Quotes about Holden

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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, — 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 — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossibl — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Happiness is not in things — happiness is in you.
Nothing in the world can make you happy — everything in the world can encourage you to be happy
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little k — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the h — 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 wi — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said th — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases an — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Mahtab looked out of the window at the moon clearing the rooftops, bathing everything around in its silver light. She si — Azin Sametipour, Tehran Moonlight
We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narrativ — John Green
A dark voice within warned him to stop, but Aaron brushed it off. He flashed Holden a patronizing smile. “All right, the — Deidre Huesmann, Call of the Lycan
That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they' — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls — J.D. Salinger, Cliffs Notes on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye