Close to Home 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

“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

“Alex siempre ha sido la fuerte de los dos. O al menos eso es lo que yo había creído siempre. Recuerdo que mi padrino de boda la llamó «mi roca», y en el banquete todo el mundo sonrió y asintió al reconocer en el apelativo a la Alex que todos conocían. También lo era la Alex que yo conocía, por más que detestara el tópico. Hasta estos últimos meses no me había dado cuenta de lo espantosamente acertado que resulta. Porque las rocas no son flexibles, las rocas no ceden. La clase de fortaleza que tiene Alex, enfrentada a lo insoportable, se hace añicos.”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home

“happened with Jessica and it’s happening now. Your own fucking daughter. You never stop boasting about her when she’s not there, but you never say anything nice to her face. You never tell her she looks nice or she’s pretty –’ ‘My mother never told me I was pretty when I was a child.’ ‘That’s not the bloody point.”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home

“What, in your knickers? Ergh, that’s disgusting!’ Daisy shrugs. ‘It’s what grown-ups do. It’s supposed to be nice.’ Nanxi stops texting for a moment and looks up. ‘I’m with Millie. I think it sounds disgusting. And any case, how come you know so much about it?’ Daisy throws her stone on to the hopscotch squares and watches it roll to a halt before starting back down the course.”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home

“I’ve never understood why people buy cream carpet, especially if they have children, but it hardly seems the moment to argue. So we bend over like a couple of schoolkids, undoing our laces. Gislingham flashes me a look: there are hooks by the door labelled with the family’s names, and their shoes are lined up by the mat. By size. And colour. Jesus.”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home

“You know the look. Sharp suit and blunt razor.”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home

“everything’s been ruined, everything’s gone wrong. She looks up through the trees and the branches seem to be closing in over her head. But not like Snow White , not like Sleeping Beauty. There’s no prince here, no rescuer on a beautiful white horse. Only a dark sky and monsters in the shadows. She can hear noises in the undergrowth, the rustling of small animals and a heavier movement coming steadily closer, step by step. She wipes her 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”
― Cara Hunter, Close to Home