I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.
I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in." Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not him though... "What the hellya reading?" "Goddamn book." He shoved my book back with his hand so that he could see the...
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door." ( : CCXVII, March 31, 1945)
... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think
Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.
Life a game, boy. Life a game that one plays according to the rules." Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right-I'll admit that. But if you get on the side, where there aren't any hot-sho...
People always clap for the wrong things
One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you're saying something that sounds like me. You sort of take it as an accusation of piracy...
This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that.
The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's concei...
Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap they have in cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post and all, showing guys on street corners looking sore as hell because their dates are late - that's bu...
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're sort of stupid,you fall in half in love with them,and then you never know where the hell you are.Girls.Jesus Christ.They can driv...
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're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
If somebody at least listens, it's not too bad." ~ Holden Caufield
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
All mothers are slightly insane.
I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, maturity and craftsmanship critics are looking for, and too little of the glorious imperfections whi...
