Top 200 Emma Cline Quotes (2024 Update)
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Emma Cline Quote: “Pamela was beautiful, it was true, and I felt that submerged attraction to her that everyone felt for the beautiful.”

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

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

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

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “Her face could have been an error, but some other process was at work. It was better than beauty. The.”

54. “Her face could have been an error, but some other process was at work. It was better than beauty. The.”

Emma Cline Quote: “He’d looked at us like we were butterflies he was pinning to a board.”

55. “He’d looked at us like we were butterflies he was pinning to a board.”

Emma Cline Quote: “That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren’t hiding anything.”

56. “That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren’t hiding anything.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

60. “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 Quote: “A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my hand. The sparkly mess of flies I’d swept from the corners. It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.”

61. “A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my hand. The sparkly mess of flies I’d swept from the corners. It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.”

Emma Cline Quote: “She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans. Poor Sasha. She.”

62. “She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans. Poor Sasha. She.”

Emma Cline Quote: “All the other girls thought the director was making the choice. But it was really me telling the director, in my secret way, that the part was mine.”

63. “All the other girls thought the director was making the choice. But it was really me telling the director, in my secret way, that the part was mine.”

Emma Cline Quote: “She clung to him like a burr.”

64. “She clung to him like a burr.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I should get rid of the photo, I knew, the image already charged with the guilty air of evidence. But I couldn’t. I turned the picture over, burying it in a book I’d never read again. The second photo was of the smeary back of someone’s head, turning away, and I stared at the image for a long moment before I realized the person was me.”

65. “I should get rid of the photo, I knew, the image already charged with the guilty air of evidence. But I couldn’t. I turned the picture over, burying it in a book I’d never read again. The second photo was of the smeary back of someone’s head, turning away, and I stared at the image for a long moment before I realized the person was me.”

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.”

66. “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: “So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love.”

67. “So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Living alone was frightening in that way. No one to police the spill of yourself, the ways you betrayed your primitive desires. Like a cocoon built around you, made of your own naked proclivities and never tidied into the patterns of actual human life. I.”

68. “Living alone was frightening in that way. No one to police the spill of yourself, the ways you betrayed your primitive desires. Like a cocoon built around you, made of your own naked proclivities and never tidied into the patterns of actual human life. I.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.”

69. “The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.”

Emma Cline Quote: “So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love. We spoke of our desperate need for them with rote and familiar words, like we were reading lines from a play. Later I would see this: how impersonal and grasping our love was, pinging around the universe, hoping for a host to give form to our wishes.”

70. “So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love. We spoke of our desperate need for them with rote and familiar words, like we were reading lines from a play. Later I would see this: how impersonal and grasping our love was, pinging around the universe, hoping for a host to give form to our wishes.”

Emma Cline Quote: “For a moment, I tried to see myself through the eyes of the girl with the black hair, or even the boy in the cowboy hat, studying my features for a vibration under the skin. The effort was visible in my face, and I felt ashamed. No wonder the boy had seemed disgusted: He must have seen the longing in me. Seen how my face was blatant with need, like an orphan’s empty dish. And that was the difference between me and the black-haired girl- her face answered all it’s own questions.”

71. “For a moment, I tried to see myself through the eyes of the girl with the black hair, or even the boy in the cowboy hat, studying my features for a vibration under the skin. The effort was visible in my face, and I felt ashamed. No wonder the boy had seemed disgusted: He must have seen the longing in me. Seen how my face was blatant with need, like an orphan’s empty dish. And that was the difference between me and the black-haired girl- her face answered all it’s own questions.”

Emma Cline Quote: “None of this was rare. Things like this happened hundreds of times. Maybe more. The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl’s face – I think Suzanne recognized it. Of course my hand would anticipate the weight of a knife. The particular give of a human body. There was so much to destroy.”

72. “None of this was rare. Things like this happened hundreds of times. Maybe more. The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl’s face – I think Suzanne recognized it. Of course my hand would anticipate the weight of a knife. The particular give of a human body. There was so much to destroy.”

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

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

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

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

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

75. “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 Quote: “It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.”

76. “It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.”

Emma Cline Quote: “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?”

77. “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: “She had already absented herself, I knew, gone to that other place in her mind where Julian was sweet and kind and life was fun, or if it wasn’t fun, it was interesting, and wasn’t that valuable, didn’t that mean something?”

78. “She had already absented herself, I knew, gone to that other place in her mind where Julian was sweet and kind and life was fun, or if it wasn’t fun, it was interesting, and wasn’t that valuable, didn’t that mean something?”

Emma Cline Quote: “Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way. The sleepy crease of his eyes from his permanent high. Connie paled in comparison: I didn’t really believe that friendship could be an end in itself, not just the background fuzz to the dramatics of boys loving you or not loving you.”

79. “Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way. The sleepy crease of his eyes from his permanent high. Connie paled in comparison: I didn’t really believe that friendship could be an end in itself, not just the background fuzz to the dramatics of boys loving you or not loving you.”

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “At that age I looked at women with brutal and emotionless judgement. Assessing the slope of their breasts, imagining how they would look in very crude positions.”

