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“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, The Girls

“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, The Girls

“You can call me Death. And I will call you mine.”
― Karina Halle, River of Shadows

“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, The Girls