Shadowshaper Quotes
"You can't leave a girl behind when there's bad guys on the loose, asshole!"
"I didn’t ask your opinion about my life and I don’t wanna hear it."
"I'm being serious. If this Wick cat can do all this research about Sierra’s grandpa and all his Puerto Rican spirits, I don’t see why I can’t write a book about his people."
"Hipsters are basically yuppies with tighter pants and bigger glasses."
"I swear to God! White kids come out and eat our music up. They crazy about us. Sing along to our lyrics and everything."
"It's like the slick new term for cultural anthropology."
"Everybody think that just ’cause her name’s Trejean and she black, she gotta be Haitian."
"Every tick and tremble was a towering throng haint lying in wait."
"The breathing continued, sickly and uneven, but Sierra couldn’t pinpoint where it came from."
""You guys," Izzy whimpered, "I don’t like this at all."
"Sierra couldn’t hear the breathing any more."
""Oh my God!" Sierra yelled, scrambling madly away from the hideous cold flesh."
"Manny was in an old-fashioned barber’s chair, the one folks said he sat in to brainstorm the next issue of his paper."
"His body looked as lifeless as the chair he was slouched in — an empty vessel."
""We gotta get outta here," Bennie said, her voice shaking."
"Without thinking about it, Sierra reached over and closed his lids."
""I don’t know, but we can’t leave Manny there, you guys. He’s still alive! Even if he’s … whatever he is.""
"It was like being inside the most beautiful car accident in the world with all your best friends and a bunch of total strangers and knowing you couldn’t get hurt."
""I think it’s on their last album," she said slowly. "It sounds kinda …""
""I mean, you don’t know that’s what’s happening," Izzy said."
""No." Sierra’s voice sounded cold and faraway, even to herself."
""We’re going to eslow it down a little for you now," Gordo’s voice boomed out."
""I don’t know," Sierra said as they walked back to the group. "I’m worried."
"She watched the reflection of her body move in the smudged glass."
""Alright, I’m at the library if you need anything.""
""Don’t you dare walk out on me, Sierra María Santiago!""
"The air suddenly felt thick around her. It was a gathering: the ferocious swell of a wave before it breaks."
"The thick tarp wasn’t much, but at least it would give her something to block the chalk-dust phantoms with if they caught her."
"I'm telling you guys," Tee said. "It was about the size of a person. It slid down the far wall and was gone. A dusty cloud of white."
"The spirits swirled faster around them, flitted this way and that through the darkening sky."
"Each of them nodded at her and joined hands."
"She felt like her smile was about to explode off her face."
"I brought you all here today," Sierra said, "to honor the memory of Mama Carmen Siboney Corona, my abuela, may she rest in peace."
"I’m here today," Bennie said, "to honor the memory of Vincent Charles Jackson, my brother. May he rest in peace."
"Today," Robbie said, "I come to honor the life and spirit of Papa Mauricio Acevedo, my mentor and friend."
"To all the hilarious, brave, outrageous, incredible folks on Twitter who’ve been there to challenge me, cheer for me, and keep me on point and laughing during those hours when I felt stuck and didn’t know how to move forward."