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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.”

151. “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.”

152. “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.”

153. “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.”

154. “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.”

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

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

156. “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.”

157. “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.”

158. “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.”

159. “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.”

160. “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.”

161. “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.”

162. “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?”

163. “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.”

164. “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.”

165. “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.”

166. “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.”

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

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.”

168. “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.”

169. “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.”

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

171. “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.”

172. “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.”

173. “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.”

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

175. “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.”

176. “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.”

177. “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.”

178. “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.”

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

Emma Cline Quote: “All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you – the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”

180. “All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you – the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”

Emma Cline Quote: “People just wanted to hear their own voices, your response a comma punctuating their monologue.”

181. “People just wanted to hear their own voices, your response a comma punctuating their monologue.”

Emma Cline Quote: “There was a demented dignity to their resistance – none of them had run. Even at the end, the girls had been stronger than Russell.”

182. “There was a demented dignity to their resistance – none of them had run. Even at the end, the girls had been stronger than Russell.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I tried to save up things to tell him, combing through my days for something to provoke a glint of interest. It didn’t occur to me, until I was an adult, that it was strange to know so much about him when he seemed to know nothing about me.”

183. “I tried to save up things to tell him, combing through my days for something to provoke a glint of interest. It didn’t occur to me, until I was an adult, that it was strange to know so much about him when he seemed to know nothing about me.”

Emma Cline Quote: “When I caught her eye, she seemed to retreat. I hadn’t thought, until that moment, that she might be nervous about me and Russell. A new feeling of power flexed within me a quick tightening of ribbon, so unfamiliar I didn’t recognize it.”

184. “When I caught her eye, she seemed to retreat. I hadn’t thought, until that moment, that she might be nervous about me and Russell. A new feeling of power flexed within me a quick tightening of ribbon, so unfamiliar I didn’t recognize it.”

Emma Cline Quote: “It was as easy as this – I’d entered a possibility that had always been there.”

185. “It was as easy as this – I’d entered a possibility that had always been there.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Because who else had loved her? Who had ever held her in their arms and told her that he heart, beating away in her chest, was there on purpose?”

186. “Because who else had loved her? Who had ever held her in their arms and told her that he heart, beating away in her chest, was there on purpose?”

Emma Cline Quote: “And who would my father have then, to make money for, to bring dessert home to? I imagined him opening the door on the empty apartment after a long day at work. How the rooms would be as he’d left them, undisturbed by another person’s living. And how there would be a moment, before he flicked on the light, when he might imagine a different life revealed within the darkness, something besides the lonely borders of the couch, the cushions still holding the shape of his own sleepy body.”

187. “And who would my father have then, to make money for, to bring dessert home to? I imagined him opening the door on the empty apartment after a long day at work. How the rooms would be as he’d left them, undisturbed by another person’s living. And how there would be a moment, before he flicked on the light, when he might imagine a different life revealed within the darkness, something besides the lonely borders of the couch, the cushions still holding the shape of his own sleepy body.”

Emma Cline Quote: “My father had always been in charge of pool maintenance – skimming the surface with a net, heaping wet leaves into a pile. The colored vials he used to test chlorine levels. He’d never been that assiduous with upkeep, but the pool had gotten bad since he’d left. Salamanders idling around the filter.”

188. “My father had always been in charge of pool maintenance – skimming the surface with a net, heaping wet leaves into a pile. The colored vials he used to test chlorine levels. He’d never been that assiduous with upkeep, but the pool had gotten bad since he’d left. Salamanders idling around the filter.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Because that was there even when love wasn’t – the net of family, the purity of habit and home.”

189. “Because that was there even when love wasn’t – the net of family, the purity of habit and home.”

Emma Cline Quote: “People like her mother or the entrepreneurs who came on the show, who dreamed so fervently of becoming rich: they wanted to be fussed over like this, to have murmured compliments let loose in the air around their closed eyes. They wanted to have the power in every interaction tilted decisively in their direction.”

190. “People like her mother or the entrepreneurs who came on the show, who dreamed so fervently of becoming rich: they wanted to be fussed over like this, to have murmured compliments let loose in the air around their closed eyes. They wanted to have the power in every interaction tilted decisively in their direction.”

Emma Cline Quote: “But that had been Alex’s immediate thought how easy it would be to take things, out here. All sorts of things. The bikes leaning against the fence. The bags unattended on towels. The cars left unlocked, no one wanting to carry their keys on the beach. A system that existed only because everyone believed they were among people like themselves.”

191. “But that had been Alex’s immediate thought how easy it would be to take things, out here. All sorts of things. The bikes leaning against the fence. The bags unattended on towels. The cars left unlocked, no one wanting to carry their keys on the beach. A system that existed only because everyone believed they were among people like themselves.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I waited to be told what was good about me. I wondered later if this was why there were so many more women than men at the ranch. All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you – the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”

192. “I waited to be told what was good about me. I wondered later if this was why there were so many more women than men at the ranch. All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you – the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I waited to be told what was good about me.”

193. “I waited to be told what was good about me.”

Emma Cline Quote: “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.”

194. “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.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I could see it meant something to her, me living in the nice part of town, but I couldn’t imagine what, beyond the vague dislike for the rich that all young people had. Mashing up the wealthy and the media and the government into an indistinct vessel of evil, perpetrators of the grand hoax.”

195. “I could see it meant something to her, me living in the nice part of town, but I couldn’t imagine what, beyond the vague dislike for the rich that all young people had. Mashing up the wealthy and the media and the government into an indistinct vessel of evil, perpetrators of the grand hoax.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Her face answered all its own questions.”

196. “Her face answered all its own questions.”

Emma Cline Quote: “How impotent my anger was, a surge with no place to land, and how familiar that was: my feelings strangled inside me, like little half-formed children, bitter and bristling.”

197. “How impotent my anger was, a surge with no place to land, and how familiar that was: my feelings strangled inside me, like little half-formed children, bitter and bristling.”

Emma Cline Quote: “She simply looked at me, her watchful face on mine, as if she could take in my words and make a home for them.”

198. “She simply looked at me, her watchful face on mine, as if she could take in my words and make a home for them.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The fumes of cruciferous vegetables, roiling in plastic bags. Nothing.”

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

Emma Cline Quote: “Any secret you kept made the other person, no matter what, seem stupid, because why didn’t they figure it out? And soon enough you thought to yourself, Why do I love someone who’s so stupid?”

200. “Any secret you kept made the other person, no matter what, seem stupid, because why didn’t they figure it out? And soon enough you thought to yourself, Why do I love someone who’s so stupid?”

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