Quotes

Here are the quotes you can chose from for this test...remember you have to prove to me that you have read the book. Make sure you give me a lot of details and that these details span the entire book. Also dig deep with the quotes...don't just summarize what the quote says.

2.  I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it. ~J.D. Salinger, // The Catcher in the Rye // , Chapter 1

4. 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. It's terrible. ~J.D. Salinger, // The Catcher in the Rye //, Chapter 3

6. All morons hate it when you call them a moron. ~J.D. Salinger, // The Catcher in the Rye //, Chapter 6

8. 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 //, Chapter 13

10. Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. ~J.D. Salinger, // The Catcher in the Rye //, Chapter 15

13. 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 //, Chapter 21

14. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and // catch // them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." ~J.D. Salinger, // The Catcher in the Rye //, Chapter 22, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield

16. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger, // The Catcher in the Rye //, Chapter 26

18. "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect." 20. "You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."