Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they wouldn’t...

I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.

Anyway, I’m sort of glad they’ve got the atomic bomb invented. If there’s ever another war, I’m going to sit right the hell on top of it. I’ll volunteer for it, I swear to God...

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

She gave me a pain in the ass, but she was very good looking.

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...

when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

Çocuk müthişti. Kaldırımda yürümüyordu, ama kaldırımın hemen dibinden, dümdüz bir çizgide yürüyormuş gibi yapıyordu, çoğu çocuklar gibi ve durmadan, “Yakalarsa birini biri, çavdarlar arasında,” şarkısını söylüyordu. Güzel bir sesi vardı. Üstelik, şarkıyı felaket iyi söylüyordu....

That’s the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That’s putting the old foot down. If she’s determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn’t have it...

Why’s it so sunny?” she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. “I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy,” he said.

The thing is, it’s really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs–if yours are really good ones and theirs aren’t. You think if they’re intelligent and all, the...

That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may “think” there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up...

The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She’d say, ‘And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story...

All these handsome guys are the same. When they’re done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

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...

God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!

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...

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s impossible.

Stop that!” Do not mention this when you answer his letter, however. It is quite controversial and Mrs. Mandell is a poet besides.

Phoebe’ye “Little Shirley Beans” adlı plağı almak istiyordum. Çok zor bulunan bir plaktı. Plak, iki ön dişi düştüğü için çok utandığından evinden dışarı çıkmayan küçük bir kız çocuğu hakkındaydı.

All mothers are slightly insane.

Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.

Come All Ye Faithful” like mad. Big deal. It’s supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can’t see anything religious or pretty, for God’s sake, about a...

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

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...

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

We’re freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I’m a twenty-five-year-old freak and she’s a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting...

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if...

In my mind, I’m probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Basketbol takımındakiler birbirlerini tutuyor, Katolikler birbirlerini tutuyor, lanet entellektüeller birbirlerini tutuyor, Ayın Kitabı Kulübüne üye olan herifler bile birbirlerini tutuyor.

I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn’t do it. I can’t always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I’m sort of an atheist. I...

But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody’d written ‘fuck you’ on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little...

Life is a game, boy. Life is 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,...

While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people and strangers; it is too risky and inhuman; also the consequences...

… 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

Give me an honest con man any day.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

Look at ’em,’ he said. ‘Goddam fools.’ ‘Who?’ said Ginnie. ‘I don’t know. Anybody.

Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

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...

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, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable...

I didn’t want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

Her neyse, atom bombasını keşfettiklerine çok memnunum bir bakıma. Yeni bir savaş olursa, gider bombanın tepesine otururum. Bunun için gönüllü giderim, yemin ediyorum.

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...

We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.