Top 200 Emma Cline Quotes (2024 Update)
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Emma Cline Quote: “Her face as pale and blameless as a lesser moon. –.”

101. “Her face as pale and blameless as a lesser moon. –.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Money is ego, and people won’t give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold on to it like a blanket. They don’t realize it keeps them slaves. It’s sick” “What’s funny is that as soon as you give everything away, as soon as you say, Here, take it – that’s when you really have everything”.”

102. “Money is ego, and people won’t give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold on to it like a blanket. They don’t realize it keeps them slaves. It’s sick” “What’s funny is that as soon as you give everything away, as soon as you say, Here, take it – that’s when you really have everything”.”

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, and I saw right away that the black-haired one was the prettiest.”

103. “It was an age when I’d immediately scan and rank other girls, keeping up a constant tally of how I fell short, and I saw right away that the black-haired one was the prettiest.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I was jealous of that trust, that someone else could stitch the empty parts of your life together so you felt there was a net under you, linking each day to the next.”

104. “I was jealous of that trust, that someone else could stitch the empty parts of your life together so you felt there was a net under you, linking each day to the next.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I noticed their hair first, long and uncombed. Then their jewelry catching the sun. The three of them were far enough away that I saw only the periphery of their features, but it didn’t matter-I knew they were different from everyone else in the park... These long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. Like royalty in exile.”

105. “I noticed their hair first, long and uncombed. Then their jewelry catching the sun. The three of them were far enough away that I saw only the periphery of their features, but it didn’t matter-I knew they were different from everyone else in the park... These long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. Like royalty in exile.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The hidden world that adolescents inhabit, surfacing from time to time only when forced, training their parents to expect their absence.”

106. “The hidden world that adolescents inhabit, surfacing from time to time only when forced, training their parents to expect their absence.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn’t. The nights when I flicked off the bedside lamp and found myself in the heedless, lonely dark. The times I thought, with a horrified twist, that none of this was a gift. Suzanne got the redemption that followed a conviction... I got the snuffed-out story of the bystander, a fugitive without a crime, half hoping and half terrified that no one was ever coming for me.”

107. “I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn’t. The nights when I flicked off the bedside lamp and found myself in the heedless, lonely dark. The times I thought, with a horrified twist, that none of this was a gift. Suzanne got the redemption that followed a conviction... I got the snuffed-out story of the bystander, a fugitive without a crime, half hoping and half terrified that no one was ever coming for me.”

Emma Cline Quote: “There was only a week before I had to leave for boarding school, and seven days seemed too long to be in my father’s apartment, seven dinners to soldier through, but, at the same time, unfairly brief – I wouldn’t have time for habits, for context. I just had to wait.”

108. “There was only a week before I had to leave for boarding school, and seven days seemed too long to be in my father’s apartment, seven dinners to soldier through, but, at the same time, unfairly brief – I wouldn’t have time for habits, for context. I just had to wait.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Ik mocht haar op een vanzelfsprekende manier, zoals je ook nooit nadenkt over je eigen handen.”

109. “Ik mocht haar op een vanzelfsprekende manier, zoals je ook nooit nadenkt over je eigen handen.”

Emma Cline Quote: “People, it turned out, were mostly fine with being victimized in small doses. In fact, they seemed to expect a certain amount of deception, allowed for a tolerable margin of manipulation in their relationships.”

110. “People, it turned out, were mostly fine with being victimized in small doses. In fact, they seemed to expect a certain amount of deception, allowed for a tolerable margin of manipulation in their relationships.”

Emma Cline Quote: “A distanza di anni avrei capito questo: quant’era impersonale e disorientato il nostro amore, che mandava segnali in tutto l’universo sperando di trovare qualcuno che desse accoglienza e forma ai nostri desideri.”

111. “A distanza di anni avrei capito questo: quant’era impersonale e disorientato il nostro amore, che mandava segnali in tutto l’universo sperando di trovare qualcuno che desse accoglienza e forma ai nostri desideri.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I didn’t tell anyone because I wanted to keep her safe. Because who else had loved her? Who had ever held Suzanne in their arms and told her that her heart, beating away in her chest, was there on purpose?”

112. “I didn’t tell anyone because I wanted to keep her safe. Because who else had loved her? 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 Quote: “He’d asked me oddly formal questions, like a distant uncle who knew me only as a series of secondhand facts: Evie is fourteen. Evie is short.”

