Quotes from 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, quote from I'll Be There

“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, quote from 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, quote from I'll Be There

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

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

“(...) Pero ¿qué se puede hacer cuando la persona de la que quieres huir eres tú misma?”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, quote from 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." (pg 331)”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, quote from 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, quote from I'll Be There

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