Emma Cline

“Let's just give her a ride into town," Suzanne said. She spoke briskly, like I was a mess that needed to be…

— Emma Cline

“None of this was rare. Things like this happened hundreds of times. Maybe more. The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of…

— Emma Cline

“Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don't…

— Emma Cline

“There are survivors of disasters whose accounts never begin with the tornado warning or the captain announcing engine failure, but always much…

— Emma Cline

“The possibility of judgment being passed on me supplanted any worries or questions I might have about Russell. At that age, I…

— Emma Cline

“Mislila sam da ljubav koju prema nekom osjećaš djeluje kao zaštitna mjera, pa će ta osoba razumjeti raspon i snagu tvojih osjećaja…

— Emma Cline

“A rock, I thought crazily. He'll pick up a rock. He'll break open my skull, my brain leaking onto the sand. He'll…

— Emma Cline

“The built-in preventative of another person meant I couldn’t indulge the animal feelings, couldn’t leave orange peels in the kitchen sink. I…

— Emma Cline

“I was already starting to understand that other people's admiration asked something of you. That you had to shape yourself around it.”

— Emma Cline

“Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of value. And how they seemed…

— Emma Cline

“No-one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she had become my definition. Her gaze softening my centre so…

— Emma Cline

“How drugs patchworked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for…

— Emma Cline

“But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to…

— Emma Cline

“She clung to him like a burr.”

— Emma Cline

“I took her beauty personally.”

— Emma Cline

“I could see she was nervous with my eyes on her. I understood the worry. When I was that age, I was…

— Emma Cline

“I might always feel some form of this, a depression that did not lift but grew compact and familiar, a space occupied…

— Emma Cline

“We all want to be seen. —”

— Emma Cline

“That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could…

— Emma Cline

“Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years...he wanted me to know what I already knew: that I had no power.…

— Emma Cline

“The filmmaker wanted me to know what I already knew: I had no power. He saw my need and used it against…

— Emma Cline

“I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The nights…

— Emma Cline

“We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of…

— Emma Cline

“They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe…

— Emma Cline

“The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if…

— Emma Cline