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

“Yeah, well, if I come from a shithole, whose fault is that? Because it can’t be the genes, can it. There can’t be anything wrong with those. I mean, look at you – your wife’s in pieces, your son is struggling, and you don’t even appear to have bloody noticed.”
― Cara Hunter, No Way Out

“Which, judging by Baxter’s (admittedly limited) experience of the social media habits of proud new parents, strikes him as decidedly odd. Janet Gislingham’s timeline bristles with Billy – no change is too minute to go unchronicled, no development too trivial to show the world. Quinn once observed sardonically that she might as well post his puke and have done with it, but he didn’t get the laugh he”
― Cara Hunter, No Way Out

“My family have lived in Oxford since 1909. My great-grandfather came on a visit to the city and thought it was very beautiful. There were houses being built in Southey Road then and he bought one. He was the one who gave it its name. It is called Felix House which means ‘lucky’ in Latin. It’s because he felt lucky to live here. We are the only family who have ever lived in it.”
― Cara Hunter, No Way Out

“So don’t come the outraged virgin with me, matey. You’re absolutely fine with ‘exploiting your family’, just as long as you’re the one who’s doing it.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“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

“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

“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

“What’s unreasonable is leaving a fifteen-year-old girl to bring up a baby alone. What’s unreasonable is growing up on the breadline because your mother’s family have disowned her. What’s unreasonable is finding out your father’s rolling in it and not a single fucking penny of it has ever come your way –’ ‘We’re not rolling in it. We never were and we certainly aren’t now.’ ‘Fine. Like I said. I just want what’s due to me. My fair share.”
― Cara Hunter, No Way Out

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

“She’s making judgements – of course she is. That’s what we’re trained to do. Pick up nuances, intercept signals, interpret appearances. But you don’t need police training to draw some pretty obvious conclusions from the state of this place. The mess, the empties lined up by the back door, the fact that I haven’t bothered to shower since I got”
― Cara Hunter, No Way Out

“So Maura thought Amelie’d done it, and Amelie thought Maura had, but neither of them said anything so they never found out they’d both got it wrong. It’s like something out of bloody Thomas Hardy—”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“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

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

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

“Dad would play golf with men who never got invited in, and Mum would go out during the day and tell us she was seeing her ‘ladies who lunched’. We never saw them at the house either.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“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

“been managing Quinn for months; it’s down to him now.”
― Cara Hunter, Hope to Die

“I don’t like Caleb any more. He hurt my mummy. I’m going to kill him. I’m going to kill him with a big sword like George and the dragon.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth