“I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.” — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of… — Mark David Chapman Copy Share Image
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who,… — Stephen Metcalf Copy Share Image
I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“[Ackley] took another look at my hat . . . “Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her.… — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading… — Beth Bailey Copy Share Image
“That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." "I know… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
“The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
![“[Ackley] took another look at my hat . . . “Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake,” he said. “That’s a deer shooting hat.” “Like hell it is.” I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. “This is a people shooting hat,” I said. “I…” quote by J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e5/j-d-salinger-560_holden-caulfield_ackley-took-another-look-at-my-hat-up-ho_406316.png)
![“I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only…” quote by Winona Ryder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/666/winona-ryder-1469_adolescence_i-remember-realizing-when-i-did-little-w_41784.jpg)
