The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
It had an ascetic taste, like water gone sick. All the girls had ordered this, the drink of the female martyr.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
Maybe the lack of uniform made people more comfortable with the idea of another person being so deeply embedded in their life,
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)
in the harsh sunlight,
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
maybe Alex saw hatred everywhere, imagined it where it didn’t exist, and that was her problem, not theirs.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
Alex felt some camaraderie with the men—here, like she was, to perform.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
THE DAY WAS BRIGHT and the sky was clean.
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)
Why had she never tried that before, tried just telling the truth?