Quotes For The Catcher In The Rye Novels & Stories

“Because I want to be your friend, and I’m not taking no for an answer.” I had a feeling he wasn’t going to listen to me no matter how much I argued, and there were only 10 more minutes before my next class. “What nonsense were you talking about earlier?” I asked. He frowned. “It’s a quote from the book.” He pointed at my book. “How many times have you read this that you memorized quotes like that?” I asked in pure shock. I didn’t ever remember him reading back in high school and he still didn’t strike me as the illiterate type.

She cleared her throat, over-enunciating as though performing Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre. “Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind… it’s fire, and it burns everything it touches.” She looked at me expectantly, starry-eyed. I wanted to slide under the table and melt into the floor. Was this real life? Was I being forced to quote my own tortured prose like a trained parrot? “Um.” My voice cracked. “Yes, that… that does sound like something I wrote.” “It is!” another boy shouted. “Page two seventy-three, right after the betrayal scene! I highlighted it!”

He uttered as he glimpsed at me. "Isn't it too late for that? We're married already." "I disagree. Haven't you heard the quote by Mitch Albom? There is no such thing as too late in life." "Oh, I just heard it now." I was amazed. I didn't expect that a man like him would believe in quotes. "Now, you know." He grinned. Then, we became silent again. After a while, I took the courage to bring up the incident earlier. I turned to him as I wanted to see his reaction. "Alfred, about the trouble earlier."

So, he remembered a quote he used to cite when he was a teenager, and had pushed a bully down the stairs after he picked on a new kid. Raphael was sent to anger management afterwards, where one of his 'assignments' were for him to find a quote or saying that he believed matched how he felt most of the time. Now ten years later, it seemed fitting. His intentions were somewhat pure, yet the lasting effect of the whole situation was scary.

He carefully attached it to my charm bracelet and said, "Now it's perfect." The gold charm that he gave me was a small drum set and had the words 'Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears' engraved on the back. It was one of my favorite quotes from Great Expectations and I was really happy that he decided to put together two of the things that I loved. "Adrian, this is too much but...thank you. I'll always wear it." I wanted to hug him but I stopped myself and simply tried to avoid looking him straight in the eyes. I didn't know where else to look so I panicked and unintentionally met his gaze in the process. We ended up staring at each other for a long while and neither one of us

she moved closer to him and clasped her hand over his, “I am telling you my favorite quote because it applies to you Nathan. I have seen you so many times put yourself down because you are blind but I want you to know that you can do much better, you don’t have to beat yourself up everyday because you can’t see, you are still the Nathan that the world knows and the world awaits more from you” “Babe…” he whispered but he could not get the words out of his mouth, he wasn’t expecting her to do this for him, this was the first time and it was beautiful. “Should I tell you another quote from the book?” “Hmmm” he nodded, “i really want to hear it” “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the fa

“What? Noooo. It’s a quote Sigmund Freud used in the beginning of his book The Interpretation of Dreams. It translates to: 'If I cannot deflect the will of heaven, then I shall move hell.'” Kate keeps looking at Ms. Perfect with bug eyes and her lips set into a thin slit like she has just bitten off a piece of green tamarind. She wasn’t off the mark when she thought this was an Inquisition and Ms. Perfect had been possessed. Perhaps, after a month and about a dozen days, Ms. Perfect has finally lost her composure and seen that Kate is a lost cause. Kate has daydreamed countless times that Ms. Perfect had a secret lever that she would pull, opening a trapdoor under Kate’s chair and sending he

Veronica's POV: 'Love is not what you do... Love is what you are... Love never tests you... it embraces you...' I swear that I must have heard this quote somewhere on I*******m a while ago... now I totally understand the meaning of it. I dropped my phone onto the mat beside me and started walking toward the waves, my steps unsteady, dizziness washing over me as a memory from my past rose uninvited in my mind. Chase was standing across from me, fury blazing in his eyes. On the table beside me lay a neatly folded stack of laundry.

She gave Chrissie a quick hug and scampered out of the room. Chrissie stared at the words on the page. The first thing that popped out to her was, "Tom Barrett, an American politician, said, 'If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?' It is not the act that fosters a sour attitude, but the perception of that act." The perception of that act. Had she been perceiving her life as something other than it was? That she ignored how rotten she'd become, and when she finally realized, she snapped, hence her loss of memory, a way to start anew?

ZARA “That’s what people do when you stop explaining yourself. They fill in the gaps with their own fears, their own projections. But I don’t owe the world every chapter before it’s written.” She took a breath then, slow and deep, as if centering herself. ZARA (CONT’D) “Sometimes people try to rewrite your story for you. But I’ve learned—I hold the pen.” The room stilled. Even the sound engineer behind the camera leaned forward slightly. That line landed like thunder. The host gave a knowing smile. SADE “That part. That’s the quote.” Zara smiled too—but hers was quieter, as if she already knew the sentence had wings.