Top 100 Huntley Quotes
#1. I had no reason to feel wary of Huntley.There were no warning signs or anything like that. Little did I know there were allegations against Huntley going back as far as August 1995 ...
Stephen Richards
#2. The police were actually adding to my pain and
suffering by pursuing me. If it had been Huntley doing that to me and I had the proof, I would have said, 'Hey, Mr Policeman, Huntley is giving me trouble here,' and then they might have sent him a letter, at the very least.
Stephen Richards
#3. Another crucial problem was errors made by the
Cambridgeshire Police in their use of their 'check
system', which allowed Huntley to get a job at Soham
Village College.
Stephen Richards
#4. My brother Hayden's friendship with James Webber
would be the catalyst for a fateful and accidental
meeting between me and the future Soham killer Ian
Huntley.
Stephen Richards
#5. News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.
Robert Krulwich
#6. I had not learned anything about Huntley that would
have alerted me to what he was. I had no reason, as an 11-year-old girl, to be wary of him. No one said, 'This guy likes to have sex with young girls.
Stephen Richards
#7. You can be in the same rut for so long, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, everything changes and you remember what the point is. The point, of course, is love. To love someone, to be loved by someone: that is the point.
Swan Huntley
#8. I haven't seen Joel for a while. Where he once projected all laidback cool, now he's edgy, stalking around the kitchen. Alice churns out pancakes and the younger kids sit at the table, watching as if their older siblings are Nickelodeon.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#9. The worst thing about being a blonde is that your entire body blushes - ears, throat, everything. Impossible to overlook.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#10. When she's worried Vivien gives herself pedicures and facials. Nic lifts weights. I bake. So, Vivien ends up looking more glamourous. Nic gets fitter. And I just get fat.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#11. Hey, he says again, sitting down next to me as though he knows me well. Need rescuing?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#12. The combined odors of Cass's subtle aftershave and the disgusting reek of Nic are overpowering. I wonder if Cass will keel over and I'll have to perform CPR. This speculation should not feel so much like a fantasy.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#13. Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.
Chet Huntley
#14. It's not rocket science, Nan. You show someone they matter to you - do whatever it takes to show that.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#15. I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.
Chet Huntley
#16. I remember ... watching that separation of sea and sky ... and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#17. Do you know how many times I've read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" to this kid? That is one fucked-up story. How is that a book for babies?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#18. Instead of what a betrayal it is to be lied to, how rare and wonderful it is when two human beings can tell each other the truth.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#19. Mom. He didn't do drugs. I've told you that before. He was just weird.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#20. My hand is stroking the back of Nan's head, my mind racing with every possible scenario. Daniel announced he's gay. Daniel has Erectile Dysfunction. Daniel confessed to being a vampire and not being able to have sex with her because he might kill her.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#21. You can choose where your feet take you, man. That's Dominic again, who's like my own little Jiminy Cricket, Portuguese fisherman style.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#22. Everything you say makes sense, sir. I guess it's logical. But with all due respect, you're out of your fucking mind. Come on, Sam. Let's go home.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#24. I wonder if the children of movie stars get this weird sense of disconnect I have now. The person on-screen looks like the woman who makes lemonade in our kitchen, but the words coming out of her mouth are alien.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#25. If there were an Olympics for kidding yourself, I'd take home the gold.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#26. Well, Samantha ... you were introduced to this guy. It went downhill from there. That might make it justifiable homicide. From time to time, I've wanted to kill people I knew even less well ... strangers in supermarkets.
Am I on my roof with a psychopath?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#27. The Man of Steel never rests. Or maybe that's Jose the yard boy. I get my alter egos confused.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#28. Is it? All I know is that I can't seem to stop - this - or slow it down. Or remember exactly why that's what I want.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#29. If what I want is a little less big, less noble than what he wants... does that make me the loser?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#30. Then yesterday, in the dim watches of the night a dream came to me. A voice spoke and said: 'Love beyond price is yours. Take and cherish it, lest this priceless gift be withdrawn!'
I awoke, happy, myself once more, grateful that life could come to me again.
Lyllian Huntley Harris
#31. So now you've met my mother,' I say to Jase that night, leaning back on the roof.
'I sure have. That was awesome. And completely uncomfortable.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#33. It is as if everything else in the world stops as we lie here in the summer night.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#34. By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.
Hailey Giblin
#35. This boy. Eyes on my face again, little smile lurking, just barely parenthesizing the corners of his lips. He lifts his eyebrows, waiting. And willing to. However long.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#37. Tonight I write this journal entry on my laptop. Other nights I have handwritten entries in notebooks. Sometimes I jot down notes as I ride home in the cab or wait for an appointment. I want all of this
everything and everyone
to stay with me.
Paula Huntley
#38. With my track record, I'll probably be able to screw up all three branches of government in about a week and a half.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#39. It'd be good if you'd stop apologizing right about now." "It's about all I've got to fix things.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#41. Maybe if I can just sleep for a hundred years, I'll wake up in a better story.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#42. Just so you know, Alice's nurse's uniform is a pair of green scrubs. She looks like Gumby.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#43. He's so easy to forgive. No sins at all. Not like my mom. Not like me.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#45. No bikinis on a first date." He nods. "I'm sure that's a rule. Or should be. For my sisters anyway.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#46. I don't know. I didn't have that choice. But I know what's happening now. And I'm choosing to stay with you.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#47. I love the way your whole body turns pink when you're embarrassed," he murmurs. "Everywhere. Your ears blush. Even your knees blush. I bet your toes blush.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#48. When I turn back to Jase, he's again beaming at me. "You're nice." He sounds pleased, as if he hadn't expected this aspect of my personality.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#49. Maybe she's a gymnast with superior muscle control."
