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Top 200 Emma Cline Quotes (2025 Update)

Emma Cline Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Quote: “We all want to be seen. –.”

2. “We all want to be seen. –.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Ze zocht zo hard dat op een gegeven moment de zoektocht het doel werd.”

3. “Ze zocht zo hard dat op een gegeven moment de zoektocht het doel werd.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Money is ego, and people won’t give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don’t realize it makes them slaves. It’s sick.”

4. “Money is ego, and people won’t give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don’t realize it makes them slaves. It’s sick.”

Emma Cline Quote: “They didn’t have very far to fall – I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.”

5. “They didn’t have very far to fall – I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Tutto il tempo che avevi trascorso a sistemarti, a leggere articoli che ti preparassero alla vita, era una sala d’aspetto in attesa di qualcuno che si accorgesse di te. Quel tempo i ragazzi lo avevano trascorso a diventare loro stessi.”

6. “Tutto il tempo che avevi trascorso a sistemarti, a leggere articoli che ti preparassero alla vita, era una sala d’aspetto in attesa di qualcuno che si accorgesse di te. Quel tempo i ragazzi lo avevano trascorso a diventare loro stessi.”

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “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. Some violent daydream prompting their guilty exhortations to ’make it home safe.”

8. “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. Some violent daydream prompting their guilty exhortations to ’make it home safe.”

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience. As if there were only one way things could go, the years leading you down a corridor to the room where your inevitable self waited – embryonic, ready to be revealed. How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.”

10. “She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience. As if there were only one way things could go, the years leading you down a corridor to the room where your inevitable self waited – embryonic, ready to be revealed. How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.”

Emma Cline Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of value. And how they seemed to want you to collude on your own judgement.”

12. “Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of value. And how they seemed to want you to collude on your own judgement.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Someone’s boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.”

13. “Someone’s boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I took on the shape of a girl.”

14. “I took on the shape of a girl.”

Emma Cline Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Quote: “No one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she became my definition. Her gaze softening my centre so easily that even photographs of her seemed aimed at me, ignited with private meaning.”

16. “No one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she became my definition. Her gaze softening my centre so easily that even photographs of her seemed aimed at me, ignited with private meaning.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I might always feel some form of this, a depression that did not lift but grew compact and familiar, a space occupied like the sad limbo of hotel rooms.”

17. “I might always feel some form of this, a depression that did not lift but grew compact and familiar, a space occupied like the sad limbo of hotel rooms.”

Emma Cline Quote: “How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.”

18. “How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.”

Emma Cline Quote: “My parents were not affectionate, and it surprised me that someone could just touch me at any moment, the gift of their hand given as thoughtlessly as a piece of gum.”

19. “My parents were not affectionate, and it surprised me that someone could just touch me at any moment, the gift of their hand given as thoughtlessly as a piece of gum.”

Emma Cline Quote: “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.”

20. “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 Quote: “I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.”

21. “I paid bills and bought groceries and got my eyes checked while the days crumbled away like debris from a cliff face. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The ways your desire could humiliate you.”

22. “The ways your desire could humiliate you.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Why couldn’t relationships be reciprocal, both people steadily accruing interest at the same rate?”

23. “Why couldn’t relationships be reciprocal, both people steadily accruing interest at the same rate?”

Emma Cline Quote: “Poor Sasha. 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. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like ‘sunset’ and ‘Paris.’ Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus.”

24. “Poor Sasha. 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. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like ‘sunset’ and ‘Paris.’ Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I looked up because of the laughter, and kept looking because of the girls.”

25. “I looked up because of the laughter, and kept looking because of the girls.”

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts. I might always feel some form of this, a depression that did not lift but grew compact and familiar, a space occupied like the sad limbo of hotel rooms.”

27. “And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts. I might always feel some form of this, a depression that did not lift but grew compact and familiar, a space occupied like the sad limbo of hotel rooms.”

Emma Cline Quote: “And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts.”

28. “And now I was older, and the wishful props of future selves had lost their comforts.”

Emma Cline Quote: “We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves that we hid from them – they would never sense the lack or even know there was something more they should be looking for. Suzanne.”

29. “We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves that we hid from them – they would never sense the lack or even know there was something more they should be looking for. Suzanne.”

Emma Cline Quote: “It was a time when I imagined getting married in a simple, wishful way. The time when someone promised to take care of you, promised they would notice if you were sad, or tired, or hated food that tasted like the chill of the refrigerator. Who promised their lives would run parallel to yours. My mother must have known and stayed anyway, and what did that mean about love? It was never going to be safe – all the mournful refrains of songs that despaired you didn’t love me the way I loved you.”

30. “It was a time when I imagined getting married in a simple, wishful way. The time when someone promised to take care of you, promised they would notice if you were sad, or tired, or hated food that tasted like the chill of the refrigerator. Who promised their lives would run parallel to yours. My mother must have known and stayed anyway, and what did that mean about love? It was never going to be safe – all the mournful refrains of songs that despaired you didn’t love me the way I loved you.”

Emma Cline Quote: “They didn’t have very far to fall – I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself.”

31. “They didn’t have very far to fall – I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself.”

Emma Cline Quote: “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.”

32. “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 Quote: “My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning.”

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

Emma Cline Quote: “But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne’s face looked as she watched him – I wanted to be with her. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they’d understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly.”

34. “But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne’s face looked as she watched him – I wanted to be with her. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they’d understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly.”

