Shadow Unit 6 Quotes

“There are the agents who found Anomalous Crimes Task Force because they came looking for it, because they needed answers: Brady, Todd, Worth. There are the ones who fell into it, and found it a place where they were needed…or who found an obsession that consumed their careers, more or less: himself, Falkner, Lau. And there are the ones he went out seeking; Gates and Villette.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“Reyes reached out to him, but he backed away, because it was getting too hard to hide the trembling. Being in a hospital room with a badly injured agent wasn’t easy. Being in the same room with Stephen Reyes and no work about wasn’t easy either, even now.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“Her command voice made you feel like you could fly and walk through an artillery barrage, if only she asked you to.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“Todd’s voice was dreamy, pulled out of the here and now by the visualization in his head.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“I like to have a list. It strengthens my resolve when the time comes to do something I’m not supposed to do in the service of the things I am supposed to do.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“Torture is a very effective means of getting people to say what you want them to say, whether it’s true or not.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“Reyes was relentlessly, consciously sleek, always perfectly groomed and dressed.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“Some days you just feel sorry for everybody.”

“Maybe those are the days you should just stay home.” Reyes smiled tightly.

“It’s the days you don’t give a damn about anybody you should stay home.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“Lately he rejoiced every time he caused someone to do anything other than frown and look blank.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“Suddenly, she does not want to think about Stephen Reyes, gamma. Not now, and maybe not ever.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“The cold got everyone in the end. Better to go looking for it than live in fear.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 6

“This was the room of a prison who had erased himself, whose personality had been consumed by a purpose.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 6

“Brady’s mouth was dry and painful, but he had to say something.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 6

“Hafidha wanted to fold her arms and stomp like a sixteen-year-old, but that would put her hand too far from her gun.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 6

“He’s found a way to structure his crimes so he doesn’t have to inject himself into the investigation-we came to him.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 6

“He raised his eyebrows at her, betraying his hurt with a little grimace.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 6

“Another man might have cowed the room with a sweeping glance, but Reyes kept his gaze on Hafidha. She still didn’t think he’d missed anything that transpired.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 6

“It had been a conversation that was going somewhere, and maybe she could get it back.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 6

“What they want is for you to buy into their mythologies, not to understand who they really are.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 6