If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.
("The Catcher in the Rye")
More Quotes from J.D. Salinger:
Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation.J.D. Salinger
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
J.D. Salinger
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J.D. Salinger
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.
J.D. Salinger
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J.D. Salinger
Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.
J.D. Salinger
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Hell Quotes, Place QuotesArt is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
W. H. Auden
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
Junius
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo