📔 The Catcher in the Rye

Quotes from this book

What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it. "Do you have any particular qualms about leaving Pencey?" / "Oh, I have a few qualms, all right. Sure … but not too many. Not yet, anyway. […]" You'd thought they'd taken baths in the same bathtub or something when they were little kids. Old buddyroos. It was nauseating. Some dopey movie actor was standing near us, having a cigarette. I went and got her dress for her. She put it on and all, and then she picked up her polo coat off the bed. “So long, crumb-bum,” she said. He was with some gorgeous blonde, and the two of them were trying to be very blasé and all, like as if he didn't even know people were looking at him. Modest as hell.