I'll Be There Quotes

“The way to make the pain go away was to put your mind somewhere else. you let your mind leave and float above you, where it could watch you.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Emily just knew that the grocery store clerk’s cousin had slipped on a bath mat and fallen out a second-story open window only to be saved because the woman landed on a discarded mattress.

But what interested Emily most about the incident was how the cousin had subsequently met a man in physical therapy who introduced her to his half brother who she ended up marrying and then running over with her car a year later after a heated argument. And that man, it was discovered, had been the one to dump the mattress in her yard.

He’d saved her so that she could later cripple him.

Emily found that not ironic but intriguing.

Because everything, she believed, was connected.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Making a connection to a person can be the scariest thing that ever happens to you.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Hadn't someone once said love was attention? No more, no less. There was attention, and there was obsession, and there was possession.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Time for Sam was about the position of the sun. It was about feeling hunger in his stomach. It was about the temperature just after dawn. Time wasn't measured in minutes or even hours. It had a rhythm that had to do with days and seasons, animals and insects, flowers and plants.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Riddle slept like a small child, dead to the world.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“When you spend ten years being invisible, when you no longer know where you were born and are not even sure where you were born (it had to have been the summer, because there were memories of an ice-cream cake and running outside through a sprinkler), when your father changed your last name and can't remember clearly what your mother even looked like, a room with that many strangers was as terrifying as a bed of sharp knives.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“(...) al no ser consiente de todo lo que ignoraba, no sufría por ello.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Sam was relieved. He'd been fighting thinking about Emily, and he'd lost. And now that he'd admitted defeat, it felt like winning. He never felt like he won at anything, so that further complicated things.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Bobby came from a family who believed that what you see is not what you get. They were a family that knew dirty laundry, and, as an occupational hazard, believed in conspiracy. They were always looking for clues and always finding them.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“For Sam, she was like someone from another planet. Planet Contentment. She had energy and enthusiasm, and she had to never have seen what he'd seen, because she was so open and trusting.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Suddenly it was as if he'd changed teams. He was on the other side of an equation. The world now seemed bigger. He wondered if that's what happened when people could see you.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Sam watched her flee. He understood completely.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“When you first met Clarence Border, you understood you were talking to someone who was anxious. His thin body seemed to crackle with energy. His fingers fluttered at his sides when he spoke, moving like he was playing an invisible piano that must have been located on the tops of his body thighs. It wasn't that he twitched. He was more in control than that. It was that he was hardwired to run in the blink of an eye.
And to take you with him.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“(...) Pero ¿qué se puede hacer cuando la persona de la que quieres huir eres tú misma?”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“¿Cómo se olvida a alguien que ha cambiado tu forma de ver el mundo? Emily no tenía idea. Pero había una cosa que sí sabía: no se sustituye a esa persona con otra cualquiera.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Si estamos hechos el uno para el otro, seguro que no durará mucho. Algo lo destruirá.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“¿Cuál era el secreto de una relación? Ta vez todo dependía de que lo que otra persona siente por nosotros nos haga sentir bien con nosotros mismos. Sonaba erevesado, pero era posible. A lo mejor era verdad que no somos más que espejos para los demás y que lo único que queremos todos es que nos digan lo fantástico que somos. Y tal vez ese sentimiento se ve reforzado si todos los demás también consideran guapa, inteligente o única a esa persona que nos llena de halagos. Pero si eso fuera así, el único deseo de todo el mundo sería sentirse especial y obtener reconocimiento por ello. ¿O había algo más? ¿Había algún ingrediente intangible en la conexión entre dos personas? ¿Había en una relación algo más que el refuerzo de egos respectivos?”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“¿Por qué las chicas solas eran siempre una especie de imán para los tíos babosos? ¿De verdad pensaban que a ellas les gustaba ese tipo de atención? ¿O no era más que una forma de reírse de ellas?”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Emily se dio media vuelta y las lágrimas le anegaron los ojos nublándole la vista. No había un manual de instrucciones. Esto era la vida.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Mucho más que consuelo lo que necesitaban las personas con problemas era que alguien les indicara una línea que seguir, una puerta que atravesar y una tarea que completar.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Porque esta vez sabía que tenían opciones. Sabían que podían huir, salir corriendo, negarse a acompañarle. Pero ellos sentían que, en realidad, esas opciones no existían. Porque si le cogías apego a algo, te lo quitaban; si le dabas cara, te la partía,; y si alzabas la voz, te silenciaban.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Todo el mundo sabe que no se puede juzgar a un libro por su portada, pero a la hora de la verdad, lo que cuenta es la apariencia. No falla.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Esto es lo que Sam estaba haciendo por ella, pensó; le estaba ofreciendo una nueva perspectiva de su propio mundo.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“Se mueven todos juntos como si fueran uno solo. Por que son muchos, pero saben una cosa: hay que permanecer unidos.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There

“(...) la lección aprendida con aquella experiencia se volatizaría sin dejar huella, como tantas otras cosas que habían ido y venido en una vida dictada por las decisiones erráticas de su padre.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, I'll Be There