She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
("Franny and Zooey")
More Quotes from J.D. Salinger:
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.J.D. Salinger
For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.
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
Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
J.D. Salinger
Oh, I don't know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don't know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.
J.D. Salinger
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.
J.D. Salinger
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Light QuotesThere's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.
Demi Moore
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
Fanny Burney