Quotes About Catcher In The Rye Novels & Stories

" I think the time to be a big girl is here. I always relied on everyone in this family and I'm scared I might make wrong decisions " "Who said that you're not allowed to make mistakes?" Jaden asked," obstacles are an essential part of life even though it sucks, we can always learn from our mistakes right?" I brought my knees close to my chest, my voice started shaking tears urging me to fall. "I don't want to be a disappointment " "The same hammer that shatters glass forges steel" He quoted." Whatever problem you encounter, can be used to make you stronger" He stood up and came to face me. " Conquer all these fears and take advantage of it "

“You are the only person who has ever really listened without making it weird,” Zack admits, his voice dropping to a lower register. “Everyone else either starts crying or tries to give me inspirational quotes or something.” The wind rustles through a nearby oak branches overhead while they sit in comfortable silence for a moment. “Inspirational quotes,” she echoed. “That is a new one. What like ‘hang in there’ cat posters? Weird.”

He and I turn red in embarrassment, but nonetheless, he turns to me and wimnks an eye with a bright smile. I giggle, glancing at the quotes and sure of who wrote them. I silently turn my body to see him. The smile on my face making him turn red as he averts his sight between me and the teacher. He clears his throat and runs his hands against the side of his pants. "Ahem! Of course." He sighs and stands straight to read out loud. "No matter what happens, enjoy life because you only get one and it doesn't last long. . . . .-Epicurus." He smirks and squints his eye at me, making me roll my eyes and turn to face him.

Then, I decided that no one had the right explanation, philosophy, or theory about what really works in anyone's life. So I decided again that everyone should shut up! "Shut up!" I screamed at Jim Rohn's face on my TV screen and angrily switched it off, throwing the remote away from me. Jim Rohn had been going on and on about the way one was supposed to live an ideal life. What was even an ideal life, anyway? I didn’t have one yet, and I wasn’t sure how it worked. Too many motivational quotes from people I was sure found it just as difficult to put their lives together as I did.

She found Joel still seated comfortably as he bobbed his head to the music in his ears. Shooting him a killing look, she sat on one of the chairs close to the door. The motivational posters of various colours that decorated the sky-blue painted walls caught her attention. And most of them, she observed, contained quotes from famous people. Some she had heard of and some she had read about. "A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt. That one made her smile. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~ Nelson Mandela

“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.” Never in my life did I believe there would be a day when a quote from a comic would relate so closely to me. But recently, I started feeling that the bad days in my life are far more than the good. I was so tired of fighting to keep my sanity. To fight to stay afloat of the sea of misery that was pulling me to its depths with every passing day. I didn’t think I had more strength to swim. I gave up.