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Emma Cline quotes: My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning.

My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning.

Emma Cline quotes: It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.

It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.

Emma Cline quotes: We were jealous, imagining a boyfriend who wanted you so bad he broke the law.

We were jealous, imagining a boyfriend who wanted you so bad he broke the law.

Emma Cline quotes: It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as the kind of girls who belonged to each other.

It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as the kind of girls who belonged to each other.

Emma Cline quotes: I would always be like this, I thought, the person who closed the refrigerator.

I would always be like this, I thought, the person who closed the refrigerator.

Emma Cline quotes: Life a continuous backing away from the edge.

Life a continuous backing away from the edge.

Emma Cline quotes: I believed, in the way of adolescents, in the absolute correctness and superiority of my love.

I believed, in the way of adolescents, in the absolute correctness and superiority of my love.

Emma Cline quotes: The queer reminder in her smile. Like we had a meeting, she and I, at some appointed time and place, and she knew I would forget.

The queer reminder in her smile. Like we had a meeting, she and I, at some appointed time and place, and she knew I would forget.

Emma Cline quotes: We all want to be seen. -

We all want to be seen. -

Emma Cline quotes: She was flanked by a skinny redhead and an older girl, dressed with the same shabby afterthought. As if dredged from a lake.

She was flanked by a skinny redhead and an older girl, dressed with the same shabby afterthought. As if dredged from a lake.

Emma Cline quotes: I could drink until my problems seemed compact and pretty, something I could admire.

I could drink until my problems seemed compact and pretty, something I could admire.

Emma Cline quotes: They suggested E-meters, Gestalt, eating only high-mineral foods that had been planted during a full moon.

They suggested E-meters, Gestalt, eating only high-mineral foods that had been planted during a full moon.

Emma Cline quotes: My eyes were already habituated to the texture of decay, so I thought that I had passed back into the circle of light.

My eyes were already habituated to the texture of decay, so I thought that I had passed back into the circle of light.

Emma Cline quotes: The fumes of cruciferous vegetables, roiling in plastic bags. Nothing

The fumes of cruciferous vegetables, roiling in plastic bags. Nothing

Emma Cline quotes: I was already starting to understand that other people's admiration asked something of you. That you had to shape yourself around it.

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 quotes: There wasn't that much difference. Between me and the other girls.

There wasn't that much difference. Between me and the other girls.

Emma Cline quotes: The silences between us would've been better if they were colored with sadness or regret, but it was worse - I could hear how happy he was to be gone.

The silences between us would've been better if they were colored with sadness or regret, but it was worse - I could hear how happy he was to be gone.

Emma Cline quotes: Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get.

Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get.

Emma Cline quotes: She searched until there was only searching left.

She searched until there was only searching left.

Emma Cline quotes: Illuminati communicated with one another. "Why would a secret

Illuminati communicated with one another. "Why would a secret

Emma Cline quotes: These long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. Like royalty in exile. I

These long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. Like royalty in exile. I

Emma Cline quotes: Julian smiled what I thought of as the smile of an only son, someone who believed he would always get what he wanted.

Julian smiled what I thought of as the smile of an only son, someone who believed he would always get what he wanted.

Emma Cline quotes: her face answered all its own questions. I

her face answered all its own questions. I

Emma Cline quotes: I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.

I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.

Emma Cline quotes: He'd looked at us like we were butterflies he was pinning to a board.

He'd looked at us like we were butterflies he was pinning to a board.

Emma Cline quotes: I took on the shape of a girl.

I took on the shape of a girl.

Emma Cline quotes: ... a fugitive without a crime...

... a fugitive without a crime...

Emma Cline quotes: to eat meat was to eat fear

to eat meat was to eat fear

Emma Cline quotes: How they told me I was having fun all the time, and there was no way to explain that I wasn't.

How they told me I was having fun all the time, and there was no way to explain that I wasn't.

Emma Cline quotes: Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots.

Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots.

Emma Cline quotes: He had a weary air of responsibility about him, both bureaucratic and mythological, like someone doomed to guard a cave for all eternity. I

He had a weary air of responsibility about him, both bureaucratic and mythological, like someone doomed to guard a cave for all eternity. I

Emma Cline quotes: just the suffocating constancy of my own self, that numb and desperate company. -

just the suffocating constancy of my own self, that numb and desperate company. -

Emma Cline quotes: That's how badly people wanted it - to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been still existed inside of them.

That's how badly people wanted it - to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been still existed inside of them.

Emma Cline quotes: It was an age when I'd immediately scan and rank other girls, keeping up a constant tally of how I fell short.

It was an age when I'd immediately scan and rank other girls, keeping up a constant tally of how I fell short.

Emma Cline quotes: We licked batteries to feel a metallic jolt on the tongue, rumored to be one-eighteenth of an orgasm.

We licked batteries to feel a metallic jolt on the tongue, rumored to be one-eighteenth of an orgasm.

Emma Cline quotes: At that age, I was, first and foremost, a thing to be judged, and that shifted the power in every interaction onto the other person. The

At that age, I was, first and foremost, a thing to be judged, and that shifted the power in every interaction onto the other person. The

Emma Cline quotes: Break down the self, offer yourself up like dust to the universe.

Break down the self, offer yourself up like dust to the universe.

Emma Cline quotes: Her face as pale and blameless as a lesser moon. -

Her face as pale and blameless as a lesser moon. -

Emma Cline quotes: the sweet drone of honeysuckle thickening the

the sweet drone of honeysuckle thickening the

Emma Cline quotes: Why couldn't relationships be reciprocal, both people steadily accruing interest at the same rate?

Why couldn't relationships be reciprocal, both people steadily accruing interest at the same rate?

Emma Cline quotes: There are always places to go,

There are always places to go,

Emma Cline quotes: Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke, the idea that boys might actually want you.

Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke, the idea that boys might actually want you.

Emma Cline quotes: I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.

I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.

Emma Cline quotes: A lot of young people ran away: you could do it back then just because you were bored. You didn't even need a tragedy.

A lot of young people ran away: you could do it back then just because you were bored. You didn't even need a tragedy.

Emma Cline quotes: if by putting distance between us, I could cure myself of the same disease.

if by putting distance between us, I could cure myself of the same disease.

Emma Cline quotes: Sometimes it seemed like I never really left ...That a version of me is always there.

Sometimes it seemed like I never really left ...That a version of me is always there.

Emma Cline quotes: The ways your desire could humiliate you.

The ways your desire could humiliate you.

Emma Cline quotes: Who had ever held Suzanne in their arms and told her that her heart, beating away in her chest, was there on purpose?

Who had ever held Suzanne in their arms and told her that her heart, beating away in her chest, was there on purpose?

Emma Cline quotes: ...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't...

...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't...

Emma Cline quotes: I took her beauty personally.

I took her beauty personally.

Emma Cline quotes: Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.

Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.

Emma Cline quotes: Pamela was beautiful, it was true, and I felt that submerged attraction to her that everyone felt for the beautiful.

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