113. “He’d asked me oddly formal questions, like a distant uncle who knew me only as a series of secondhand facts: Evie is fourteen. Evie is short.”

Emma Cline Quote: “A space opened up between us as soon as I started to notice these things, to catalog her shortcomings the way a boy would.”

114. “A space opened up between us as soon as I started to notice these things, to catalog her shortcomings the way a boy would.”

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

115. “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 Quote: “Per una ragazza era inevitabile: ci si rassegnava a qualunque risposta. Se ti incazzavi eri una pazza, se non reagivi eri una mignotta. L’unica cosa che potevi fare era sorridere dall’angolino in cui ti avevano incastrata. Stare allo scherzo anche se dello scherzo eri sempre la vittima.”

116. “Per una ragazza era inevitabile: ci si rassegnava a qualunque risposta. Se ti incazzavi eri una pazza, se non reagivi eri una mignotta. L’unica cosa che potevi fare era sorridere dall’angolino in cui ti avevano incastrata. Stare allo scherzo anche se dello scherzo eri sempre la vittima.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Alex had the sick sense that she was a ghost.”

117. “Alex had the sick sense that she was a ghost.”

Emma Cline Quote: “It made Alex uncomfortable, someone demanding love so overtly, showing all her cards. As if it were that easy, as if love were something you deserved and didn’t have to scramble to earn.”

118. “It made Alex uncomfortable, someone demanding love so overtly, showing all her cards. As if it were that easy, as if love were something you deserved and didn’t have to scramble to earn.”

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “The desperate optimism of the born again.”

120. “The desperate optimism of the born again.”

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

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

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 behind thoughtless impulse.”

122. “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 behind thoughtless impulse.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Illuminati communicated with one another. “Why would a secret.”

123. “Illuminati communicated with one another. “Why would a secret.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Suzanne was giddy from something, I could tell. Not alcohol. Something else, her pupils seeming to eat the iris, a flush lacing up her neck like a Victorian collar.”

124. “Suzanne was giddy from something, I could tell. Not alcohol. Something else, her pupils seeming to eat the iris, a flush lacing up her neck like a Victorian collar.”

Emma Cline Quote: “It was almost embarrassing how fervently George had believed that everything would continue to get better and better, life a steady accrual of successes, of moments becoming only more vivid and more pleasurable.”

125. “It was almost embarrassing how fervently George had believed that everything would continue to get better and better, life a steady accrual of successes, of moments becoming only more vivid and more pleasurable.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I was used to people speaking of my grandmother fondly. How they liked to perform their admiration, tell me that they’d grown up with her on their television screens, beamed into their living rooms like another, better, family member.”

126. “I was used to people speaking of my grandmother fondly. How they liked to perform their admiration, tell me that they’d grown up with her on their television screens, beamed into their living rooms like another, better, family member.”

Emma Cline Quote: “There are always places to go.”

127. “There are always places to go.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Her daughter who had always been good, even if that was more disappointing than being great.”

128. “Her daughter who had always been good, even if that was more disappointing than being great.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The cat was ill tempered, pink eyed, and unloved. Still, at least Paula had taken care of it. No one had ever thanked her. Didn’t she deserve a reward? Didn’t she deserve one good thing?”

129. “The cat was ill tempered, pink eyed, and unloved. Still, at least Paula had taken care of it. No one had ever thanked her. Didn’t she deserve a reward? Didn’t she deserve one good thing?”

Emma Cline Quote: “Alex could see Simon was no longer engaged, that he no longer felt implicated in whatever drama Alex was creating.”

130. “Alex could see Simon was no longer engaged, that he no longer felt implicated in whatever drama Alex was creating.”

Emma Cline Quote: “But then her formality quickly melted away, the veil of adulthood she wore temporarily as a costume.“-p. 273.”

131. “But then her formality quickly melted away, the veil of adulthood she wore temporarily as a costume.“-p. 273.”

Emma Cline Quote: “They throw something away and they still want it. That’s America.”

132. “They throw something away and they still want it. That’s America.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The ease of the moment before he pulled the trigger, how clean and winnowed the world must have seemed.”

133. “The ease of the moment before he pulled the trigger, how clean and winnowed the world must have seemed.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into.”

134. “The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into.”

Emma Cline Quote: “He could do that. Change himself to fit the person, like water taking shape off whatever vessel it was poured into. He could be all these things at once.”

135. “He could do that. Change himself to fit the person, like water taking shape off whatever vessel it was poured into. He could be all these things at once.”

