Shadow Unit 5 Quotes

“Evidence could only speak of what it knew. Evidence never knew everything. Justice ought to be based on more than evidence. Mercy had to be.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“My little brother’s back is always covered. Always.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“A person could enter Las Vegas at one edge and come out in any direction, as himself, as someone else, or nobody. All it took were a few resources.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Reyes was used to considering his words and second-guessing his responses. One of his wives and several of his co-workers considered it evidence of his manipulative streak, and maybe it was. But he generally knew what to expect from people. When he lost his temper, he knew what to expect then, too.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“He’d intended to pursue knowledge, not people. But the knowledge he most wanted was contained somewhere in human bodies. He wished, suddenly, that Solomon Todd was with the team. Todd would appreciate the irony.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Spotting detail and identifying difference was what he was here for. Detail and difference could save the lives of these children-and there was no question that his quarry would want to take another life.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“It’s my destiny to hold a grudge against other people’s fathers.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Uniforms do all the work, investigators get all the credits.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Reyes sat neatly erected in the crappy plastic chair, as if he were doing it a favor. As if he were the Federal Bureau of Investigation the way monarchs were supposed to be their kingdoms.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Brady longed fiercely for Hafidha, for Worth. Chaz didn’t open up to Daniel Brady, no matter how much he might need to.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Chaz’s hands were stuffed in his jacket pockets, as if he was afraid of what they’d do if he let them out.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Brady used looking for traffic as an excuse to make a status check on Chaz.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“His voice sounded a little hollow. Brady pretended not to notice.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“The only way his team could more thoroughly spit in the eye of tradition would be to add an agent in a wheelchair. Maybe J. Edgar Hoover had been dead long enough after all, and taken his cookie-cutter agents with his to the grave.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Surrounded by the illusion of peace, he felt anxiety nibbling at the edge of his awareness.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“People returned to their default state. If you knew what it was, you knew what to expect.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“He didn’t see the look Reyes sent sideways at him. Was it for the comment, Brady wondered, or for the distant way he’d made it? Or neither?”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“A gamma often wants the same thing a non-anomalous criminal wants,” Reyes said. “The difference is method, not motivation.”

“Except when it’s not.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Reyes spread his hands wide over the documents in front of him, as if he could absorb clues out of the ink through his fingertips.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“How many college kids had ever seen a dead body, never mind one like that? He hadn’t even been there, and it made him a little sick.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“If there was a gamma, and they couldn’t find him, there’d be bodies. But that was always true.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“It’s the escalation, isn’t it?” Chaz’s throat was rough; he cleared his throat. “That’s why we’re going, and why we’re in a hurry. Because if there’s a jammer in this, he might be brand new. He could learn more about how it starts.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“His blue eyes looked straight down into hers, and his expression was all stoicism and calm and yet inmistakably sad.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“They sat for a moment in the easy silence that Lau treasured.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5

“Reyes saw The Silence of the Lambs in a theater in…he forgets where, exactly, somewhere out in the Southwest, playing hooky from an internable professional conference. What he’d found most disturbing about it was the way everyone involved, from the scriptwriter to the cameraman, seemed slightly in love with Hannibal Lecter, and he had even amused himself that night by trying to decide, if Lecter was a gamma, what his manifestation would be. Persuasiveness, Reyes had thought and added that to his mental list of anomaloid presentations that he wanted to be particularly wary of. If he could think of it, so could the anomaly.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 5