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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.”

151. “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.”

152. “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.”

153. “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.”

154. “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.”

155. “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.”

156. “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.”

157. “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.”

158. “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.”

159. “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.”

160. “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.”

161. “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.”

162. “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.”

163. “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.”

164. “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.”

165. “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.”

166. “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.”

167. “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.”

168. “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?”

169. “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.”

170. “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.”

171. “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.”

172. “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.”

173. “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.”

174. “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.”

175. “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.”

176. “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.”

177. “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.”

178. “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.”

179. “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.”

180. “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.”

181. “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.”

182. “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?”

183. “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?”

Emma Cline Quote: “I was happy to twist the meanings, willfully misread the symbols. Doing what Suzanne asked seemed like the best gift I could give her, a way to unlock her own reciprocal feelings. And she was trapped, in her way, just like I was, but I never saw that, shifting easily in the directions she prompted for me. Like the wooden toy, clattering with the silver ball I’d tilted and urged into the painted holes, trying for the winning drop.”

184. “I was happy to twist the meanings, willfully misread the symbols. Doing what Suzanne asked seemed like the best gift I could give her, a way to unlock her own reciprocal feelings. And she was trapped, in her way, just like I was, but I never saw that, shifting easily in the directions she prompted for me. Like the wooden toy, clattering with the silver ball I’d tilted and urged into the painted holes, trying for the winning drop.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The constant project of our girl selves seeming to require odd and precise attentions.”

185. “The constant project of our girl selves seeming to require odd and precise attentions.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I didn’t want to breathe, feeling like it would be an imposition on him, even the fact of my ribs rising and falling too much of a bother.”

186. “I didn’t want to breathe, feeling like it would be an imposition on him, even the fact of my ribs rising and falling too much of a bother.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The same fervor as those people who populated the online forums that never seemed to slow down or die. They jostled for ownership, adopting the same knowing tone, a veneer of scholarship masking the essential ghoulishness of the endeavor. What were they looking for among all the banalities?”

187. “The same fervor as those people who populated the online forums that never seemed to slow down or die. They jostled for ownership, adopting the same knowing tone, a veneer of scholarship masking the essential ghoulishness of the endeavor. What were they looking for among all the banalities?”

Emma Cline Quote: “But then, like all feelings, it passed.”

188. “But then, like all feelings, it passed.”

Emma Cline Quote: “A problem of emotional excess, psychological gout.”

189. “A problem of emotional excess, psychological gout.”

Emma Cline Quote: “But Suzanne got the worst of it. Depraved. Evil. Her sneaky beauty didn’t photograph well. She looked feral and meager, like she might have existed only to kill. Talking.”

190. “But Suzanne got the worst of it. Depraved. Evil. Her sneaky beauty didn’t photograph well. She looked feral and meager, like she might have existed only to kill. Talking.”

Emma Cline Quote: “Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots.”

191. “Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots.”

Emma Cline Quote: “I’d always hated martini glasses – the stem and the funny shape seemed embarassing, like the adults were trying too hard to be adults.”

192. “I’d always hated martini glasses – the stem and the funny shape seemed embarassing, like the adults were trying too hard to be adults.”

Emma Cline Quote: “They expected life would march on. Things had to be done, and I got shunted along their logistics with the numbness that had taken the place of whatever had made me Evie. My love of cinnamon hard candies, what I dreamed – that had all been exchanged for this new self, the changeling who nodded when spoken to and rinsed and dried the dinner plates, hands reddening in the hot water.”

193. “They expected life would march on. Things had to be done, and I got shunted along their logistics with the numbness that had taken the place of whatever had made me Evie. My love of cinnamon hard candies, what I dreamed – that had all been exchanged for this new self, the changeling who nodded when spoken to and rinsed and dried the dinner plates, hands reddening in the hot water.”

Emma Cline Quote: “That really makes me sad. They’ve tried to ruin this beautiful, special girl. They’ve made her sad. Just because they are.”

194. “That really makes me sad. They’ve tried to ruin this beautiful, special girl. They’ve made her sad. Just because they are.”

Emma Cline Quote: “A buzzing in his head, a tight skull – certain refrains of songs looped and he said them aloud and smiled.”

195. “A buzzing in his head, a tight skull – certain refrains of songs looped and he said them aloud and smiled.”

Emma Cline Quote: “This might have been enough – to watch him sleep as a parent would, indulging the privilege of imagining happy dreams.”

196. “This might have been enough – to watch him sleep as a parent would, indulging the privilege of imagining happy dreams.”

Emma Cline Quote: “So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. 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. There.”

197. “So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. 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. There.”

Emma Cline Quote: “The possibility of judgment being passed on me supplanted any worries or questions I might have about Russell. 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.”

198. “The possibility of judgment being passed on me supplanted any worries or questions I might have about Russell. 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: “He was taking care of himself, because there was nothing to do in this life but take care of himself, make his lunch, and brush his teeth, and try to enjoy his days off. Didn’t he know to hope for something better?”

199. “He was taking care of himself, because there was nothing to do in this life but take care of himself, make his lunch, and brush his teeth, and try to enjoy his days off. Didn’t he know to hope for something better?”

Emma Cline Quote: “People, it turned out, were mostly fine with being victimized in small doses.”

200. “People, it turned out, were mostly fine with being victimized in small doses.”

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