Shadow Unit 8 Quotes

“Too many people know this secret for it to stay a secret forever.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“Celentano’s self-conscious sleekness contrasted oddly with the air of professional clutter that followed Beale around like a mantle of office.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“The smile he offered was hesitant and hopeful, not an expression Chaz was used to associating with Reyes-and weary, which was all too common.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“Suicide took commitment. Time could wear that commitment away.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“She lowered the phone from her ear, tight across her chest from the necessity of dealing pleasantly with another human being. Three long breaths eased the tension. She was safe here, surrounded by the dead.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“How does the magician work? She gets you looking over there, where the magic is supposed to be happening, and she does it all right under your nose.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“He made himself soft and open, laid himself bare to the death laid just as bare all around. It was difficult; the instinct was to close yourself, get glossy and hard, and he’d done that in the past. But when you got too hard you chipped, and when you closed yourself too tightly you missed things.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“Hiding from the FBI in the Hoover Building. I’m the Purloined Letter.”

“Let’s hope it’s been a while since Victor read Poe.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“I do murder sleep. Good thing I don’t want to be king.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“It was so like a nightmare that he wondered if he’d actually had it and forgotten it until now. The empty chairs, the silence, and the missing team.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“Worth’s eyes met hers. The communication that passed between them was grounded in solid acquaintanceship and too many life and death situations. Lau wondered if she dared to call it a friendship, too.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“Worth’s mouth did that crumpled paper thing it did when you were right and she hated it.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“She turned close to Worth and Pauley to close the triangle and create a kind of intimacy between them in defiance of the size of the room.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“Todd wondered if she was actually dozing, if simply isolating herself from other primates in close quarters.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“How can you tell the dancer from the dance?”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“What staggered down the plane’s boarding stairs bore little resemblance to the honed professionals who had embarked a few days before.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“She wondered if either of them had been conscious enough of his actions to realize they were covering each others’ flanks-unconsciously, instinctively, when a minute before they’d been at each others’ throats.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“The plane had always been a home for them. Now it vibrated with emptiness and tension.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“How did I wind up with all these people who think they need me? This isn’t me. This isn’t my life.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8

“He had no idea whether or not she’d gotten the answer she was looking for, but his own words echoed in his ears.”
― Emma Bull, Shadow Unit 8