J.D. Salinger

“We are required only to keep looking.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I like to chew candles.”

— J.D. Salinger

“One thing? One thing I like? Okay.”

— J.D. Salinger

“You beautiful little moron.”

— J.D. Salinger

“[..] you dirty little bookworm.”

— J.D. Salinger

“An Aesthetic Saint”

— J.D. Salinger

“ Were most of your stars out? ”

— J.D. Salinger

“She was always reading, and she read very good books.”

— J.D. Salinger

“You never get to sit next to the window any more when you're married.”

— J.D. Salinger

“My opinions are all too frequently too damn harsh for words.”

— J.D. Salinger

“How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?”

— J.D. Salinger

“Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll start missing everybody.”

— J.D. Salinger

“People always think something's all true.”

— J.D. Salinger

“No odio a todos. Los odio unas cuantas horas o unos cuantos días, pero después se me pasa”

— J.D. Salinger

“But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody - you can be a good guy and do it.”

— J.D. Salinger

“They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all-I'm not saying that-but they're also touchy as hell.”

— J.D. Salinger

“It's hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.”

— J.D. Salinger

“When they argue, there can be no danger of a permanent rift, because they're Mother and Daughter. A terrible and beautiful phenomenon…

— J.D. Salinger

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO LOVE AND KISSES CHALES”

— J.D. Salinger

“Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.”

— J.D. Salinger

“He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the…

— J.D. Salinger

“The Navy guy and I told each other we were glad to've met each other. Which always kils me. I'm always saing…

— J.D. Salinger

“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for…

— J.D. Salinger

“Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you…

— J.D. Salinger

“I glanced past her and behind her, furtively, at the fifth passenger-the tiny elderly man-to see if his insularity was still in…

— J.D. Salinger

“Tell you what we'll do," she said. "We'll drive to town and get some pickles, and some bread, and we'll eat the…

— J.D. Salinger

“Think how practical, pleasant, and thrilling it would be if one could open one’s mouth, from time to time, and something other…

— J.D. Salinger

“Where before we Comanches had simply stared at her femaleness, we now glared at it. She smiled back at us. It was…

— J.D. Salinger

“But the thing is, you raved and you bitched when you came home about the stupidity of audiences. The goddam unskilled laughter…

— J.D. Salinger

“Did you ever get fed up?" I said. "I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy…

— J.D. Salinger

“A lot of schools were home for vacation already, and there were about a million girls sitting and standing around waiting for…

— J.D. Salinger

“It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking…

— J.D. Salinger

“Teddy looked at him directly for the first time. Are you a poet?' he asked. A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas,…

— J.D. Salinger

“Then all of a sudden, this tear plopped down on the checkerboard. On one of the red squares – boy, I can…

— J.D. Salinger

“When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the…

— J.D. Salinger

“I knew her like a book. I really did. I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports, and…

— J.D. Salinger

“I'd be the catcher in the rye and all.”

— J.D. Salinger