Cold Spectrum Quotes

“I’m the woman who makes the monsters go away.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“It’s true. We get these hormonal urges to tear down corrupt corporations and send entitled billionaire assholes to prison.” I shrugged. “Women, right?”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“The Catskills,”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“He’ll be dead by dawn if we do our jobs properly,” April told him. “The real story here isn’t us, and it isn’t even him. It’s RedEye. And even that, one month from today, will barely be more than a poorly annotated Wikipedia entry. A year from now it’ll be a five-hundred-dollar question on Jeopardy! There’s no need for elaborate cover-ups when the public has the collective memory of a goldfish.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“Kevin, you’re my favorite geek.” He tipped an imaginary fedora. “M’lady.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“A facility housing a totally illegal program, run by a company that doesn’t exist and is paid for by siphoned taxpayer money. What’s the NSA going to do about it? It’s like ripping off a drug dealer: they can’t exactly go to the cops and complain.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“Giannetti’s eyes glittered like he’d opened a pirate’s treasure chest. Before, he’d been appraising our bedroom potential. Now we were commodities.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“Still counts as a lair,” she said. “It’s not the quality of the real estate—it’s the monster inside.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“I gazed at the glowing lines on the screen. A labyrinth of streets in neon green. I had dreams about labyrinths, sometimes. Running, turning corner after corner, hearing the Minotaur’s hooves pound as he closed in on me. This time, I was the Minotaur.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“Cold Spectrum, Vigilant Lock, every incarnation of the program, no matter what name they slap on it . . . it was created and sponsored by the infernal courts. There is no human resistance. There never was. You aren’t fighting the powers of hell, Harmony. You work for them.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“An intriguing conundrum,” April mused. “How would we . . . escape from us? We appear to have become the villains of this story.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“You know, usually it’s Kevin who makes my brain hurt. Also, I’ve been known to smack Kevin up the back side of the head every once in a while. You should contemplate these facts and how they may be connected.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“If there’s one thing we can trust, it’s the human tendency to take the path of least effort.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“There’s no need for elaborate cover-ups when the public has the collective memory of a goldfish.”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum

“We’ll put in at a private airport—the owner goes deaf and blind if you kick him twenty bucks—and head for this place in the French Quarter. Restaurant with a sideline in moving contraband. They know me there. More important, they won’t sell me out. Then we can plan our next move, which I imagine is gonna involve a lot of guns.” “Tell me you’re single,” Jessie said. “Sorry, wrong team.” “It’s true what they say,” Jessie sighed. “All the good ones are straight or married.” Aselia jerked her thumb over her shoulder. “I figured you were with her.” “Harmony? Oh, no, she’s straight, too.” Aselia paused. She turned in her seat, looking me up and down, taking in my suit and tie. “Dressed like that,” she said. Jessie nodded, wide-eyed. “I know, right?”
― Craig Schaefer, Cold Spectrum