BEST QUOTE ABOUT HOLDEN CALLING PEOPLE PHONIES

“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“They’re always asking you to ‘do the right thing.’ But nobody knows what that is anymore. And nobody cares.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It’s really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People never notice anything.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I mean most guys don’t want to talk about their feelings. They just want to go out with you and have a good time.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” – Wilhelm Stekel

“There were tons of people around, but nobody was around—nobody big, I mean.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People always clap for the wrong things.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I hardly even knew anyone there.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I didn’t feel like being social. I felt like being a hermit crab or something.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I am always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People always think something’s all true.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“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 I will.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye BLOSSOMING FRIENDSHIP QUOTES

“Probably my biggest gripe when it comes to people is that they don’t know what they’ve lost until it’s gone.” – Emily Giffin, Where We Belong

“Make-believe is, in fact, something not many people do well. It’s a skill. It can be learned, or lost due to lack of practice.” – Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Nobody loves me. Nobody cares. Nobody bothers to open the door when I knock.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“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 to say I’m going to the opera.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It’s no fun to be yellow. Maybe I’m not all yellow. I don’t know. I think maybe I’m just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn’t give much of a damn if they lose their gloves.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People with good posture know their value.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I’ve never seen so many phonies in all my life. Everyone’s a phony.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I’m always saying ‘Glad to have met you’ to somebody I’m not particularly glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It’s no fun to be yellow. Maybe I’m not all yellow. I don’t know. I think maybe I’m just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn’t give much of a damn if they lose their gloves.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Books are only truly worthwhile if they can be shared and talked about with others.” – David Nicholls, One Day

“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars