Shadow Unit 7 Quotes

“She drew herself up, braids swinging, nails and rings a-sparkle in the morning sun.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“You took your boding where you could find it”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“Her looks of revelation would have been opaque to anyone who did not already know her.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“There was nothing he liked so much as resourceful women.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“It worried Falkner how much the plane was starting to feel like home.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“She’d always been good at reading other people’s faces; good at hearing the echoes they didn’t hear in their own words. Sometimes her brothers thought it was eerie, that she could tell when they were lying or when one of their girlfriends was about to break up with them. They thought it was like mind reading, but really it was just paying attention.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“Nikki Lau came to profiling because it made her feel alive.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“Many people came to profiling because they were fascinated with darkness.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“The thing about the team-the entire BAU-was that they were all so good at manipulating people that they understood their own reactions immediately. They were artists and their art form was the human personality, pathological or otherwise. You almost never got an unfiltered response.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7

“He caught himself nodding agreement and turned away to hide a grimace that kept trying to turn into a smile.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 7

“The monster Reyes knew held the person you loved hostage as well.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 7

“If he were trying to learn to parent, there weren’t many worse ways to do it than trying to parent a feral, emotionally bereft twenty-six year old.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 7

“He’s the son you never had, and you desperately want him to be okay, and you’re terrified if you let yourself feel any warmth for him you’ll miss the first subtle sign that he’s turned and then we’ll all pay the price. And that is a hell of a burden to put on any relationship, personal or professional.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 7

“When you were full of dangerous knowledge, you learned tactics for protecting people from it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 7

“There’s ways to tell people things without ever actually telling them. Subtext. Misdirection. Indirection. White space in the narrative.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 7

“You don’t get a lot of time to fix mistakes if you make them, and everybody makes them.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 7

“His silence made a space between them that invited Chaz to fill it, and Chaz even knowing what Todd was doing and how he was doing it, still felt the pressure.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Shadow Unit 7

“Wooden girl or not, you made a pretty puppet.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 7