Top 15 Emma Newman Quotes

Do you still shout at people when they talk about their faith?
I shake my head. "I grew out of that. Now I mostly let them damn themselves with their own ignorance."

Don’t believe anything on the news feeds. It’s all just a circus for the masses.

I made a mistake when I was young and didn’t know how the world worked and I have paid for it. Many, many times over.

If there’s anything I’ve learned in the years in this job, it’s that whatever you need is in the data. You just have to know which paths through it to follow and how to eliminate the extraneous without losing patterns.

The data is always there. It’s just a matter of knowing where to look.

The priest didn’t have one of the magic gems stitched into his head though, because he thought that talking to everyone else meant that you never listened to yourself anymore.

No. I won’t think about that. I’m not the man the press wants me to be. I am not the victim here.

I’m still not even sure I believe that now. Sounds like the sort of bullshit my psych supervisor would say.

She looks at me like I’m a car engine that’s been making a strange noise.

All too easy to find the needle when you know exactly where to look in the haystack.

I know enough to never take journalists at their word.

I often expect the worst. This is one of the rare times when I’m hoping for it.

She speaks with the authority of the ignorant.

Her voice cracks and I fight the tug of memories trying to pull me back to that place where people thought he was the center of the universe. I feel a flash of hatred toward her for being so broken by the loss of him, for needing him so much when he was just a man who scooped up the human detritus from the edges of society and fooled them into thinking they were part of something special.

Everybody is on a leash. Some are more obvious than others.