Emma Cline Quote: “At the same time, she knew she would never go crazy – which was worse. She’d been almost jealous of the people she’d known in the city who’d totally cracked up, spiraled into some other realm. It was a relief to have the option to fully peace out of reality.”

136. “At the same time, she knew she would never go crazy – which was worse. She’d been almost jealous of the people she’d known in the city who’d totally cracked up, spiraled into some other realm. It was a relief to have the option to fully peace out of reality.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Can I take your plate?” I asked, too stunned to flinch. That was something I’d learned from my mother: revert to politeness. Cut pain with a gesture of civility. Like Jackie Kennedy. It was a virtue to that generation, an ability to divert discomfort, tamp it down with ceremony. But it was out of fashion now, and I saw something like disdain in his eyes when he handed me his plate. Though maybe that is something I imagined.”

137. “Can I take your plate?” I asked, too stunned to flinch. That was something I’d learned from my mother: revert to politeness. Cut pain with a gesture of civility. Like Jackie Kennedy. It was a virtue to that generation, an ability to divert discomfort, tamp it down with ceremony. But it was out of fashion now, and I saw something like disdain in his eyes when he handed me his plate. Though maybe that is something I imagined.”

Emma Cline Quote: “If anyone was questioning themselves, it was all under the surface, a filmy bubble drifting and popping in their brains. Their doubt growing weak as the particulars of a dream grow weak.”

138. “If anyone was questioning themselves, it was all under the surface, a filmy bubble drifting and popping in their brains. Their doubt growing weak as the particulars of a dream grow weak.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I’m on a diet where I just share al my food.”

139. “I’m on a diet where I just share al my food.”

Emma Cline Quote: “As if his mundane words would fool us, keep us from noticing how his glance dripped with filth.”

140. “As if his mundane words would fool us, keep us from noticing how his glance dripped with filth.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The club looked sparse, almost military, but no matter. It didn’t make a difference what was behind a rope, really, it just mattered that there was a rope. The people on the terrace needed the people walking past, just as the people walking past needed the people on the terrace.”

141. “The club looked sparse, almost military, but no matter. It didn’t make a difference what was behind a rope, really, it just mattered that there was a rope. The people on the terrace needed the people walking past, just as the people walking past needed the people on the terrace.”

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

142. “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 Quote: “Suzanne and the other girls had stopped being able to make certain judgments, the unused muscle of their ego growing slack and useless. It had been so long since any of them had occupied a world where right and wrong existed in any real way.”

143. “Suzanne and the other girls had stopped being able to make certain judgments, the unused muscle of their ego growing slack and useless. It had been so long since any of them had occupied a world where right and wrong existed in any real way.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Like she and I were occupying the same song.”

144. “Like she and I were occupying the same song.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I had spoken to my father a few times on the phone. It had seemed painful for him, too. He’d ask me oddly formal questions, like a distant uncle who only knew me as a series of secondhand facts: Evie is fourteen, Evie is short. 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.”

145. “I had spoken to my father a few times on the phone. It had seemed painful for him, too. He’d ask me oddly formal questions, like a distant uncle who only knew me as a series of secondhand facts: Evie is fourteen, Evie is short. 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: “People like Helen loved to display the artifacts of creativity as if that implicated her in the process.”

146. “People like Helen loved to display the artifacts of creativity as if that implicated her in the process.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Misschien wist ik ergens wel welke kant het op dreigde te gaan, een glimp verzonken in de duisternis: misschien had ik een voorgevoel van de richting maar was er toch gewoon in meegegaan.”

147. “Misschien wist ik ergens wel welke kant het op dreigde te gaan, een glimp verzonken in de duisternis: misschien had ik een voorgevoel van de richting maar was er toch gewoon in meegegaan.”

Emma Cline Quote: “But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat raising vapours of leather. The warped image of myself in the side mirrors, so I caught only the quantity of hair, the freckled skin of my shoulder. I took on the shape of a girl.”

148. “But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat raising vapours of leather. The warped image of myself in the side mirrors, so I caught only the quantity of hair, the freckled skin of my shoulder. I took on the shape of a girl.”

Emma Cline Quote: “She searched until there was only searching left.”

149. “She searched until there was only searching left.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I was only just starting to learn how to rig certain information with apology. How to mock myself before other people could.”

150. “I was only just starting to learn how to rig certain information with apology. How to mock myself before other people could.”

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