Madison Rae > Madison's Quotes

“Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That killed me.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.”
― 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 that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them. It was really nice sightseeing, if you know what I mean. In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them. When they got out of school and college, I mean. You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring— But I have to be careful about that. I mean about calling certain guys bores. I don't understand boring guys. I really don't.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.”
― 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 with them a couple of times, but I cut it out. In the first place, I don't enjoy seeing him in that crazy cemetery. Surrounded by dead guys and tombstones and all. It wasn't too bad when the sun was out, but twice—twice—we were there when it started to rain. It was awful. It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place. All the visitors that were visiting the cemetery started running like hell over to their cars. That's what nearly drove me crazy. All the visitors could get in their cars and turn on their radios and all and then go someplace nice for dinner—everybody except Allie. I couldn't stand it. I know it's only his body and all that's in the cemetery, and his soul's in Heaven and all that crap, but I couldn't stand it anyway. I just wished he wasn't there.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It’s history. It’s poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“If a body catch a body coming through the rye.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“How old are you? I asked her.
"Old enough to know better." she said.”
― J.D. Salinger , The Catcher in the Rye