"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of petty kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the border of some crazy cliff. What I accept to do, I have to catch everybody if they commencement to go over the cliff - I hateful if they're running and they don't await where they're going I have to come up out from somewhere and grab them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know information technology's crazy, but that's the only affair I'd really like to exist." ― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"That'southward the thing about girls. Every fourth dimension they do something pretty, even if they're not much to expect at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They tin drive you lot crazy. They really tin can." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"When yous're dead, they really fix you upwardly. I hope to hell when I do dice somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a agglomeration of flowers on your breadbasket on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you lot're dead? Nobody." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"If a girl looks peachy when she meets yous, who gives a damn if she's belatedly?" ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"I was trying to experience some kind of good-adieu. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't fifty-fifty know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it'due south a sad skilful-bye or a bad practiced-bye, but when I get out a place I similar to know I'1000 leaving it. If you don't you feel even worse." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished communicable those two fish, the birds would notwithstanding be on their manner south, the deers would still exist drinking out of that h2o hole, with their pretty antlers and they're pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would nevertheless exist weaving that aforementioned coating. Nobody's exist different. The only thing that would be unlike would exist you. Not that you'd be then much older or anything. It wouldn't exist that, exactly. You'd only exist unlike, that's all. You'd take an overcoat this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the concluding time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you lot'd have a substitute taking the course, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or y'all'd but passed by ane of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you lot'd exist dissimilar in some style—I tin't explicate what I mean. And even if I could, I'grand non sure I'd feel like information technology." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"If you do something too good, and so, subsequently a while, if you don't sentry information technology, you showtime showing off. And so you're non every bit practiced any more." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sunday out or annihilation, and you felt similar you were disappearing every fourth dimension you crossed a road." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Grand. In that location's a word I really hate. Information technology's a phony. I could puke every time I hear information technology." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"If you lot had a one thousand thousand years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It'southward impossible." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Information technology'due south partly true, too, but information technology isn't all truthful. People always think something's all true." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they take to go on moving their mitt all the fourth dimension, as if they were afraid they'd diameter you or something. Jane was different. Nosotros'd become into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd kickoff property easily, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. Y'all never even worried, with Jane, whether your paw was sweaty or not. All y'all knew was, you were happy. You actually were." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"It's non besides bad when the sun's out, just the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it." ― J.D. Salinger , The Catcher in the Rye
"I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Fundamental Park, down near Key Park S. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got dwelling house, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them abroad to a zoo or something. Or if they but flew away." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Anyway, I'thousand sort of glad they've got the atomic flop invented. If at that place's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on acme of information technology. I'll volunteer for information technology, I swear to God I volition." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"If you lot really want to hear about information technology, the beginning thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, only I don't feel like going into information technology, if you want to know the truth." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Information technology'south really too bad that and then much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes." ― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to detest everybody in the earth, I swear y'all did." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"People never think anything is anything actually. I'm getting goddam sick of information technology." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"I think if you don't actually like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if y'all do similar her, and then yous're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, y'all ought to exist careful well-nigh doing crumby stuff to it, similar squirting water all over it. It's really also bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Every time you mention some guy that'due south strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all— and when yous mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, merely that withal doesn't keep him from existence a bounder, in my opinion." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Just because somebody's dead, yous don't just cease liking them-especially if they were most a thousand times nicer than the people you lot know that're alive and all." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went with them a couple of times, but I cut it out. In the beginning place, I don't enjoy seeing him in that crazy cemetery. Surrounded past dead guys and tombstones and all. It wasn't too bad when the sun was out, but twice—twice—we were there when it started to rain. It was awful. It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. Information technology rained all over the place. All the visitors that were visiting the cemetery started running like hell over to their cars. That's what most drove me crazy. All the visitors could get in their cars and plough on their radios and all and then go someplace nice for dinner—everybody except Allie. I couldn't stand information technology. I know it's simply his trunk and all that's in the cemetery, and his soul'southward in Sky and all that crap, but I couldn't stand information technology anyhow. I just wished he wasn't at that place." ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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