“I know. I’m very hard to talk to. I realize that.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love."
I didn't think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false than true, but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny's: it should have been true.”
― A Separate Peace
I didn't think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false than true, but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny's: it should have been true.”
― A Separate Peace
“That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Hi,' he said. He always said it like he was terrifically bored or terrifically tired. He didn't want you to think he was visiting you or anything. He wanted you to think he'd come in by mistake, for God's sake.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“...I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
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