Holden Caulfield Quotes
16 Holden Caulfield quotes by 9 unique authors
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with…
— Harper Lee
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Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for…
— Tony Kornheiser
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I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to…
— Stephen Metcalf
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I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be…
— Mark David Chapman
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Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.
— Josh Hutcherson
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Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's…
— J D Salinger
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I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You…
— J D Salinger
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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,…
— J D Salinger
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and…
— J D Salinger
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably…
— J D Salinger
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Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused…
— Frank Portman
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Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult†– too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to…
— David Levithan
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I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
— J D Salinger
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I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been…
— J D Salinger
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I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
— J D Salinger
Who Wrote These Holden Caulfield Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 16 Holden Caulfield Quotes as follows: