The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
Occasionally she believed that she and Simon were actually in something like love.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
Why had she never tried that before, tried just telling the truth?
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
People, it turned out, were mostly fine with being victimized in small doses. In fact, they seemed to expect a certain amount of deception, allowed for a tolerable margin of manipulation in their relationships.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
Maybe she was the ghost she had always imagined herself to be.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
As in other moments, Alex found herself smiling for no reason.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
the suede heels she’d had resoled multiple times.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
So many nights she remembered only as a sour feeling,
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
“I’ll get you one. My treat.” Easy to feel magnanimous, another round on 223.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
You were the exception, until you weren’t.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
THE DAY WAS BRIGHT and the sky was clean.