loves found family Cammie did not lie about having sisters Josh. She does.

[bishopsbelova]

So I just realized something. 

LYKY starts off 

“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear.”

And Spies that Bind

“Gillian Gallagher supposed that most girls feel invisible sometimes. Like they just disappeared.”

I see what you did there Ally. I see you 

[kingcardan-archive]

get good, ladies. or get dead. 

- joe solomon, i’d tell you i love you but then i’d have to kill you

[gildengirl]

I think one of the most hilarious moments in LYKY (there's honestly so many) is when Cammie's getting ready for her date with Josh and because she told him that she has a cat, they take Professor Buckingham's cat, Onyx, and proceed to rub the cat on Cammie's clothes so she has some cat hair on her. Because in their minds, Josh could get suspicious of Cammie if she didn't have any physical evidence of having a cat and would immediately know she was lying.

They're all so unhinged, I could not love them more.