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

35. “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 Quote: “I remember noticing for the first time how loud she was, her voice hard with silly aggressiveness. Connie with her whines and feints, the grating laugh that sounded, and was, practiced. A space opened up between us as soon as I started to notice these things, to catalog her shortcomings the way a boy would. I regret how ungenerous I was. As if by putting distance between us, I could cure myself of the same disease.”

36. “I remember noticing for the first time how loud she was, her voice hard with silly aggressiveness. Connie with her whines and feints, the grating laugh that sounded, and was, practiced. A space opened up between us as soon as I started to notice these things, to catalog her shortcomings the way a boy would. I regret how ungenerous I was. As if by putting distance between us, I could cure myself of the same disease.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The only teenagers in town seemed to kill themselves in gruesomely rural ways – I heard about their pickups crashing at two in the morning, the sleepover in the garage camper ending in carbon monoxide poisoning, a dead quarterback. I didn’t know if this was a problem born of country living, the excess of time and boredom and recreational vehicles, or whether it was a California thing, a grain in the light urging risk and stupid cinematic stunts.”

37. “The only teenagers in town seemed to kill themselves in gruesomely rural ways – I heard about their pickups crashing at two in the morning, the sleepover in the garage camper ending in carbon monoxide poisoning, a dead quarterback. I didn’t know if this was a problem born of country living, the excess of time and boredom and recreational vehicles, or whether it was a California thing, a grain in the light urging risk and stupid cinematic stunts.”

Emma Cline Quote: “That was the strange thing – I didn’t hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne. Or my mother wanted Frank. You wanted things and you couldn’t help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake up with, and how could you ever tell yourself what you wanted was wrong?”

38. “That was the strange thing – I didn’t hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne. Or my mother wanted Frank. You wanted things and you couldn’t help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake up with, and how could you ever tell yourself what you wanted was wrong?”

Emma Cline Quote: “There are ways I made sense of my mother later. How fifteen years with my father had left great blanks in her life that she was learning to fill, like those stroke victims relearning the words for car and table and pencil. The shy way she looked for herself in the oracle of the mirror, as critical and hopeful as an adolescent. Sucking in her stomach to zip her new jeans.”

39. “There are ways I made sense of my mother later. How fifteen years with my father had left great blanks in her life that she was learning to fill, like those stroke victims relearning the words for car and table and pencil. The shy way she looked for herself in the oracle of the mirror, as critical and hopeful as an adolescent. Sucking in her stomach to zip her new jeans.”

Emma Cline Quote: “There are survivors of disasters whose accounts never begin with the tornado warning or the captain announcing engine failure, but always much earlier in the timeline: an insistence that they noticed a strange quality to the sunlight that morning or excessive static in their sheets. A meaningless fight with a boyfriend. As if the presentiment of catastrophe wove itself into everything that came before.”

40. “There are survivors of disasters whose accounts never begin with the tornado warning or the captain announcing engine failure, but always much earlier in the timeline: an insistence that they noticed a strange quality to the sunlight that morning or excessive static in their sheets. A meaningless fight with a boyfriend. As if the presentiment of catastrophe wove itself into everything that came before.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Neither of us could fully participate in our days, though later Suzanne would participate in a way she could never take back. I mean that we didn’t quite believe it was enough, what we were offered, and Tamar seemed to accept the world happily, as an end point. Her planning wasn’t actually about making anything different – she was just rearranging the same known quantities, puzzling out a new order like life was an extended seating chart.”

41. “Neither of us could fully participate in our days, though later Suzanne would participate in a way she could never take back. I mean that we didn’t quite believe it was enough, what we were offered, and Tamar seemed to accept the world happily, as an end point. Her planning wasn’t actually about making anything different – she was just rearranging the same known quantities, puzzling out a new order like life was an extended seating chart.”

Emma Cline Quote: “That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.”

42. “That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.”

Emma Cline Quote: “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.”

43. “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 Quote: “Maybe this was a better way, even though it seemed alien. To be part of this amorphous group, believing love could come from any direction. So you wouldn’t be disappointed if not enough came from the direction you’d hoped. –.”

44. “Maybe this was a better way, even though it seemed alien. To be part of this amorphous group, believing love could come from any direction. So you wouldn’t be disappointed if not enough came from the direction you’d hoped. –.”

Emma Cline Quote: “But it was only sad in the old world, I reminded myself, where people stayed cowed by the bitter medicine of their lives. Where money kept everyone slaves, where they buttoned their shirts up to the neck, strangling any love they had inside themselves. –.”

45. “But it was only sad in the old world, I reminded myself, where people stayed cowed by the bitter medicine of their lives. Where money kept everyone slaves, where they buttoned their shirts up to the neck, strangling any love they had inside themselves. –.”

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “This is what it might be like to be a mother, I though, watching Sasha drain her beer, wipe her mouth like a boy. To feel this unexpected, boundless tenderness for someone, seemingly out of nowhere.”

47. “This is what it might be like to be a mother, I though, watching Sasha drain her beer, wipe her mouth like a boy. To feel this unexpected, boundless tenderness for someone, seemingly out of nowhere.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Life a continuous backing away from the edge.”

48. “Life a continuous backing away from the edge.”

Emma Cline Quote: “When I was that age, I was uncertain of how to move, whether I was walking too fast, whether others could see the discomfort and stiffness in me. As if everyone were constantly gauging my performance and finding it lacking.”

49. “When I was that age, I was uncertain of how to move, whether I was walking too fast, whether others could see the discomfort and stiffness in me. As if everyone were constantly gauging my performance and finding it lacking.”

Emma Cline Quote: “There wasn’t that much difference. Between me and the other girls.”

50. “There wasn’t that much difference. Between me and the other girls.”

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