The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes Quotes

“One day he’ll wake up and realize you don’t love him in that way.”
“Maybe. But I need him, Jo.”
“Needing someone isn’t the same as loving them. And when you finally know that you don’t need him and can be on your own, what are you going to do?”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“People respond to authentic celebrities—or what they perceive as authentic. They are too stupid to realize that most celebrities wear one face in public and another face at home.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“Crushes are strange things; they narrow rooms to corridors, reduce our senses to just the sound of a deep breath. If this were a movie, the entire warehouse would constrict to show just him and just me, the rest of the crowd dissipating into smoke.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“My point is this: times change and people change, but celebrities are not allowed to leave the box that we’ve been painted into. There are a few exceptions that everyone allows, like the sinner who becomes a saint—usually after having respectable children—or the sexpot who ages gracefully into a bombshell octogenarian, but for the most part, if the world says you’re a five-foot-one, petite, rosy-cheeked, lovable woman, you remain one for as long as you can.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“There’s nothing the public loves more than to tear down someone who was once their idol.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“Just bring that sass, Miss Cass.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“You may not be friends after all of this, but you will be like family. And you will have to learn to trust one another, because the rest of the world will love you and hate you and support you and then turn on you. You can rely only on one another. Do you understand?”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“It’s just, her mind fought against her.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“But we’re also friends, right?”
“What, even after all the mean stuff I’ve said to you?”
“Even after that.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“And yeah, sometimes I just need to feel okay. And you make me feel that.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“I watched her go. I’d miss her barking orders at me early in the morning, I’d miss her indignant sighs when we rode in the SUV together. I would just . . . miss living with her, as strange as that seemed. The realization streaked across my mind, unbidden, surprising me.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“Listen, Cassidy.” She grew serious. “No matter what you hear, fame and power usually don’t change a person. It amplifies who they are already. Some people grow more sinister with money. Some people grow greedier. And some people do good things.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“We’d been in this room for less than twenty minutes and I didn’t know these girls at all, but I could sense the lingering sweetness of our harmony, like a perfume hovering in the air. I knew we could do great things.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

“Don’t sit on your ass. It’s not going to happen just because you’re good. You’re going to have to go after it.”
― Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes