The Whole Truth Quotes

“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

“It’s dusk, that most deceptive time of the day. The memory of light still in the sky, but the earth dark below.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“just feel a bit of a shit, that’s all. I mean, yes, Marina did make up that crap about the grooming, but only because of that picture – because she was scared. And as for the sex, I mean, you know how much I wish it had never happened, but it just did – she never forced me – she was just upset”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“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.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Anxious attachment is usually the result of inconsistent, erratic or absent parenting. Such children become highly insecure and over-focused on the parent in question, which manifests itself in clinging and suspicious responses, and a willingness to do almost anything to please that parent and secure their attention.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Somer nods slowly. How many women have thought the same thing, over the years? How many rape victims decided not to come forward for exactly the same reason?”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“What Tobin saw was his mother having sex. He’d never seen it before, he had no idea what it meant and he was understandably frightened. But he had no need to be: his mother wasn’t in any danger. Like I said, she was just having sex. But if that’s what happened – if that’s all it was – you’ve got a lot of questions to answer. Starting with why the hell you’ve been lying to us all this time.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“What about your mum?’ She smiles. ‘She was far too shrewd. But Dad just couldn’t believe sweet little eight-year-old girls could be such good liars.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“But it’s a risk – what if all it does is confirm he was miles away at the time and couldn’t possibly have done it? We could just be gifting him a gold-plated alibi.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Might be worth noting,’ says Quinn eventually, ‘that Morgan made sure to rinse those champagne glasses afterwards. Either he had something to hide or he’s going to make someone a lovely wife one of these days.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“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

“Is it a game, Mummy, like last time? I liked that game.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“But I knew. And I said nothing. I didn’t stop her, because it was the only way to stop him. He was guilty and we had nothing else. But it was still a lie. And now Gavin Parrie is making me pay.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Not from Penny McHugh, however sharp she is, but from someone who knows how police investigations work. Someone on the inside.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Or to get him off the hook with Freya,’ says Asante. ‘We know how jealous she was – I can see her losing it big time if she discovered Morgan really was having an affair.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Quinn folds his arms and frowns. He hates being corrected, especially by Asante.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“As for Gavin, he’s always contended that – far from going straight to that Co-op, as instructed – Alexandra Sheldon broke into his lock-up, using the key she’d just seen him put back above the garage door. And once she got in, she planted some strands of her own hair on the floor, knowing the police would find them.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Smelling such an evocative odour for the first time since the incident could easily have triggered a terrifying flashback. The body would go into fight-or-flight mode – the heart would be racing and the brain would no longer be functioning normally.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“All that quiet authority, that sense of latent power held in check – it’s all gone. He looks hollowed out, scourged, paranoia ground like dirt into the lines around his eyes”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“What I’m asking you to do is drop this preposterous case. The whole thing is absurd – it’s political correctness gone psychotic.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Perhaps Smith went along with it to start with – perhaps that’s why you thought she was OK with it. Perhaps she was the one who initiated it – maybe she’d fancied you for years, who knows. Only then suddenly she’s changing her mind – trying to push you off”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“She was such a lovely person,’ said one. ‘She was dedicated to her job, and worked tirelessly to find loving new homes and families for children in need. She will be desperately missed.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“What? What are you accusing me of now?’ he says acidly. ‘The Rwandan genocide? 9/11? No wait – the grassy knoll – it has to be the grassy knoll.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Too rich, too posh, too bloody white.’ He checks himself, reddens, then runs a hand through his hair. ‘I was upset, OK? Annoyed. Anyone would have been, in my position.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“There are only five of us and we’re always swamped. Finding children new families – it’s such important work and she takes it so seriously”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Because she knows what’s coming: whatever their agenda is, whatever ‘angle’ they come up with, they’ll still have to talk about her – about her and about Adam.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“But then again, this is Oxford. When it comes to through the looking glass, this place wrote the book.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“It was a message, and not a very subtle one: these people have backchannels and they’re going to use them. They’re giving me a choice: I can do this the hard way or the easy way, but if I know what’s good for me I’ll shut up and play nice.”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth

“Ev was right about the prosecco. Marina Fisher buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd. She also spends at least a grand a month on clothes and has over ten thousand Twitter followers, how’s that for starters?”
― Cara Hunter, The Whole Truth