No Way Out Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“You’re right, officer. Academic misdemeanours are rarely, if ever, pecuniary in nature.”
― 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

“Someone said, didn’t they, that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. Well, if that’s the case, all I can say is he has pretty poor taste sometimes.”
― Cara Hunter, No Way Out