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

101. “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.”

102. “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.”

103. “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: “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.”

104. “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: “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?”

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

106. “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: “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.”

107. “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: “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.”

108. “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...”

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

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

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

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.”

111. “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.”

112. “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.”

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “Her face as pale and blameless as a lesser moon. –.”

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

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

115. “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.”

116. “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: “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.”

117. “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: “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.”

118. “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.”

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

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

Emma Cline Quote: “Hundreds of years ago, their parents might have abandoned their babies in the woods. Instead, the neglect was stretched out over many years, a slow-motion withering. The kids were still abandoned, still neglected in the woods, but the forest was lovely.”

120. “Hundreds of years ago, their parents might have abandoned their babies in the woods. Instead, the neglect was stretched out over many years, a slow-motion withering. The kids were still abandoned, still neglected in the woods, but the forest was lovely.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I’d forgotten that doper part of teenage girls: the desire for love flashing in her face so directly that it embarrassed me.”

121. “I’d forgotten that doper part of teenage girls: the desire for love flashing in her face so directly that it embarrassed me.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Ze drijven iedereen de woonkamer in. Het moment dat de doodsbange mensen de prettige alledaagsheid van hun bestaan beseffen – het eerste slokje sinaasappelsap, de steile helling genomen op de fiets – is al voorbij. Hun gezichten transformeren als luiken die opengaan; het ontsluiten achter de ogen.”

122. “Ze drijven iedereen de woonkamer in. Het moment dat de doodsbange mensen de prettige alledaagsheid van hun bestaan beseffen – het eerste slokje sinaasappelsap, de steile helling genomen op de fiets – is al voorbij. Hun gezichten transformeren als luiken die opengaan; het ontsluiten achter de ogen.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Cease to exist, he urged us, disappear the self. And all of us nodding like golden retrievers, the reality of our existence making us cavalier, eager to dismantle what seemed permanent.”

123. “Cease to exist, he urged us, disappear the self. And all of us nodding like golden retrievers, the reality of our existence making us cavalier, eager to dismantle what seemed permanent.”

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.”

124. “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.”

125. “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: “That was the first time I ever saw Suzanne – her black hair marking her, even at a distance, as different, her smile at me direct and assessing. I couldn’t explain it to myself, the wrench I got from looking at her. She seemed as strange and raw as those flowers that bloom in lurid explosion once every five years, the gaudy, prickling tease that was almost the same thing as beauty. And what had the girl seen when she looked at me?”

126. “That was the first time I ever saw Suzanne – her black hair marking her, even at a distance, as different, her smile at me direct and assessing. I couldn’t explain it to myself, the wrench I got from looking at her. She seemed as strange and raw as those flowers that bloom in lurid explosion once every five years, the gaudy, prickling tease that was almost the same thing as beauty. And what had the girl seen when she looked at me?”

Emma Cline Quote: “The perfect sheets, the chilly rooms: they were stupid things, taken one by one, but all together they were a convincing substitute for a life. One where suffering seemed to have no place, the idea of pain or misfortune starting to fuzz out and seem less likely. And who could argue with that, with wanting to be protected?”

127. “The perfect sheets, the chilly rooms: they were stupid things, taken one by one, but all together they were a convincing substitute for a life. One where suffering seemed to have no place, the idea of pain or misfortune starting to fuzz out and seem less likely. And who could argue with that, with wanting to be protected?”

Emma Cline Quote: “En dat was het verschil tussen mij en het meisje met het donkere haar – haar gezicht beantwoordde alle vragen die het opriep.”

128. “En dat was het verschil tussen mij en het meisje met het donkere haar – haar gezicht beantwoordde alle vragen die het opriep.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Linda read a lot: She read books about angels and saints and rich white women from the past with eccentric habits. She read books by the mothers of school shooters and books by healers who said that cancer was really a self-love problem.”

129. “Linda read a lot: She read books about angels and saints and rich white women from the past with eccentric habits. She read books by the mothers of school shooters and books by healers who said that cancer was really a self-love problem.”

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

130. “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.”

131. “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.”

132. “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: “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.”

133. “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.”

134. “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: “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.”

135. “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: “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.”

136. “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.”

137. “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.”

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

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

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

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

140. “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.”

141. “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.”

142. “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.”

143. “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.”

144. “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.”

145. “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?”

146. “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.”

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

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

148. “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.”

149. “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.”

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

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