Cara Hunter > Quotes

“... a pesar de que la mayor parte de la raza humana está compuesta por cerdos, de vez en cuando un cerdito se casa con una cerdita y nace un leopardo...”
― Cara Hunter, ¿Quién se ha llevado a Daisy Mason?

“Kids that young get things out of proportion. Especially bad things. They can’t put them in perspective, and they can’t see beyond how bad they feel right now. If children under twelve commit suicide, that’s usually the reason why.”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home

“cheek, where tears still linger, and she wishes with all her heart she was like the princess in Brave. She wouldn’t be frightened being in the forest all alone. But Daisy is. Daisy is very frightened indeed.”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home

“The casual assumption – even by people who’d never think of themselves as sexist – that an attractive and ambitious woman must be using the one to further the other. She’s faced it enough times in her own career, but she’d been hoping dinosaur attitudes like that were finally dying out.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Occam’s razor. Always believe the simplest of all available explanations.”
― Cara Hunter, In the Dark

“What’s sex?’ says Millie, edging closer. The others stare at her and Nanxi rolls her eyes. ‘You know,’ says Daisy, as if talking to an idiot, ‘when a boy sticks his thing in you down there and stuff comes out.”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home

“Because he knows. And one day – maybe not today, maybe not this week or this month or this year – but one day, he’s going to find her, and he’s going to make her pay for what she did. It’s 30 degrees but she’s shivering suddenly, her hot skin iced with sweat.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“suddenly gets a bad case of late-onset moral responsibility?”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“He’s bought the wine he knows she likes, put flowers in their bedroom, fresh towels in the shower.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“He was rubbish, incidentally, especially for an Aussie, which always pissed me off because it meant he never wanted to play for very long.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Seeing as you’ve got such a bob on y’self, big tyma, let’s me and you hop on a buzz and find somewhere we can chobble some bostin fettle and a couple or three tots. What d’ya say?”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“It’s come to be known as the ‘Cougar Killing’ though, and more than a decade on, there is still no evidence to suggest that Caroline Ryder murdered her much younger husband, and she has certainly never been charged. Nor, indeed, has anyone else.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Despite everything – despite the crime she’s just been accused of – he still can’t quite keep the smugness out of his voice. Which tells me everything I need to know about what sort of asset this woman must be to the college”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Because in a few short months we’ve managed to crack a case that had defeated the Metropolitan Police for two decades.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Her cheeks are slightly flushed and, judging by their faces, both men are captivated by her, though it’s debatable whether it’s her cleavage or her conversation that’s making the greater impact.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“much so, that immediately the bomb went off, and even though he himself was injured, he saw it not as a disaster, but a golden opportunity”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“She never came to the house so I don’t know how come she’s so fucking knowledgeable all of a sudden.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“That he didn’t have to be ashamed of who he was because God made him that way and loved him regardless. He just needed to surround himself with other folks who would think the way I did.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“He bites his tongue. His mother is no less absent than his father, it’s just a different sort of distance. But he knows from experience there’s no point saying so.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Shame's a rather unfashionable sentiment these days: the modern world is always telling us we don't need to be embarrassed about anything we do – or think. But the shame response is still there, in the psyche – self-disgust, regret, revulsion. Those are immensely powerful emotions (..) (p. 332)”
― Cara Hunter, In the Dark

“think the real Eric Fulton died in New York. Died, or maybe got killed. Remember, the city was still dealing with the AIDS crisis as late as the mid ’90s, and he would definitely have been in a high-risk group.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Eric had never seemed like the adventurous type. I was surprised he even had a passport. Most folks here don’t.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Not by commission, perhaps, but omission. I don’t want to adopt a child, but not because the life I have is sufficient. It’s because the idea terrifies me. Like betting your whole existence on a gigantic lucky dip. Nurture is strong, but blood is stronger. My mother and father have never told me they’re not my biological parents, but I know, I’ve known for years. I found the papers in my”
― Cara Hunter, In the Dark

“Gender politics, university politics. Minefields don’t get any murkier than that. What the hell else could there”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Remember that debate about sexual violence in the Union a couple of months back? She’d be all over this, even if the victim in question wasn’t her son.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Look, we just didn’t like him, OK? End of. Not everything is sodding child abuse, you know. Not that you’d know it from all the TV crime shit.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Certainly nothing to justify six hours of hostile police interrogation. I’m sure we’d all like to think we’ve moved on, but you only have to read the news to know that good old-fashioned racial profiling is alive and well.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Caroline had been the Howards’s au pair, and there was quite a scandal when Andrew Howard married her within weeks of his wife’s death.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Christ, death by Comic Sans.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“But he only has himself to blame: he let his dick rule his head and got involved with a suspect. He was lucky he didn’t get fired. But he’ll show them – he’ll get his stripes back.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth