Quotes by : Emma Cline

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

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

It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn't accumulate as I'd once imagined. I graduated from boarding....

She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing....

Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke,....

I took on the shape of a girl.

. . . even the surprise of harmless others in the house disturbed me. I didn't want my inner rot on display,....

I'd seen old Yardley Slickers- the makeup now just a waxy crumble- sell for almost one hundred dollars....

Pamela was beautiful, it was true, and I felt that submerged attraction to her that everyone felt for....

Sadness at that age had the pleasing texture of imprisonment: you reared and sulked against the bonds....