81. “At that age I looked at women with brutal and emotionless judgement. Assessing the slope of their breasts, imagining how they would look in very crude positions.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Sadness at that age had the pleasing texture of imprisonment: you reared and sulked against the bonds of parents and school and age, things that kept you from the certain happiness that awaited. When I was a sophomore in college, I had a boyfriend who spoke breathlessly of running away to Mexico – it didn’t occur to me that we could no longer run away from home.”

82. “Sadness at that age had the pleasing texture of imprisonment: you reared and sulked against the bonds of parents and school and age, things that kept you from the certain happiness that awaited. When I was a sophomore in college, I had a boyfriend who spoke breathlessly of running away to Mexico – it didn’t occur to me that we could no longer run away from home.”

Emma Cline Quote: “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.”

83. “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 Quote: “The moment the frightened people understand the sweet dailiness of their lives – the swallow of morning orange juice, the tilting curve taken on a bicycle – is already gone.”

84. “The moment the frightened people understand the sweet dailiness of their lives – the swallow of morning orange juice, the tilting curve taken on a bicycle – is already gone.”

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

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

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “How drugs patchworked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. I wanted Russell to be a genius.”

87. “How drugs patchworked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. I wanted Russell to be a genius.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Maybe I should have been frightened of him. This older man who saw that I was alone, who felt like I owed him something, which was the worst thing a man like that could feel.”

88. “Maybe I should have been frightened of him. This older man who saw that I was alone, who felt like I owed him something, which was the worst thing a man like that could feel.”

Emma Cline Quote: “It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn’t accumulate as I’d once imagined. I graduated from boarding school, two years of college. Persisted through the blank decade in Los Angeles. I buried first my mother, then my father. His hair gone wispy as a child’s. 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.”

89. “It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn’t accumulate as I’d once imagined. I graduated from boarding school, two years of college. Persisted through the blank decade in Los Angeles. I buried first my mother, then my father. His hair gone wispy as a child’s. 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: “I envied Victor’s certainty, the idiot syntax of the righteous. This belief – that the world had a visible order, and all we had to do was look for the symbols – as if evil were a code that could be cracked.”

90. “I envied Victor’s certainty, the idiot syntax of the righteous. This belief – that the world had a visible order, and all we had to do was look for the symbols – as if evil were a code that could be cracked.”

Emma Cline Quote: “How Linda must have believed, as beautiful people do, that there was a solution, that she would be saved.”

91. “How Linda must have believed, as beautiful people do, that there was a solution, that she would be saved.”

Emma Cline Quote: “She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience.”

92. “She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Ik was jaloers op dat vertrouwen, het idee dat een ander de lege stukken van je leven aan elkaar kon naaien zodat je een vangnet onder je had, waarmee elke dag met de volgende was verbonden.”

93. “Ik was jaloers op dat vertrouwen, het idee dat een ander de lege stukken van je leven aan elkaar kon naaien zodat je een vangnet onder je had, waarmee elke dag met de volgende was verbonden.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The forced conversation. The requisite swapping of biographical details, the desperate trawl for some crossover. Anything to distract from the basic commerce of the transaction, the deception at its heart: as if any of this would make you more attractive, would even out the unfairness of how beauty or privilege was handed out.”

94. “The forced conversation. The requisite swapping of biographical details, the desperate trawl for some crossover. Anything to distract from the basic commerce of the transaction, the deception at its heart: as if any of this would make you more attractive, would even out the unfairness of how beauty or privilege was handed out.”

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

95. “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 Quote: “Of course the girls didn’t leave the ranch: there is a lot that can be borne. When I was nine, I’d broken my wrist falling from a swing. The shocking crack, the blackout pain. But even then, even with my wrist swelling with a cuff of trapped blood, I insisted I was fine, that it was nothing, and my parents believed me right up until the doctor showed them the x-ray, the bones snapped clean.”

96. “Of course the girls didn’t leave the ranch: there is a lot that can be borne. When I was nine, I’d broken my wrist falling from a swing. The shocking crack, the blackout pain. But even then, even with my wrist swelling with a cuff of trapped blood, I insisted I was fine, that it was nothing, and my parents believed me right up until the doctor showed them the x-ray, the bones snapped clean.”

Emma Cline Quote: “It was early June and I knew the solstice was at the end of the month: I didn’t say anything. The first of many silences.”

97. “It was early June and I knew the solstice was at the end of the month: I didn’t say anything. The first of many silences.”

Emma Cline Quote: “These were the cogent human labors, the daily tasks that staved larger panics...”

98. “These were the cogent human labors, the daily tasks that staved larger panics...”

Emma Cline Quote: “I liked Suzanne but I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was struggling to keep pace with her: it was an age when I often conflated liking people with feeling nervous around them.”

99. “I liked Suzanne but I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was struggling to keep pace with her: it was an age when I often conflated liking people with feeling nervous around them.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I didn’t really believe that friendship could be an end in itself, not just the background fuzz to the dramatics of boys loving or not loving you.”

100. “I didn’t really believe that friendship could be an end in itself, not just the background fuzz to the dramatics of boys loving or not loving you.”

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