Quotes For The Catcher In The Rye Novels & Stories

Once again, I felt her looking at me, like she wanted to ask something but chose to stay quiet instead. After a while, I spotted a small café along the road and pulled over. “I bought some food earlier. We can bring it inside,” I said. “Okay,” she replied shortly. I grabbed the plastic bag of food and we both stepped out of the car. A large sign greeted us at the café entrance: “Sip your coffee, pour your feelings.” I couldn’t help but smile. Even at the entrance, there were already emotional quotes everywhere: “Even when you’re struggling, don’t give up. That’s how it is when you’re the main character, you lose at first.”

“You?” She glanced up as thought thinking. Then in a soft but yet certain voice, she said. “He really had been through death, but he had returned because he realized he had not yet finished living.” There was this passion in her eyes as she quoted the line that it made the hair on my arms rise. I’d never met anyone like her…that I could actually quote lines from a classic book and would get it. Even in literature class, I always felt like an outsider because nobody felt comfortable with the jock who practically knew the poem by Italian poet Dante, by heart.

My fingertips touched the worn covers, the yellowed pages, the notes he had written in the margins in his slanted handwriting. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” Romeo and Juliet. I opened the book exactly to the page of the quote, as if my hands knew the way. I knew that passage by heart. How many times had we read it together, lying in bed, his head in my lap while I recited Shakespeare and he closed his eyes, a smile on his lips? “Ma’am?” One of the men approached, his voice hesitant. He was young, maybe twenty-something, and looked at me with a mixture of pity and discomfort. “Are you all right?”