“Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“People never notice anything.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.”
― Nine Stories
― Nine Stories
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