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Emma Cline

The Girls

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  • b6113302670has quoted7 years ago
    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.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    Sasha was quiet. Her silence seemed like a kind of love.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    My grandmother had told me about getting movie roles — how quickly she was plucked from a group. “That’s the difference,” she’d told me. “All the other girls thought the director was making the choice. But it was really me telling the di
  • edyxcx1has quoted5 years ago
    Who had ever held Suzanne in their arms and told her that her heart, beating away in her chest, was there on purpose?
  • edyxcx1has quoted5 years ago
    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.
  • edyxcx1has quoted5 years ago
    I believed, in the way of adolescents, in the absolute correctness and superiority of my love. My own feelings forming the definition.
  • edyxcx1has quoted5 years ago
    Break down the self, offer yourself up like dust to the universe.
  • edyxcx1has quoted5 years ago
    believing love could come from any direction. So you wouldn’t be disappointed if not enough came from the direction you’d hoped.
  • edyxcx1has quoted5 years ago
    The freedom of being so young that no one expected anything from me.
  • edyxcx1has quoted5 years ago
    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.
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