Shadow Unit 4 Quotes

“They were addictive, the bad things you did to your body.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Thing was, it stuck him wrong. Kids did this all the time, and the nasty things kids did had beginnings and middles and ends. Todd was a noted old fogey on the matter of social networking, but he knew about beginnings, and middles, and ends. And the way they were talking, the speed, the hatchet photoshop job…this wasn’t a beginning.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Complacency was the number one cause of death.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“People didn’t, not sincerely, want to know.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Madeline Frost rarely used a fax machine. They were messy and imprecise, smirchy. They eradicated the subtleties of a photograph, or better yet, real flesh.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“I keep thinking normal will be when it seems as if never happened. I need a new normal.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Craft produces change in accordance with will.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“I feel like I just got handed a C in Feminism 101.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Somewhere, in a drawer, she still had her athane.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Once-familiar words evoked vivid memories of sharp incense and the dry whir of cheap paper against her fingertips. Candlelight, laughter, wine sipped from a passed cup. The first girl she’d kissed.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Hafidha grinned at her through braids like a beaded curtain, patting the grip of her glock.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“I’m just full of secrets. Imagine a world in which you knew them all.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“It was a weird word to hear stated plainly amid the angry orange-and-blue Southwestern décor of the taqueria.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“You’re not getting out of this that easily, Danny boy.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“I made a bad mistake twelve years ago. I only recently realized how bad.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Todd had always been grateful he wasn’t pretty enough for broadcast journalism.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Brady, with every reason to be as irritable as a cat in bath water, smiled at the room.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Part of effective leadership was the appearance of calm, the ability to wrap your subordinates in the sense of being needed and safe.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Look, I had a-sort of an insight into one of Reyes’s pet projects.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Maybe he owed the car one, after all.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4

“Even in the watery glare of headlights, the face that appeared under the top edge of the frame when his rescuer ducked down just about made him stammer like a kid. The cop was gorgeous. Thick hair-plastered-wet and indeterminate in color now-dripped down over a classic nose, stuck to cheekbones right out of a cowboy movie poster. Gray’s mouth went dry; his palms squeezed tight on the steering wheel.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 4