Shadow Unit 1 Quotes

“Falkner sometimes thought her heart was a voodoo doll, full of pins. One each for Ben and the girls. One for each member of the team. She felt the new pin slide in and hoped for the best.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“It was hard being the new kid. All these dynamics, all this implied knowledge, and no way in to it unless you picked it up from context, or asked.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 1

“She turned and caught his gaze, the left eye brighter than the right, with the green streaks in it. Funny to think it used to weird her out, and now it was just Chaz.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 1

“After a while, you just got used to Reyes noticing things. He almost never said anything to anyone about what he noticed, and certainly never to anyone whose business it wasn’t.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 1

“There was powdered sugar on the lap of a blue blazer that made him look like an awkward teacher dressed up as an FBI agent.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 1

“It was hard to tell if Frost was annoyed, or rushed, or just stating the obvious: her voice held no emotion.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Open and wound and walk away-but they had to do it. They just didn’t have to feel good about it.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Nothing short of a one-handed pushup will win that guy’s love.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“I don’t have any history here. But at least I don’t have to be the only new face at the party.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“It’s Los Angeles, Worth thought. All significant conversations happen in and around cars.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Like an emergency response crew, the team could go from settled to swift almost before Worth could register the change.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Stressors apply here, just as they do with other serial crimes.” Reyes sounded like a lecturer wth sixty seconds before the end of class. “That could be the weakness that allowed the anomaly a foothold.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“It was as if there were too many words in his throat, and he needed more people to help him to say them.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“The smell of dry-erase marker always made her think of murder and frustration.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“It was easier to laugh when you suspected being alive wouldn’t have improved the victim.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“I could do worse than grow up to be Esther Falkner.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“What happens when the general public looks at any schizophrenic, any shell-shocked homeless vet, any kid with impulse control problems, anyone whose particular variety of strange they don’t get, and sees anomaly? And what happens when we tell them we don’t know what the anomaly is, or how to reverse the effects? And that, given the available knowledge and resources they may not be able to do anything about it except shoot the host down like a rabid dog?”

“I understand that-“

“Good. Now picture it. Then imagine how many ambulance crews, knowing these things, would think twice before they stepped in to help a victim, for fear it might be a monster in disguise.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“You buried things, you sank them in the lake of the past. But they bobbed to the surface.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Coincidence was possible, it just wasn’t likely.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Am almost-smile bumped Falkner’s lips askew.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Falkner’s voice was as perfect a thing as Bradley’s face-resonant, flexible, conveying more than the words themselves.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“The scent made her slow down and breathe deeper.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“As long as we have an office to work out of, we’re self-contained.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Bostwick was small, strong, red-cheeked, snub-nosed, about forty, and not happy.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“She was waiting for others to judge her, and she was expecting to fall short.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“She’d learned distance years ago. One day it might turn into denial. She didn’t think she wanted that.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Lau sat and scowled at the files. She made scowling look glamorous.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“She thought about the complicated and sometimes unpleasant story, and wondered if she wanted to try, to tell it.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“Gammas have an external manifestation, and the host isn’t strong enough to keep the anomaly from doing harm.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1

“In betas, the human is in the driver’s seat, keeping the animal under control. So the host parasite model doesn’t hold there.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 1