"She'd have to be in Cirque de Soleil to manage this.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#50. I would so much rather be with someone who cared about what he was doing than someone who knew what he was doing.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#51. This is Sailor Supergirl," George says. "She knows all about black holes.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#52. Looks out over the water, the ocean that changes and never changes. Horizons that seem like endings but only bend farther into the sky, curving into something new, beginning all over again.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#54. You're just going to walk away-like that? You're leaving it this way? Now? I love you. You can't ...
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#55. He instantly covers my fingers with his own, giving me his slow, intoxicating smile. I feel a pang, as though I'm handing over a part of myself I've never offered before.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#56. You okay? This okay?"
I nod, pulling his hips more tightly to my own.
"Now we'll make it better," Jase vows, and begins to kiss me again as he starts to move in a rhythm. My body follows, unwilling to let him go, already glad to have him come back.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#59. That what you've always had doesn't mean that's what you'll always get. That what you've always wanted isn't what you'll always want.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#60. I can't help but notice that ... well, you're in my life ... at our house, with my family, in my world. But am I really in yours? ...
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#62. I'll just sit back here and perform a few of the more acrobatic positions in the Kama Sutra. By myself, sadly.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#63. I've been sober nearly two months, but I have yet to go cold turkey on assholicism.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#64. You can't do this. You have to give me a chance to fix whatever it is I've done. What have I done?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#65. The Garretts were my bedtime story, long before I ever thought I'd be part of the story myself.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#67. Right. A tiki bar will blend in great with the whole Henry VIII vibe going on at the B&T. Bring me a scorpion bowl, wench.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#68. No words for a long time. Which is fine, because even the most important ones
I love you. I'm sorry. Forgive me? I'm here
are only stand-ins for what you can say better without talking at all.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#69. I peer at them, noticing that they all say things like "A STEAL AT $ 3,999!" or "THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM ANYMORE" or "PURRS LIKE A TIGER CUB.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#70. It's a good idea to keep your eye on the guys who think they know the one true path. They might just mow you down if you're in their way.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#71. God, I hate it when people even say there are types, like people come in flavors.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#72. Even though this is something I know I want, I start to panic a little, until I remember the person I trust more than anyone else in the world. Jase. And I decide he's right. We'll figure it out together.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#73. It's like Tim's drowning and they're worried about the color of his swimsuit.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#74. It's as though I don't make a ripple as I drop off the face of the earth.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#75. It's just whether you're going to do a decent thing or keep doing shitty things. So choose. Just stop whining about it.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#76. I could always get by on a fake ID, calm face, and a smile. My sister could look guilty saying her prayers.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#77. If optimism is the highest form of courage
as I am beginning to believe it is
then these students are all heroes.
Paula Huntley
#78. Shhhh. He pulls on my lower lip gently with his teeth, then fits his mouth to mine. First so careful, and then so deep and deliberate, that I can't think of anything at all but his smooth back under my hands.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#79. Fanning out the possibilities in front of me like paint chips - How lovely this would look on your future!
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#80. I believe that all sex offenders, and especially those with multiple allegations against them, should be made known to the locality where they live.
Stephen Richards
#81. I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the ... government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
Chet Huntley
#82. Every time, I've bitten my tongue, stayed silent, with the thought: If I tell him, I'll lose him. Tonight is when I know. I already have.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#83. Before you drown, the spinning just feels like a dance.
Swan Huntley
#84. Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.
Chet Huntley
#85. You're walking along on this path, dazzled by how perfect it is, how great you feel, and then just a few forks in the road and you are lost in a place so bad you never could have imagined it.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#86. I used self-injury as a coping mechanism to help me overcome the emotional stress that I was incapable of dealing with in any other way. Self-injury was a means of escape, a way to relieve the numbness, and an expression of the pain within me. Something that the police wouldn't care about.
Stephen Richards
#87. Our house contains all that's high-end and high-tech and shiny clean. And three people who would rather be somewhere else.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#88. Jase props himself up on an elbow, looking at me for a minute without saying anything. His face gets an unreadable expression, and I wish I could take back walking over.
Then he observes, "I'm guessing that's a uniform."
Crap. I'd forgotten I was still wearing it.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#89. You have to kiss me," I find myself saying.
"Yeah." He leans closer. "I do.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#90. Her lips touch just against my mouth, then the cleft of my chin, back to my lips. 'Good night, Tim.' My lips on her forehead. 'Good night, Alice.' I can't remember ever having something and not reaching for more. But I back away from her, hands in my pockets. Enough.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#91. Sometimes we hold on to something - a person, a resentment, a regret, an idea of who we are - because we don't know what to reach for next.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#92. Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.
Chet Huntley
#93. That prickling feeling when something's not right. That calm feeling when it is.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#94. Who are these people, and why do they think their own opinions are the only right ones?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#95. Dressed-up Cass is like a creature from another planet. One I want to colonize.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#97. Mines!" Patsy shouts, pointing at Tim. He goes to her, rumples her scanty hair.
"See, hot Alice? Even the very young feel the pull of my magnetism. It's like an irresistible urge, a force like gravity, or - "
"Poop!
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#98. It's only been a few weeks and somehow I seem to have gotten far from shore.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#100. Right. Because if you have trouble putting ketchup and mustard on a hot dog, you should totally move on to saving lives.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
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