Reading the Catcher in the Rye

Solitaire makes so much more sense to me now.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

— J.D. Salinger.

I beg your pardon. I love you very much. I’m nuts about you. I know it. I could love you all my life.

J. D. Salinger, "The Heart of a Broken Story" (1941)

And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.

J.D. Salinger

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.

J.D. Salinger

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.

J.D. Salinger

I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.

J.D. Salinger / The Catcher in the Rye

(via GIPHY)

He kissed her coat lapel as though it were a perfectly desirable, organic extension of herself.

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (1961)

And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.

J.D. Salinger

And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey