Emma Cline
Emma Cline is an acclaimed American author best known for her debut novel "The Girls," which became a bestseller and was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Born in 1989 in California, she has a background in creative writing from Columbia University. Cline's work often explores themes of adolescence and identity. Her compelling narrative style has earned her recognition as a distinctive voice in contemporary literature.
Book summaries for books written by Emma Cline
Quotes
Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love.
I was beloved now. And it never went away, that feeling.
I was always drawn to the edges of things, to the places where the rules were less clear.
That was part of being a girl - you were resigned to whatever feedback the world provided.
It was like she was trying to divine my secrets, the things that made me different and unlovable.
Girls were always disappearing. They slipped like mercury through my fingers.
They were like paper flowers - pretty, but easily torn.
It was easier for me to understand the shadows than the light.
I was caught in the orbit of something bigger than myself.
She had the power to make me feel like nothing, like a ghost slipping through the world unnoticed.
It was a strange, lonely feeling, to be loved by someone who didn't know you.
The world was full of things I could neither understand nor control.